Faction farm

Faction farming is a form of farming in which players repeatedly complete certain tasks to gather faction.

Rewards of faction farming

The three different kinds of faction generate different rewards:

Type of Faction	Rewards
Balthazar Faction	•Zaishen Keys. •Unlocking weapon upgrades, runes, and skills for PvP use. •Tournament Tokens.
Kurzick Faction	•Raise alliance faction. •Obtain Kurzick allegiance skills. •Amber Chunks. •Passage Scroll to Urgoz's Warren. All of these choices add points to your Kurzick allegiance rank.
Luxon Faction	•Raise alliance faction. •Obtain Luxon allegiance skills. •Jadeite Shards. •Passage Scroll to the Deep. All of these choices add points to your Luxon allegiance rank.

Farming faction within the Kurzick and Luxon territories

For Luxon and Kurzick faction, there are several areas that players can go to farm faction. These are:

• Alliance battles
• Competitive Missions: Fort Aspenwood and The Jade Quarry.
• Challenge Missions:
  • Altrumm Ruins and Amatz Basin for the Kurzicks.
  • Zos Shivros Channel and The Aurios Mines for the Luxons.
• Killing Level 20+ foes in Echovald Forest and the Jade Sea while under the Blessing of the Kurzicks/Luxons
  • Vanquishing areas in the Echovald Forest and the Jade Sea.
• Doing repeatable faction quests. Their equivalent are

Kurzick	Luxon
Duel of the Houses	The Jade Arena
In the Army Now (Kurzick)	In the Army (Luxon)
Kurzick Supply Lines	Luxon Supply Lines
Scouting Ferndale	Scouting Maishang Hills
Securing Echovald Forest	Scout the Coast

Fast faction farming

Current Methods of Fast Faction Farming
Kurzick Faction Methods
Morostav Trail speed clear (MTSC)	Utilizes a party that splits to quickly vanquish Morostav Trail for Kurzick faction. The run will give ~22,500 Kurzick faction and takes around 5-12m to complete, depending on the experience and setup of the party. Using this method alone will require ~223 runs to complete the Kurzick Title, and is easily obtainable in a single Double Week. Kurzick MTSC FFF Guide on PvX (Outdated Tactics) Kurzick MTSC Tripway Guide on FBGM
Luxon Faction Methods
Mount Qinkai speed clear (MQSC)	Utilizes Vow Of Strength Dervishes to quickly vanquishing Mount Qinkai, starting from Aspenwood Gate. With an average party, faction rewards can come anywhere from 10,000-11,000 a run and runs take 2-7 minutes depending on number of players and experience, and can be done with as little as 2 players. The quest A Favor Returned can be used to greatly reduce the number of enemies in the instance for faster runs, although it is not required. Using this method alone will require ~480 runs to complete, and is easily obtained in a single Double Week Luxon MQSC FFF Guide on PvX.
Balthazar Faction Methods
Zaishen Elite speed clear	Based on 2-3 Ranger Trappers and 1-2 Ritualist and/or Elementalist finishers. Traps are laid down by the gates while the timer is running down, and then the turtling party waits until the foes run into the traps. The finisher kills off any remaining foes with trappers laying more traps around the dying npcs. A "full run" is usually 16 rounds (or 20-30 minutes) to gain the maximum of 6,000 Balthazar faction. Using this method alone allows Non-PvPer's to achive Zaishen rank 3 within 167 days for the purpose of Hall of Monuments Reward Calculator. Zaishen Elite FFF Guide on PvX

Historical Methods of Fast Faction Farming
Kurzick Faction Methods
Amatz Basin	The December 11, 2008 update made this run impractical. Parties are usually 4 perma-sins, 3 warriors, and 1 monk. The perma-sins will tank the enemies to keep aggro off the refugees and the others will use speed boosting shouts such as "Charge!" to speed their evacuation.
Drazach Thicket speed clear (DTSC)	This run fell out of favor due to better rewards per hour from MTSC. It uses four teams, each with one 600HP tank and one smiter to quickly vanquish Drazach Thicket for Kurzick faction, starting from The Eternal Grove. The run will give, on average, 17,000 Kurzick faction and takes around 13 to 20 minutes with an experienced party. Kurzick DTSC FFF Guide on PvX (archive) GWGuru Guide TexMod map layer to help learn the routes
Securing Echovald Forest	This quest was affected by the November 13, 2008 game update and this method is no longer possible. This was the easiest and most popular FFF method in the past. It involved running to four points in Melandru's Hope which could be accomplished simultaneously by four runners or by flagging heroes and henchmen to the points. The update changed the quest, requiring you to defeat the enemy spawns at those points, so a quick run is no longer possible.
Luxon Faction Methods
The Jade Arena	This run fell out of favor due to better rewards per hour from MQSC. This run starts from Breaker Hollow or Jade Flats. It involves repeatedly completing the Jade Arena quest by killing the foes that spawn in the arena. Luxon Jade Arena HFFF Guide on PvX
Maishang Hills speed clear (MHSC)	The March 11, 2010 update made this run impractical. It was also based on 600/smite groups in combination with a runner in order to farm Luxon faction at Maishang Hills in Hard Mode, starting from Eredon Terrace. With an average party, faction rewards could come anywhere from 14,000-17,000 a run and runs took 9-14 minutes.
Scout the Coast	This quest was affected by the November 13, 2008 game update and this method is no longer possible. This was the Luxon counterpart to Securing Echovald and was accomplished in the same manner, running to four points in Mount Quinkai which could be accomplished simultaneously by four runners or by flagging heroes and henchmen to the points. The update changed the quest, requiring you to defeat the enemy spawns at those points, so a quick run is no longer possible.

See also

• Speed Clear

Notes

• Double Jade Quarry and Fort Aspenwood weeks will allow you to get double Imperial Faction from win and losses (in addition to double Balthazar Faction and Imperial Faction fom kills), which can then be converted at any moment to Luxon, Kurzick (1 imperial => 1 luxon/kurzick) or Balthazar (3 imperial => 1 balthazar) faction.
• Double Faction Support weeks will allow for double points toward the two titles from all sources (except storybooks).