The Spirit Realm

Howling Stones should be pretty good for your pair ... make a few gate potions if your SK can't get himself out of there.

The Hole is awesome xp ... your SK might be able to buy the key or double shrink FTW.
The SK also should be able to get the via for convinient gate.

As stated above, I'm finding that the Hole is good xp, but I'm running out of slowable mobs at an appropriate level in there. SK has the key, as the double shrink isn't enough for large (Ogreish) races to get in - too fat. Thanks for the contribution, though.

Aye - this faction is for the Worker Sledgemallet quest, which results in a hammer that procs Gate to OT. I am reluctant to damage this faction because it will hinder using this as an effectively free gate to a safe location from anywhere, and without positive faction, I cannot redo the quest and sell the resulting hammer to other melees or get one for guildies (these chars are on Firiona Vie, so this is both possible and profitable, as it is a largely faction based quest)