Farming Faction: Kurzik or Luxon

[Xu Kaiwen]

Lets make this thread our place to post tips on farming faction.

Here's my first meager contribution: Farming for Kurzik faction outside of Lutgardis Conservatory. The idea is to get a group of runners and repeat the quest "Securing the Forest." You get 2k experience, 400 kurzik faction, and 150g for completing it.

Map:


You must run to 4 points: B = The bridge. W = West shore of the lake. S = the stairs. M = Giant Mushroom

The group is usually 3 people or more. Since you will get point W automatically on the way to points S and M, no runner is dedicated to W. But usually points S, M, and B each get at least one runner. When a runner reach one of those three locations, they will call, BD or "bridge down" telling his teammates that his objective has been reached. (SD = stairs down, MD = mushrooms down). Once all four locations have been "downed," then everyone in the party gets themselves killed, rezzes back at the entrance rez shrine, gets the reward for the quest from Scoutmaster Arne, zones back into Lutgardis, and repeats the quest. Doing this can net you 4-5k kurzik faction in an hour.

Note: most people will not talk to the Scoutmaster until after the quest is completed.
Note: Make sure you die closer to the ressurection shrine on the west side of the map than the one on the east side of the map if you do the bridge part of the run. (i.e. run back across the bridge)

Build Tips: rangers, assassin, warrior skills work best for this. You can use a secondary of these classes, too. Just make sure you can be under a constant speed boost. The monk skill "holy veil" is very useful as you can deactive it (double-click on the holy veil icon in your maintained enchantment bar) and remove "crippling anguish," which is easily the biggest threat in the run.

Just join a "ff" (faction farm) group in Lutgardis Conservatory. If it is a larger group, you won't have much weight to pull as the pros will be off and running before you know what is going on. Just follow them until you get the hang of it.
I'll let Adam post more tips on this, as he's much more experienced in this run than I.

[Drac]

Ok I (Drac The Quick, W/Mo) plan to be here tonight (pending lawn mowing) or tomorrow so feel free to holler at me if you want another runner. and if we can get 8 people even if only 3 of them run that is (8*400=) 3200 faction for our alliance.

Also the one across the bridege is only a problem if they are the lst to die. I would say keep one person at the start of the mission and have them die after everyone is already dead.

[Xu Kaiwen]

Short little update:
You can actually farm up to 9-10k faction in one hour, depending on how good your group is. If a group advertises saying, "lf FF group (chests only on the way)" it is a good sign.

If you do the math, you can sell 10 amber for 16k right now... that's some serious $$$. Or, if 8 alliance members can get together, they can farm 70k+ faction in one hour.

I believe assassins are very good runners, perhaps better than w/mo's (surprise!). Though I don't have an assassin, I asked a fantastic a/r runner for his build: storm runner/dash/shadow refuge/dark escape/shadow of haste/shadow form/troll/rez sig. This assassin made me look like a slug wearing concrete shoes.

And there is a faster route than the one that runs up to the West Lake shore location:

I only suggest it for those runners that are better than I.

[Draco]

Note on the better route: If you do this route, then you still need to swing by the NE shoreline. I also got a couple of Sup runes and some other asst goodies from chests.... Some of the other runners got some excellent chest drops! if I didn't have to attend to some RL issues I could've scored more than the 8k faction points!

Xu is correct. The assasins and an ele/ranger were knocking the socks off everyone. The Ele used a water build Frost Armor/Mist form with a Storm Chaser.... he usually had to take his armor off to die... I saw at least 12 baddies on him and the only thing that gave him damage eventually was the poison from the Kirins!