so who here actually is rank 5 with little duck and how much hair did you pull out by just getting there

[Yanderia]

EDIT: to alleviate confusion im pointing more towards rank 2 and 3 where you ahve to grind gyros and atmos only through boutnies with a painful drop rate.

literally jsut farming profit takers for weeks and the rewards from the bounties come too slow and in small amount for the requirements for little ducks ranking up


legitamately thought there was nothing worse than cetus wisps but ♥♥♥♥ me sideways the atmos, gyros repellers ssytems all just too much bullcrap for one syndicate

[Archwraith]

I just ran a few exploiter orb during its release and got there pretty easy. Especially with double reward.

For the rank up requirements, I ran bounty 2 a few times and got lucky I suppose, so not quite stressed out.

[Talekith]

I reached rank 5 yesterday.

Probably took me bit more than a month in total in order to get the right miscallaneous parts (gyros, repellers, systems) from bounties in order to rank up enough for me to start buying them with standing. The rest was pretty easy as I was just using my 60 Lazulite toroids (from exploiter orb) which give 12k standing each, buying all the extra parts for ranking up etc.

Getting to through the rank 1-3 was the hardest part since you have to rely entirely on mission drops.

[Swiper]

I owned all items from little duck, including all R3 arcanes by January I believe. you can get exploiter orbs and max daily standing in less than 30minutes without boosters.

[Pakaku]

20 minutes of Exploiter Orb, two times to cap the daily standing I can get, and all of a sudden Fortuna actually seemed feasible for once

That said, all the toroids in the world cannot help with those horrendous rank-up sacrifices that require those three items which only drop from pure RNG...

[Wintermute]

It was allright, especially when double-drop events came. Definitely beats focus-farming Eidolons. Got somewhat lucky with systems though.

[Kawalorn]

Yes, because of double drop coinciding with Exploiter Orb first coming out, it was super easy to get her to rank 5.

[No_Quarter]

Easiest syndicate level up in game by far with Solaris United trailing a bit behind it.

Profit Taker and Exploiter Orb push this level up to insane level of standing gained per time played so I legit have not felt either of them. You play for 1 hour and you have enough standing for about a week depending on how efficient you are.

[Tigerlight]

Rank 5 for ages now.
You do know the Lazulite Toroid from Exploiter is 12,000 Standing PER, yeah? Crizma from Profit-Taker is 6,000? With a Resource Booster you get 2? That's up to 24,000 Standing on a single Exploiter run.
Not even necessary to "farm for weeks". I don't see how you can't be max Rank with Vox, frankly.

[BurlsoL]

Biggest tip for any faction gaining is to get your MR as high as you can stand to get it first. Doing faction grind with less than 12k daily faction gain takes twice as long as at MR 24 no matter how many missions you run.

[AnimusReborn]

Originally posted by Tigerlight:

Rank 5 for ages now.
You do know the Lazulite Toroid from Exploiter is 12,000 Standing PER, yeah? Crizma from Profit-Taker is 6,000? With a Resource Booster you get 2? That's up to 24,000 Standing on a single Exploiter run.
Not even necessary to "farm for weeks". I don't see how you can't be max Rank with Vox, frankly.

the problem isnt the standing itself, thats easy as getting debt bonds. the problem is the sacrifices itself to rank up. it needs a lot of those miscellaneous items along with the toroids requiring you to do more than one thing just to get the privilege of even ranking up. Im not even max rank with vox solaris, only rank 1 because getting those fifteen-♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ gyro systems for just one rank up is insane, i tried so many bounties yet i only have 5. and since the bounties are the same and not randomized like every other bounty there is it gets boring rather quick.

[[88th] ColPresumptuous]

Been rank 5 for quite a while now (about 5 months i think).

Just ran profit takers and exploiters (exploiters helped since it was a less annoying fight and you get twice the standing reward for it)... granted im MR27 which helps alot with any rep grind.

I also spent a lot of time pre orbs farming toroids.

[LondorPaleShade]

hmm hunt taht exploiter orb taht ♥♥♥♥ cost 2x than prottaker toroid

[Yanderia]

Originally posted by Tigerlight:

Rank 5 for ages now.
You do know the Lazulite Toroid from Exploiter is 12,000 Standing PER, yeah? Crizma from Profit-Taker is 6,000? With a Resource Booster you get 2? That's up to 24,000 Standing on a single Exploiter run.
Not even necessary to "farm for weeks". I don't see how you can't be max Rank with Vox, frankly.

more so the fact that I have run the bounties for 4 days straight on 16 hour sessions a day and not seena single atmos systems drop which is required for rank 3

[Kiwimaru]

Originally posted by Awooke:

more so the fact that I have run the bounties for 4 days straight on 16 hour sessions a day and not seena single atmos systems drop which is required for rank 3

Well don't disagree with you on that front. Its a hella annoying to get atmos for promotion but on the plus side after that it gets extremely easier because you can straight up buy the systems.

[Hawk]

I think it was the most painful syndicate requirements in the entire game bar none, I was not able to do the initial Profit Taker fight when they first released it so I missed out because I was busy with all of the other farming and leveling up. RNG based requirements, RNG based or event only cash (Torids from Exploiter Orb). Again DE made all the wrong decisions with Little Duck's sub faction because unlike the Quills, you do not come by Torids all of the time, they only drop after some heavy farming and even then you'll only see a hand full at most in my experience. Then to top that all off the Torid requirements to level up is just awful.

Some here will say “Quills were too easy” well apparently the world and life in general are just too easy but to me even at the time when I had nothing but time on my hands it required FAR too much. If they do another faction like this in the future or just “new” factions in general I hope that they go back to how the Quills were or better, we don’t need MORE farming in this farming only game (apparently because that seems to be all that DE cares about other then money).