119396-guild-reputation-enhancer-vs-flask-of-reputation-dont-waste-renown

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My guild earned the Guild Reputation Enhancer. Would this work for solo questing? Would I get the 8% boost without running with guild groups?
 
Also, does this stack with the Flask of Reputation for another 8% boost, total of 16%?
 
So far, I have being questing in the Defiles, but I only get 8% using both the Flask of Reputation and the Guild Reputation Enhancer.
 
FINDINGS
Please check posts below, it seems that the Flask of Reputation doesn't increase questing reputation. Very bad discovery! I have spent lots of renown on a useless flask, when instead I had a guild reputation perk. I though they would both stack, but they don't. The guild rep perk is worth, the flask is worth-less.	
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yes, boosters work individual.
You only need the guild group to gain the influence for unlocking them.	
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			The flasks only seem to work on things that you kill to gain rep/xp/influence.  The gains from turning in quests were unaffected which makes the reputation flask worthless as 99% of the reputation you will really want to have is only gained from turning in the quests.	
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The flasks only seem to work on things that you kill to gain rep/xp/influence. The gains from turning in quests were unaffected which makes the reputation flask worthless as 99% of the reputation you will really want to have is only gained from turning in the quests.
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			I'm frequently amazed by how many of the "rewards" in this game for doing things just aren't worth having because they're either not as good as more easily obtained alternatives, or because they just don't fit into the game system properly.  It's as if they've got brilliant teams designing the individual parts and systems of the game, and none of them are allowed to talk to one another.	
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The flasks only seem to work on things that you kill to gain rep/xp/influence.  The gains from turning in quests were unaffected which makes the reputation flask worthless as 99% of the reputation you will really want to have is only gained from turning in the quests.
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As far as I'm aware, the passive boosts and the flasks NEVER stack. I believe my guild tested this for both money and exp and they didn't stack, so I'm pretty sure it's a general thing.
 
I think this is intended. As a guild you make the choice to go for the more expensive upgrade (which is passive and hence better, but requires upkeep) or the cheap upgrade that allows your members to buy flasks themselves but requires constant refreshing by the member.	
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			The Flask of experience atleast works at the same time as the guild enhancer, but quests rewards are unaffected, same with flask of greed for quests, its a bit harder to test it on random kill drops as the money dropped is variable anyway	
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			The Flask of Reputation is useful if you are farming the named mobs for R12 rep.	
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As far as I'm aware, the passive boosts and the flasks NEVER stack. I believe my guild tested this for both money and exp and they didn't stack, so I'm pretty sure it's a general thing.
 
I think this is intended. As a guild you make the choice to go for the more expensive upgrade (which is passive and hence better, but requires upkeep) or the cheap upgrade that allows your members to buy flasks themselves but requires constant refreshing by the member.
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And this... is crap.  Did I just completely miss where on the "reputation boost" flask that it doesn't boost reputation from quests?
 
No, the flask says: Use: Flask of Reputation: Increases Reputation gained by 8% for 4 hours. Only one Flask can be active at a time. 
 
I don't even want to know how much renown I burned buying these flasks when grinding for rep in the endgame zones before I stumbled across this truth.
 
Essentially, at end game (when you have the most renown to burn), there's really no faction aside from the named mobs in R-12 that this benefits (and good luck getting a group organized enough to get more than 1-2 of them). 2500 renown for the flask is not a good bargain.	
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And this... is crap.  Did I just completely miss where on the "reputation boost" flask that it doesn't boost reputation from quests?
 
No, the flask says: Use: Flask of Reputation: Increases Reputation gained by 8% for 4 hours. Only one Flask can be active at a time. 
 
I don't even want to know how much renown I burned buying these flasks when grinding for rep in the endgame zones before I stumbled across this truth.
 
Essentially, at end game (when you have the most renown to burn), there's really no faction aside from the named mobs in R-12 that this benefits (and good luck getting a group organized enough to get more than 1-2 of them). 2500 renown for the flask is not a good bargain.
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Exactly, that's why I made this post, to inform other players not to waste their renown. I am now using flask of experience to cap my EP faster and it does stack with the guild experience perk as well. Otherwise, go with another flask such as speed. Definitely, don't use the flask of reputation.
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