Merged: Now that you've played, Kurzick or Luxon

You should be able to, as long as you do a faction dump in-between. As in, spend all of your faction from one sice and have the other side's faction dropped to zero in the process, effectively giving you a clean start.

Is the faction quests going to be tied to what side your guild leader chooses? If so, this would prevent sabotage from those scummy Luxon freaks.

Luxon, I didn't even go into the Kurzick Areas, I was totally blown away by the Luxon lands/sea, I also enjoy the vibrant nature of the towns. But ultimately, I can't stand religious zealotry. So Kurzicks are out of the question.


Schodai, kosh-ko-dae! :: Rise, that victory may be ours!
~A Luxon Battlecry

You could get 10k luxon faction in 20 minutes in the pe. The Luxon area, while more colorfull is way easier imo, and they are just scums. Seriously, if you did the quest where you are supposed to fight Kurzick elites in an honourable battle, you would be a true Kurzick.

I didnt really care about the Luxon first, but after doing the same quest on their side, I totaly dislike them now. They are like an angry lowlife mob yelling "kill them, kill them"....

Luxon sucks.

Kurzicks are baby-killers. See Gyala Hatchery.

So naturally I'm leaning towards Luxon.

Granted, I didn't get the chance to play the Eternal Grove mission, so I don't know what's the story on the Kurzick side. I've only made it as far as the Laviathan Pits on the Luxon side and Lutgardis Conservatory on the Kurzick. From what I've seen, Luxon land is much more lush and lively. Kurzick territory was just... dark, except for that area with the bright purple sky, that was nice. And the enemies are harder. I've also fought on both sides for Fort Aspenwood and the Jade Quarry, but those can go either way.

"while colourful is way easier imo, and they are just scums"
..your logic seems somewhat unusual.....


" Seriously, if you did the quest where you are supposed to fight Kurzick elites in an honourable battle, you would be a true Kurzick."
again ..your logic seems somewhat unusual..... this reply is not a flame of any sort, just i don't get the points you are trying to make..


"I didnt really care about the Luxon first, but after doing the same quest on their side, I totaly dislike them now. They are like an angry lowlife mob yelling "kill them, kill them"...."
Have you ever seen or participated within a major war (in terms of real life- e.g. paintballing, mass online wars, and watched war films?)
if you did you will see that if an ally see's an opposing side approaching their terrority people will yell "kill them" (or something similar), it's not like they going to walk up to them and invite them home for a lunch and watch tv then duel it out in the sand box in their backyard.....

your logic seems somewhat unusual.....

Anet deserves a lot of credit for making two factions that are so well balanced in terms of appeal. It looks like each will manage to draw a lot of people. Also, this faction system may do a lot to make people care about the game world and storyline. Look already at people arguing over the morals of the two groups.

My guild decided to go with Kurzick, but we tried a lot of Luxon stuff too. I hope that in the final release there are quests that send you into enemy territory, because the jade sea was beautiful, and I would hate to never get to see it because of my faction choice.

Well, I'm leaning towards Luxons, although I found both areas enjoyable.

I played Luxons first, and only played the Kurzicks for a little last night, but I was struck by how Hostile the Kurzicks were to me! I even had to bribe someone to use their res shrine, even though I had no Luxon favor (new character), and I had a little Kurzick faction. Also, I liked the costumes of Luxon better, along with the turtles and awnings moving in the wind, the Luxon camps seemed much more ALIVE.

I must say, I found the Kurzick quests much harder (I gave up on the Black Moa quest at about 10:30 pm last night, figured it wasn't worth it because of the reset anyway). I did like the monsters better in the Kurzick areas, they looked much more alien and diverse than the creatures in the Luxon area. (Although I liked the new monsters from each area).

All in all, I just can't wait for the official release...

I think we'll be able to go to both areas, worse case scenario, you'll just have to spend all your Faction of one side to start with a clean slate (can someone confirm if this works?)


EDIT: Just realized, I never actually checked my Faction last night, I bet my new Character had carried over Faction from Luxons, and that's why the Kurzicks distrusted me...

I'm not keen at all on having to go with the faction my -guild- chooses, vote or not. I'll probably end up leaving if I have to go to Luxon.

Though I played both sides, I found that I enjoyed the Kurzick zones and NPCs a tad bit better. I think I might pick up a 2nd Factions account to play the Luxons though.

I'm still not sure what my guild will go with; but for me, personally, its Kurzicks all the way!

Faction is account-tied. I found this out while working on my builds over the preview event.

Luxons have a great environment to run and fight in, plus you gotta like those gigantic turtles and it reminds me alot of the little islands of the South China Sea. However, while the Kurzick environment look creppy with harder quest and mobs (Dragon Moss seem to eat Assassins for lunch), the community seemed to be more cooperative over the course of the event.

Quest-wise, I have to say Luxon, but for the player community, I have to say Kurzick. I'll have to see what the guild will go with next month.

After having played both sides...

Luxon win 55%:45%

yes, Kurzick have these fascinating gothic buildings and that wonderful creepy forest...

But... TURTLES FTW!!!

Also, I could feel a lot more comforable having a cool drink sitting on the Jade Sea beach than by attending a Zombie party at House zu Helzer.

I'd have to play kurzicks...
Cos the place looked cool AND i played about 20 alliance battles and kurzicks won 17 ^ ^

Giant turtles with cannons strapped on their backs > boring, gloomy, gothic forest filled with creepy lookin' people.

Arrr.

Charqus...I don't know what your smoking but I've won on average 8/10 of my battles with the Luxons..and I've played hours and hours. Not only that but its a health issue here. The Luxons not only have wicked pwning turtles but are also awesome pirate yahoos from hell... The Kurzicks are a disease religion brainwashing young children to do their bidding! What the hell is with the headresses?!?!

Yarrr!!!

My impression is that Kurzicks are more leaning to the evil side than Luxon but the Kurzick armor is better looking than the Luxon so i'll go Kurzick.

Though I wish they had some towns that werent so dark.

If I could ultimately make my own choice, I'd be neither.

The Luxons are, in my opinion, more like crooneys*/pirate hybrids than cool rebels. I don't really like pirates and they're capital is just way too gypsie-ish for me. I don't have anything against gypsies, but I don't exactly find it cool.
The Jade Sea is, as mentioned, awesome. It looks great and it's not as horribly gloomy as the Petrified Forest. Though I don't like turtles...

The Kurzicks have great buildings and the forest is super cool if it didn't lack "nice" spots as much as it does. My character fits better into this forest, but I still wish for some more clearings with atleast a TAD of sunshine.
Also, I do NOT like the concept of religious zealots and they may be slightly too gothic (eventhough the armor/weapons they have ROCKS, hands down) for me. However, it's just a game so the religion-thing doesn't really get me down and I'm not exactly forced to stay in the gothic capital all the time; I can just travel somewhere else.

The choice will definately be Kurzick with the armor, weapons and badass, albeit gloomy, forest. But I'd rather live in the forest by myself, visiting the Kurzicks from time to time, buying armor and supplies before going to, I dunno, the Jade Sea and visit the Luxons and their turtles.

I must have some commitment problems... I can't even be in a guild without feeling weird. That's why I don't have one.

*Crooneys: I'm not sure if that's the right word AT ALL, so correct me if I'm wrong when I say crooneys are, like, gypsies who try to steal your money while you're looking at a cheap necklace? I have the right word in Danish, but I don't know if crooney is right. Cut some slack

I helped save the baby turtles. Any people that would deliberately try to kill those...

Luxoms all the way.

What they didn't tell you is that they raised those baby turtles on kitten flesh.