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Faction

Faction shows your allegiance to the Kurzicks or Luxons. You accumulate points based on accomplishing various tasks (such as quests or bounties) or competing in relevant PvP combat. You can spend accumulated points for some uncommon items or skills.

Unfortunately, spending faction points from one group costs you the same amount of faction from the other. Also, there is a cap on the amount of faction you can earn. Therefore:

• Always spend faction accumulated for one allegiance before farming for the other.
• Always spend faction before reaching the cap. (Whenever possible, raise the cap.)

Farming Kurzick vs Luxon Faction

Category	Kurzick	Luxon	Notes
Quests	quests in Echovald Forest	quests in The Jade Sea.
Competitive missions	the Jade Quarry and Fort Aspenwood
Challenge Missions	Altrumm Ruins and Amatz Basin		Zos Shivros Channel and the Aurios Mines
Alliance Battle	(same)
Killing mobs while blessed by faction priest	Blessing of the Kurzicks	Blessing of the Luxons	The respective priests are typically near portals. Costs: 100 or 150 (depending on if you share allegiance or not)
Killing Monsters	in Urgoz's Warren	in the Deep
Vanquishing	in Echovald Forest	in Jade Sea
Zaishen Bounties or Zaishen Missions	tbd	tbd

Faction rewards

Kurzick faction can be trade to Kurzick Bureaucrats and Luxon faction to Luxon Scavengers.

Category	Faction Spent	Title Points	Kurzick	Luxon	Notes
Guild Donation	5,000	10,000	You must have more faction in your guild's allegiance (and, obviously, you must be aligned with the relevant side)
Buy Rare Materials	5,000	5,000	1 Amber Chunk	1 Jadeite Shard	Value = ~77–170/1000 faction
Buy Passage Scrolls	1,000	1,000	Urgoz's Warren	The Deep	Value = ~130/1000 faction
Skills	3,000	6,000	Kurzick skills	Luxon skills	You must be L20 and have at least rank 1 in the relevant title.
Quest completion	0	0	Befriending the Kurzicks	Befriending the Luxons	Does not cost faction, but requires a minimum total be gathered.

1. Always buy the relevant Allegiance skill: you get access to some great skills and you always get double-faction.
2. If your goal is maxing the title, always donate to your guild (double-faction).
3. If your goal is maxing income, then carefully review both scroll and rare crafting material prices at their respective traders. Amber is usually a good choice; jade is sometimes a bad one.
   • Value scrolls at about 125 per 1000 points of faction. (The least you would get is 100; the most is 150)
   • Amber generally costs more than Jade to obtain. Over the last 12 months, the Rare Material Trader prices have been:
     • Obtain amber: 675–850 or 135–170/1000-points-faction. Sell to other players: 115–160/1000-points
     • Obtain jade: 435–650 or 87–130/1000-points. Sell to other players: 77–120/1000-points.

Raising Faction Cap

When you start the game, each account is limited to gathering 10,000 faction. This cap can be raised to as high as 70,000 through various loyalty acheivements.

Achievement	Cap Increase	Kurzick	Luxon	Notes
Befriending	10,000	Befriending the Kurzicks	Befriending the Luxons
Missions	7,000	Arborstone, The Eternal Grove and Unwaking Waters	Complete Boreas Seabed, Gyala Hatchery, and Unwaking Waters	only once per account for each group
Defeat core boss	10,000	Urgoz	Kanaxai
Challenge Mission	1,000	Altrumm Ruins, Amatz Basin	Zos Shivros Channel, The Aurios Mines	Score at least 100 points
Competitive Mission	5,000	Fort Aspenwood, Jade Quarry, or Alliance Battle		win match for your guild's allegience
Rank 1	5,000	Friend of the Kurzicks	Friend of the Luxons
Additional Ranks	1,000	"	"