Does the faction you choose, affect account or character

In my other posts i seen most ppl pick Luxons, but i'm not sure that if Faction is character based or account-based?

I think Faction is account based like guild

If you are in a Guild, the Guild chooses what faction they are going to be in. And since any character on your account is in the Guild, it would be a safe bet to say, your faction affects your entire account.

since it is safe to assume that many people are not in a guild i think it would be account based so that someone couldnt simply split their pve characters both ways.

luckily i have 2 accounts

You can be in a different faction than the rest of your guild.



And yes it is account based.

can you jump back and forth? Or is it one chance to decide only?

That is a very good question. I can see oh x controls this special zone, switch, wait, now y controls this other zone swtich. I'm also wondering how anet is going to handle this.

I do agree with everyone and go with the guess that all your characters on your account is going to be linked, same as with guilds.

...alrighty I now have to go read more... I didn't understand much of this thread...

Would it be possible to pay a large sum of money you switch teams? You could have like a recruiter somewhere in the game recruiting people for the other faction. You pay him ‘X’ amount and he/she will grant you safe passage to there city of whatever. Besides people are always saying that there are too many people with so much money. Well maybe that’s the answer….

Therefore you can’t just switch back and forth when ever you feel like it, you would have to save up and maybe that would make people want to choose and stay with there particular faction.

But forgive me if I’m wrong. From what I have seen so far I believe that most people are going with the kurzaks. Just encase I have the name wrong or the wrong faction I mean the group of people that have giant robot ships or something….. What will Anet do with the overwhelming numbers on one side? (assuming I’m correct. but either way one side will out number the other at some point) So with any luck I hope its character based. So I can have different characters on different factions….

To the best of my knowledge, players will be able to choose their faction (they will not have to be in the same faction as their guild) and it will be account based.
We will also have the ability to change factions.

I would think that the easiest way to switch factions (for those in a guild) is to change guilds, and since I can't see Anet stopping ppl from changing guilds, I don't see how they can stop anyone from switching factions.

If you need safe passage, maybe your new guid can come and get you.

It has been said that there will be a point where characters can cross from Cantha to Tyria, and only Seitung harbour has been mentioned, so I'm thinking that at least this city will be neutral. If so it would also provide a safe place to go to switch factions.

I would guess (like?) the factions would be more like the secondary profs - character based and only change-able after advancing very far into the game. It would be silly otherwise. What if I want my warrior to follow Balthazar yet want my necro be a Grenthist? And yes switching sides at whim would end up very unbalanced with everyone flowing to the winning faction.

Ishmaeel, no one has said how easy it will be to change faction, only that it WILL be possible.

We're talking here about the Luxon/Kurzick factions in GWF that determine who controls what parts of Cantha. I haven't seen anything that says these will be related to Balthazar faction.

No, Sylver, you are right, there will be no bonuses/professions related to the factions. It may be that the different factions worship different gods though.

Gaile said that the guild you are in will have to choose a faction as a group. You cannot be a different faction than your guild. I can go scanning through the Frog Talk forum at GWO to get the exact wording, but I'm 99% positive that if your guild is a Luxon faction, then you have to be as well - or find a new guild.

agreed, in a galie chat, awhile ago she made mention that you will be able to chage your faction, but that it wont be as easy as changing your secondary profession, like it is now.

Well, I could not remember the names of the factions off the top of my head, so I made them up as examples. And sure, nobody said it would be easily switchable.

My main point was that I would like the factions be character-based, not account-based. But of course, that's just following the vague idea that is formed in my head about what the factions may be and how they may work. I'm imagining something like the sides in Anarchy Online or something. GW system may turn out to be totally different, of course.

Edit:
If changing faction will not be as easy as changing secondaries (re:heavy metal rules), then it follows that it should not be as easy as changing guilds (re:antialias02) either, no?

PostEdit:
I seem to remember something like that (from the online manual or the web site? I don't recall): "Right now, it is only possible to win faction for Balthazar (referring to Faction points earned in PvP) This fact may change with future expansions." That's why I made the connection between factions and gods.

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It will. This log says a couple of things things.

1) Your guild alliance guilds will all have to be members of the same faction.
2) Your characters will all have to be of the same faction. And the reason Gaile gave for that is....

...because they're all part of the same guild. Hence, faction is most definitely tied to guild. Best example I can find on the spur of the moment, but she mentions it more than once.

Guild leader choses which faction. Jumping from faction to faction, maybe, might even be limited. We dont know yet we can only guess and speculate. We may get to find out when the PVE weekend comes.