the quest to pick up mushrooms is pretty quick. 500 faction to get 20 mushroom

Thanks for the info.  My monk is an orc too

Last night i grinded away at it again... did the mushroom quest once... started working on the forgotten ring  quest (which gives no faction btw) and also picking up tomes and runes from the ruins.  The mushroom quest is good xp but its best to pick them up while doing other things.

One thing i found is that I am not getting 20 faction for the named mobs (at least outside VT), just 2 like normal.

I also discovered there is swords in the ruins you can touch one time for faction too... I dont know if they each have their own set number, but i found the more swords (of fallen soldiers) i touched the more faction they would give...So i got 20 faction for the first 3 or so , 40 faction for the next two and then 80 faction for the last one... I am still looking for more swords   I also discovered a very nice yellow martial sword that gives 15% parry.

I found another quest (which I have yet to complete) from a guy towards the southwest of the moon town.  It is to slay 30x alive wolfs and 15x spirit wolves.. I will let you know if it gives any faction when i finish.

I also received new quests at about 1000 faction and 2000 faction from both the ranger town in the swamp and the main town.

Its been taking me about 3.5 hours to get 2k faction.

Thanks for all the info. I out leveled this quest on my main way back when, and am looking forward to doing it with an alt or two. Probably my monk being one of them

The shuriken quest is a lot easier to do at lvl 50, but you could do it at 37 with help from a group.  The main thing is you need to get 12k full faction to start it.  The best way to do this is to do the mushroom collection quest in the Ruins of Vol Tuniel chunk.  You get the quest from the ranger camp in the southern portion of the chunk and you run around collecting 30 mushrooms at a time from all over the chunk.

Keep all quest armor pieces that drop for you because you can turn those in for faction, pre-upgrade, or motes while you do the upgrade quest (save em for the motes, 20 pieces should do).