well for awhile there you could get legendary drops from the token turn in  - so guildies were buying up tokens to get the cheapest items from desert seller & using them to buy renown - haven't seen any drop there since maybe u9 though

Ah, I suppose getting several guild members all "buying" guild renoun through Sands turn-ins could be considered exploiting.

I was also wondering about this post when I saw it on the offical forum. Be interesting to see if they do anything about the guilds who are excessively farming renown this way.

Seems to me back when there was another renoun exploit discovered right after the system first came out, a few guilds got their hands slapped by Turbine for exploiting the renown system in a way it was not intended.

Of course, it is also in a large part Turbines fault for both the crappy coding regarding renown tokens, and then also not bothering to fix it. I have known forever that you can get renown tokens when turning in runes for DT, and for the Agents of Argonnessen favor reward. Both obviously not intended to be there.

I am quite sure there are a lot of other instances as well were renown tokens show up where they are not supposed to be.

Will be interesting to see what becomes of this. My money would be on that they will just quietly fix it, and say nothing about it at all.

On the plus side, now may be a very good time to sell all those tokens I have been hoarding 

It's really unclear atm. We all know they were exploiting some how as you can't have jumped that far in reknown that fast, small guild bonus and drinking guild xp pots or not.  For a while they were also doing reaver refuge turn ins, and from that method you can have all the members of your group pass you those runes you get in reaver refuge chests to turn in for guild reknown over by the crafting altar.  Still really doesnt explain their massive jumps in guild reknown as clearly indicated in the guild reknown horse race thread on the official forums. All I have ever seen their leader or members admit to in a public forum was irestone inlet chest farming, desert tokens (back a few months ago), and RR token turn in. Guess Zonixx got word of it.  Like him, it doesn't make me a happy camper when the rest of us work legitamtely hard at getting and keeping reknown, but that thread is just going to get closed come Monday.  My bet is there is no way Turbine can prove whatever exploit they are using and don't want to take the PR fall for banning a guild without good grounds to do so. But who knows, maybe Ill get surprised, rarely happens but it does happen.

Look at the thread below, the guild horse race thread, and scroll down to the sarlona guilds, and you wil see the spikes I am referring to. You will also notice another spike in another guild, this spike may also correlate with a certain member leaving the one guild where he very likely learned the exploit, then used it in this other guild before leaving that guild as they also spiked out of nowhere but have since remained at the normal growth curve like the rest of us.

http://forums.ddo.com/showpost.php?p=3933001&postcount=218

Dozen_Black_Roses wrote on Aug 7^th, 2011 at 9:41am:


Rebellion and Reunion have some sort of creepy relationship with each other. Whatever Rebellion is doing, they admit that Reunion is part of it.

Thread closed on the forums - maybe something to this?

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Well,  your first step is to get your evasion casters into Rebellion, or at least Reunion.  You "qualify",  I hear.