This is another bug I have run into which creeped in in the last patch.
Apparently if you complete the Squad Ring Quest currently, you are handed
the ring and also immediately moved to KoS status will all residents of
Rivervale. How the heck do they miss this stuff? Sounds like they either
changed the faction hit for getting the ring, say from 5% to 100% (oops
D'Vinn coder, should been 10%) or they added a faction gain that puts the
faction 'over the top' thus turning it into a negative number. After
telling my bardic friend on E'ci how cool the ring was he finally completed
the quest this morning. He is currently unable to play that character after
immediately dying to Marshal Ghobber and reappearing at his bind point...
Right in front of the PoD in the middle of Rivervale square. Needless to
say the overzealous litle Zorros immediately whacked him again... and
again... and again... before he figured out what must be happening and
pulled the plug. I saw 4 corpses in the Marshal Ghobber room last nite but
thought little of it chalking it up to the usual
W...H "Hail Marshal Ghobber"...A "you hit Marshal Ghobber but he dodges"
syndrome of forgetting to hit ENTER first.
This appears to be a major screwup that has seriously affected quite a
number of characters due to careless coding yet again. I'm certain my
friend has lost at least one level if not more before he was disconnected.
Not to mention the incredible amount of work he put into getting his faction
high enough to get the ring in the first place.
Has anyone else experienced this?
Does anyone have any word on how they are planning on fixing this?

Kitasi
Once more very glad I already have my Squad Ring!