cdr wrote on Jun 15
th, 2012 at 11:07am:
FVS with favor is dumb easy. There's more than 4K favor in the game and more on the way in the xpack, all you have to do is run some stuff on elite. I get to 3K favor sometimes on TR lives if I'm soloing a lot and not grinding as much.
Arti on the other hand is way, way too painful. Rest runs challenges all the time with probably the best challenge group on the server, of course it's easy for him. There's no way you can solo challenges to 150 without a ton of practice so for me that would mean hours upon hours of trying to pug challenges for stars. Fuck that, I got maybe 3 six stars and gave up.
Unlocking Artificer:
Elite completions on flagging raid quests: 57 favour
Normal MA and LoB completions: 14 favour
5 star most non-epic challenges: 50 favour
2 star shortcuts/disruptor: 4 favour
1 star all epic challenges: 9 favour
This puts you at 134 favour and challenges at this level are generally soloable.
The last 16 favour gets harder, I got it by doing hard completions of MA and LoB. MA hard with no trap disabler was fucking hilarious.
Generalisations here, I got more epic stars on some quests and didn't bother with others, ymmv.
Definitely soloable by anyone who's figured out that they can use the WASD keys to move/strafe and the mouse to look around. Doable by many builds but obviously much easier with some.