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The
Five ZP Entrance Quests
Akessan
Faction Quest
Honor Faction Quest
Zaoran Faction Quest
Betraying Sides
ZP Loot Table
ZP Quest Armour Statistics
ZP Gems
ZP Abilities
By Morynn
Zaoran Plateau, the Plane of War, is the latest zone for EQOA; it opened during the winter of 2006.
ZP is another zone, like IoD, or PoS. All Five agent quests must be completed in order to gain access to the zone. Once you've completed the quests, you head to Lake Rathe (c), speak with the Portal Guardian, pay the 5k tunar and go through to zp. Smell the free air - this is the last time your faction will be neutral for all 3 groups at the same time!
Once in ZP,
you're faced with a difficult choice. In order to gain access to different
tiers of the zone, you'll need to chose an alliance. You'll chose between:
The Soldiers of Rallos Zek
(the Zaorans);
The Crusaders of Mithaniel
Marr (Honor); or
The Akessan Collective
Read more about the three gods here.
Gaining access to different tiers allows you to complete hunt/gather quests
that reward some pretty cool items/CM upgrades, and to gain access to
raid mobs. Note: it is now possible to be coh'd into a tier 2 raid,
without having the required faction, but should you loot a reward item,
you can't realize the benefit of it until you complete the required faction.
This allows more toons to raid, yet immediately rewards those who have
done the work.
In order to decide who to align with, look at the rewards the different factions offer you (abilities/armour); also consider which way your guild went. It's pretty tough to progress if you've allied yourself with, say Honor, and your entire guild went Zaoran. And don't panic, you'll be switching sides later on, so no worries if you're not initially happy with what you picked (more on this shortly).
So now that
you've chosen a side to ally with, note that you will have maxed negative
faction with the other two alliances. Now, you'll want to:
* complete the entrance faction quest given to you by your npc
* achieve 2k faction. Farm the opposing side's mobs to get NTL
weapons to trade in for faction; 4 faction per weapon.
* complete the armour quest by farming the opposing sides mobs
for 12 specific gems; (ie. if you are Honor, you will need six different
gems from Zaoran, and six different gems from the Akessans. 4 gems appear
to be common drops, 4 are uncommon, 2 rare, and 2 are ultra rare). Turning
in the gems nets you the armour. You can now obtain an insignia that will
show that you obtained all 6 items - you simply have to show Lt. Jenkavs,
Lt. Ugmar, or the Akessan your six armor items after completing the requirements
for the current faction you are working on. In the future, you will simply
have to show that insignia to get past any armor collection requirements
if you change factions (Insignia can be kept in bank vs. inventory)
* once you have the 2k faction, you can complete the ability quest
(parchments drop fairly often).
When you've completed everything for the side you're on, you are flagged to move forward to tier 2 mobs. Time to switch sides! In order to gain access to all the islands all you need is 2/3 factions completed; you're welcome to do all 3 for the spells/armour if you think it's worthwhile.
To switch factions, just log the quest with the opposing side - the faction you just worked so hard to gain will now be reduced to -2k. At this point, your faction with all 3 will be max negative. Then, start working on getting your new alliance faction up to -350 to log your new entrance faction quests, and quests for armour and abilities. In the past, betraying caused some lock outs during raids, if this is a problem for you, seek out Fdak of Zek, Humarin of Marr, or An Akessan mystic.
Note: until you've passed your new alliances entrance quests, you can only turn in weapons at a ratio of 1:1 faction. Once your faction is up to -350, and you log and complete the alliance entrance quest, the faction will revert to 4:1.
Detailed
information proved by Lanaz:
The Honour Guard NPC that you need to talk to is Syla of Marr, she lets
you BETRAY and is located in ZP (C) next to another NPC named Humarin
of Marr. She will state "For each four of the same type you bring back,
you'll earn favor with the Honor Guard" . . . so you'll be able to turn
in Akessan weapons to her to gain HG faction. Remember, once you betray
you will be KoS to everything . . . and ZP will be a very hostile environment
for you.
March 14/07
You can now regain faction (up to 350) with Marr's Chosen, Akessan Elders,
and Warlords of Rallos Zek by turning in various items to the commanders
and the Akessan High Elder.
Raid Port
Stone Npc Charter:
Akessan the Defector: is for Marr and Zek
Defector of Marr: is for Zek and Akessan
Zaoran Rebel: is for Akessan and Marr