Allegiance rank

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Allegiance rank
Campaign	Factions
Title type	Account

Allegiance rank is a term for a pair of title tracks: the Friend of the Kurzicks title track and the Friend of the Luxons title track. They are earned for your account through the transfer of Kurzick faction or Luxon faction. These titles can be displayed in the "Honor" monument from tier 4 onwards.

Kurzick:

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Rank gained by helping the Kurzicks in their battle against the Luxons.

— In-game description

Luxon:

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Rank gained by helping the Luxons in their battle against the Kurzicks.

— In-game description

[edit] Faction allegiance title track

Tier	Rank names	Faction transferred	Faction cap increase
1	Kurzick/Luxon Supporter (1)	100,000	5,000
2	Friend of the Kurzicks/Luxons (2)	250,000	6,000
3	Companion of the Kurzicks/Luxons (3)	400,000	7,000
4	Ally of the Kurzicks/Luxons (4)	550,000	8,000
5	Sentinel of the Kurzicks/Luxons (5)	875,000	9,000
6	Steward of the Kurzicks/Luxons (6)	1,200,000	10,000
7	Defender of the Kurzicks/Luxons (7)	1,850,000	11,000
8	Warden of the Kurzicks/Luxons (8)	2,500,000	12,000
9	Bastion of the Kurzicks/Luxons (9)	3,750,000	13,000
10	Champion of the Kurzicks/Luxons (10)	5,000,000	14,000
11	Hero of the Kurzicks/Luxons (11)	7,500,000	15,000
12	Savior of the Kurzicks/Luxons (12)	10,000,000	16,000

Benefits

• At level 20, upon gaining the first rank (Kurzick or Luxon Supporter), the following skills, which scale in power with Allegiance rank, become available from a Kurzick Bureaucrat or a Luxon Scavenger for 3,000 faction points each:

The Kurzick and Luxon versions are considered separate skills, however you cannot simultaneously equip both a Kurzick skill and a Luxon skill.

• The first rank increases the faction cap by 5,000, each subsequent rank increases it by 1,000.

[edit] Acquisition

Transfer the respective faction points to either a Kurzick Bureaucrat or a Luxon Scavenger. Faction points can be transferred in several ways (shown in table below). Depending on the method used, the number of faction points transferred does not correspond with the amount gained towards the progress of this title track.

1. You must be in a guild with allegiance to the appropriate faction in order to transfer faction in this manner.
2. You must have at least rank 1 with the appropriate faction and be level 20 in order to exchange points for skills.

Unlike other reputation titles, faction points you earn don't count directly to the title. You must earn the faction points, and then transfer them. You have a maximum initial capacity of 10,000 unspent faction on your account, which can be increased as you progress through Factions. Any further faction you earn after reaching the cap is wasted, so it's advisable to spend the faction before that point.

The faction can be earned by:

• Completing quests in the factions' respective regions.
• Fighting in Alliance Battles
• Fighting in the competitive missions Fort Aspenwood and The Jade Quarry
• Playing in the faction's challenge missions or elite missions
• Through kills after receiving the blessing from Kurzick or Luxon Priests (getting Blessing of the Kurzicks and Blessing of the Luxons respectively). In the use of blessings, this title has some synergy with the Vanquisher title.
• Completing the Arborstone, Boreas Seabed, Gyala Hatchery, Eternal Grove, and Unwaking Waters missions the first time per character.
• Bribing the priest of the opposing faction to activate a resurrection shrine.
• Vanquishing zones in the Jade Sea or Echovald Forest. The faction type corresponds to the zone (Kurzick for Echovald Forest, Luxon for Jade Sea).
• Completing certain Zaishen Bounties, Zaishen Missions, or Zaishen Combat quests.

[edit] Recommended point farming

• Alliance Battles
  • Alliance battles provide a pretty fast way to gain faction.
  • Receive 7,500 Kurzick and 7,500 Luxon faction from Zehnchu after winning 2 Alliance battles with the Alliance battles Zaishen quest in your quest log.
• The Jade Quarry
  • With 3,500 faction a win, this is an extremely effective way to gain faction, allowing for a donation every 15 minutes, depending on the player's team's skill.
  • Receive 5,000 Kurzick and 5,000 Luxon faction from Zehnchu after winning 3 battles with the Jade Quarry Zaishen quest in your quest log.
• Echovald Forest (Kurzick faction)
  • Arborstone (explorable area) provides a relatively easy run to kill the four Stone Guardian bosses there, to reap the boss bounty under the Kurzick blessing.
  • Duel of the Houses is a repeatable quest in Drazach Thicket. A strong team can complete this in a few minutes and it is fully hero/henchable. Frozen Soil is recommended to make things go faster as opponents all carry Resurrection Signet.
  • Amatz Basin is a challenge mission south of Mourning Veil Falls. A perma-assassin team of three can tank all the wardens coming from each direction and divert their attention away from the Kurzick refugees running past to a portal. (Gives 1 Kurzick faction for each NPC who makes it alive and 50 faction for every 10 people.)
• The Jade Sea (Luxon faction)
  • The Jade Arena is a repeatable quest in Archipelagos. A strong team can complete this in a few minutes and it is fully hero/henchable. Frozen Soil is recommended to make things go faster as opponents all carry Resurrection Signet.
• Vanquishing
  • Combined with priest blessings, you effectively earn 70 faction per kill (plus boss bonuses), easily resulting in gains of about 17,000 faction from a complete vanquish. Speed clearing Drazach Thicket is a popular method of Kurzick faction farming. Speed clearing Mount Qinkai and Maishang Hills are the Luxon counterpart for faction farming.

[edit] Notes

• Allegiance skills' green numbers cover a rank range of 0...12
• The maximum faction cap for either faction is 70,000
  • To see how to raise your faction cap, see either Kurzick Faction or Luxon Faction (depending which allegiance cap you wish to raise)
• For title skills, allegiance rank translates to effective attribute rank as follows:

• With Signet of Illusions, you can get an effect higher than max rank if your illusion magic is at 16

[edit] Trivia

• The Zaishen title track uses the same title prefix for every rank but the last tier.
• If you were to do just Jade Quarries, each round taking a maximum of 15 minutes, you would have to play for 357 hours, assuming you won every time getting you at least 3,500 Kurzick/Luxon faction each round.
• If only using Shiro's Return to max the title, it would take 83 full Hard Mode books and 1 full Normal Mode book.
• Vanquishing an area with 400 enemies including 4 bosses and then donating it to the guild increases the title by 58000. You need to vanquish that area around 172 times to max the title.