Effective ways to get up the reputation?

[Nerex7]

What are the most effective ways to do it? I just started another character. My highest so far are 60, two guys around 40 that I will continue eventually, none of these ever got the reputation up particularly high but this time, I wanna get it up to buy some items for my new character.

Any tips?

[Valkez]

Bounty quests, and buy the factions mandate as soon as you unlock it. Mind you that most items you get from factions are soulbound, meaning you can't share them with your other toons, and they also have a minimum level requirement, making it pointless to farm for max reputations on your level 30 toon.

[Rikkore]

Rep farming is a bit useless in normal as you wouldn't be able to equip them anyway.

What I advice is just go through normal difficulty unlocking all the factions then go to elite then try to farm rep there for ultimate difficulty

[Anathema]

Originally posted by Rikkore:

Rep farming is a bit useless in normal as you wouldn't be able to equip them anyway.

What I advice is just go through normal difficulty unlocking all the factions then go to elite then try to farm rep there for ultimate difficulty

I agree.

[Matthew]

The only important ones are Devil's Crossing and Black Legion. The others will come in time just by killing enemies. (You technically get Devil's Crossing rep from killing Cronley but since they are only in on area, you still need dedicated farming to get rep up)

Those are the only two I try to focus on.

[Carl!!!!]

Originally posted by Simply_Divine:

In normal/veteran mode Just play through the game but don't farm for reputation. I'd do the same on ultimate too. The enemies will always be higher on ultimate meaning good faction reputation. And as stated, get mandates from friendly factions and buy some to store in inventory for new builds.

You should be on honoured status with factions, hopefully by end of elite mode. If you play a new build with mandates at the start, you certainly will be.

By the end of veteran, playing through all of AoM content, I'm usually revered with coven, legion, rovers, homestead, outcast (if i opt to side with her), and vigil/kymon. Honored with devil's crossing, malmouth resistance and barrowholm.

[Matthew]

Originally posted by Simply_Divine:

Originally posted by Matthew:

The only important ones are Devil's Crossing and Black Legion. The others will come in time just by killing enemies. (You technically get Devil's Crossing rep from killing Cronley but since they are only in on area, you still need dedicated farming to get rep up)

Those are the only two I try to focus on.

I would disagree. All factions give various resistance benefits to add to rings, weapons, amulets etc and when you get to honoured you can put them on your armour. This is vital for ultimate mode and farming nemesises.

I meant only important for dedicated rep farming. The others max out just by playing through the game. Lots of beasts, undead, and aetherials just from regular questing. Devil's Crossing and Black Legion are slower to max, so more focus on those helps keep their rep coming in as quickly as others.

[Kotli]

Buy the faction rep items on your old character and transfer them to new character now you get +50% or 100% rep from as soon as you reach the stash (you can use MP game to get access right at start). It also make you gain rep from kills before you would meet the faction (useful for outcast and homestead).

[Cthulhu's Email Server]

Originally posted by Matthew:

The only important ones are Devil's Crossing and Black Legion. The others will come in time just by killing enemies. (You technically get Devil's Crossing rep from killing Cronley but since they are only in on area, you still need dedicated farming to get rep up)

Those are the only two I try to focus on.

I think Malmouth Resistance is the most important (Potion of Clarity) then Black Legion and Devil's Crossing. Depending on the build though, Barrowholm and Ugdenbog Coven have some decent modifer powders.

[LotusBlade]

On elite difficulty i am getting like +1200 rep for completing single bounty quest, so it would take just 2-3 hors to max it out if i really would want it. Buuut, to be honest, i completed Homestead, Rovers and Prison by default while just playing story campaign without farming dungeons (by lvl 65 or so). As for new heroes, unfortunatly, there is no way for fast farm. Even if you will buy +100% rep boosters, it will be slow and booring, so just level them up. Most good items will drop from monsters anyway, so its not like you really need to buy equip from any guild shopkeepers.

As for monster reputation - thats the whole other story - you wount max it to heroic (nemesis) by just playing story mode - you will have to grind for many many hours. And i mean MANY. Its better to just hack the numbers... Anyway, the nemesis creatures are hard to find and they grant normal rewards as any other boss does, so its useless to aim for them (atleast thats how it was few years ago, maybe something changed, but i doubt it).

[Nerex7]

Thanks for all the tips guys. The guy I'm currently leveling is a Forcewave Commando, so I guessed some factions have some really good items for that, which i wanted to get in time.

My luck is incredibly (negatively) busted anyway, went for 40 runs on the guy in East Marsh that drops the Mistborn Talisman, I got like 4 or 5 different recipes but not that one. Stacked a lot of Homestead reputation though.

[*Yuki*]

mandates+quests. Some factions also ez to up by killing certain enemies (especially outcast - I've maxed her out on veteran).
Usually you will get everyone (maybe except the ones from fort, forgot their name) to 100% till the middle/end of ultimate.

Overall, the best recommendation there would be "make a character that will be fun to play and beat this damn game". Like really - since my 1st char was a physical tanky warder, it took decent amount of time to force myself to keep playing him and max factions out :/

[Nerex7]

My problem is that I always start over with new characters. It's a lot of fun to try them out and get something started. Most of them are around 40-50, highest been my 62 Conjurer (who started to drop in damage output massively but was busted until 60).

Can't really get myself to beat the game, it seems like it takes a lot of time and endurance

[*Yuki*]

Originally posted by Nerex7:

Can't really get myself to beat the game, it seems like it takes a lot of time and endurance

not really. I've tried to 100% everything (I mean - quests and such) in my 1st run and finished veteran difficulty in about 2 days of clear time (48 hours is nothing for such game, really. Even if you play about 3 hours per day due to lack of time after work/education, its a bit more than 2 weeks). Then started to grind these dungeons, locked with skull keys, got bored, got hurt, was about to make a new character coz felt like my class combo succ (said about it above).

Then remade a build (without even refunding mastery points, since I dont own the DLC yet) and tried Elite. Know what? It really felt like an NG+. I mean - it didnt get HARDER THAN YOU EXPECT, as many people scream on these forums. No - very begining of game on elite is way easier than endgame on normal.

Then I've killed some of bosses and got legendary weapon, so now I have about 20k+ damage (was forced to change my build for a bit again), heal like a madman (totem/ward/whatever it calls + dryad's blessing), have decent AoE (due to primary usage of forcewave). Overall - my boring and useless character got into something close to these, you see on youtube. Thug life.

But, if I've dropped this char and started from zero - I will never knew it. Over and over I could make new characters, looking similar to these OP dudes from videos. Then found them useless (coz in this game gear matters a bit more, than, say, in Torchlight), drop again, start again, get hopeless, uninstall the game and never come back again.