So.. you can buy GWEN faction now?

nunix

nunix

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2005

N/

Looking at the update, it seems that once you've got at least a half-finished handbook or guide, you can just.. turn them in, pay some money, and get faction. For a MDG it's 40k (!!) for a complete guide. Does this mean that once you've filled out one, you can get 40k, in any faction you want, for a measly 1800 gold? As many times as you want?

Senrath

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2006

Halfway between here and there

Advanced Technology [CCCP]

Nope. Only seems to work once.

nunix

nunix

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2005

N/

Sort of confused as to why you'd pay to fill another one out if it can't be turned in. Or can you turn one in to each faction only once?

??Ripskin

??Ripskin

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2006

Mo/

It's for people like me who did the norn preview weekend.

It's also for people who forget their books in their storage.

holababe

holababe

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2006

Goon Squad [LLJK]

Mo/

I've never turned a book in or participated in the preview weekend but I got to take advantage of that.
Got a fresh book, paid my 1.1k and got 20k Asura pts + exp + gold.

Senrath

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2006

Halfway between here and there

Advanced Technology [CCCP]

Quote:
Originally Posted by nunix
Sort of confused as to why you'd pay to fill another one out if it can't be turned in. Or can you turn one in to each faction only once?
Nooo, you can only buy it once.

Darkobra

Darkobra

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

Scotland

Type like an idiot, I'll treat you like an idiot

E/Me

Here's how it works.

If you have finished a quest, but forgotten to take the handbook, the people who originally give you the handbooks will fill it in for you for 100 gold instead. If you HAVEN'T finished the quest yet, you'll be made to do it before you can fill it in either by taking it with you or paying. So there's really no change at all. One way or another, you still need to do the quest.

bilateralrope

bilateralrope

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

New Zealand

Xen Of Onslaught (Xen of the Pacific division)

Here is how it worked for me:

If you have done a quest or dungeon before the GW:EN HM update even with the correct book, you get to pay 100g per entry to add them to a book one time only. I guess this if for people who handed books in under the old system so that the change is sort-of retroactive to be fair to them.

strcpy

strcpy

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2005

One of Many [ONE]

That is my experience also - unfortunately I applied the 20k faction towards a tract I do not care about. Ah well, not the first time I've done something similar and I would eventually get to that tract I suppose.

I even tried having multiple books out and completing it for one of them - you can't purchase the quest for the second book.

You should have known you simply can't purchase like crazy when it costs a little over 1k to get the book and you get a little over 4 back - infinite money!

Good update as far as I am concerned - I find carrying the book an irritation and the money to be no issue. Not to mention finally making it worth filling the books out.

Matrix

Matrix

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2006

E/Me

got my answer