Balthazar Faction

Faction with Balthazar can be used to unlock skills, weapon upgrades and runes for PvP characters from Priests of Balthazar. It is shared between all characters on the same account.

Acquiring Faction
Faction is acquired when your team kills an opposing team member or wins the match. It does not matter if you are dead or alive at the time of the death of an opponent you are still awarded with faction points. The amount of unused faction you can have at any one time is currently capped at ten thousand.

Faction is awarded as follows:


 * Arena:
 * Ascalon Arena
 * Unique kill: 5
 * Victory: 5
 * Bonus for flawless victory: 5
 * Bonus for 5 Consecutive Victories: 5
 * Shiverpeak Arena
 * Unique kill: 10
 * Victory: 10
 * Bonus for flawless victory: 10
 * Bonus for 5 Consecutive Victories: 10
 * Team Arena/Competition Arena
 * Unique kill: 20
 * Victory: 25
 * Bonus for flawless victory: 25
 * Bonus for 5 Consecutive Victories: 25
 * Tournament
 * Unique kill: 20
 * Victory:
 * 100 in early missions
 * 200 in later missions
 * 400 in the Hall of Heroes
 * Bonus for flawless victory:
 * 100 in all missions
 * Guild
 * Unique kill: 20
 * Victory: 500 to 2,000 depending on your guild rating (500 at rating 1000, 2000 at rating 1600)
 * Bonus for Flawless Victory: 100 to 400 depending on guild rating (100 at rating 1000, 400 at rating 1600)

Faction Costs

 * Runes
 * Minor Rune: 1,000 Faction Points
 * Major Rune: 1,500 Faction Points
 * Superior Rune: 2,000 Faction Points


 * Weapon Upgrade Components:
 * Lowest Level: 1,000 Faction Points
 * Highest Level: 1,000 Faction Points


 * Skills
 * Standard Skills: 1,000 Faction Points
 * Elite Skills: 3,000 Faction Points

Skill Availability
Priests of Balthazar in level 20 arenas (Tomb of the Primeval Kings, Team Arenas and Competition Arenas) have all skills for all professions including elites.

Priests of Balthazar in the lower level arenas (Ascalon Arena and Shiverpeak Arena), which are only accessible to PvE characters, do not have every skill. There is a progression as you proceed from arena to higher level arena. By rule of thumb, the Priest of Balthazar in a lower level arena will offer the same skills as the Skill Trainer in the adjacent city. See Priest of Balthazar for details.

Guild Wars: Factions
Guild Wars: Factions will include two new factions: Luxon and Kurzick. It is unclear at this stage whether these will have any relation to the Balthazar Faction mentioned above. These factions engage in a faction "war", in which different guilds of the same faction can form "alliances".