Faction farm

Faction farming is a form of farming in which players repeatedly complete certain tasks to gather Faction. The type of tasks done depends on the type of faction being farmed.

Farming Faction with the Kurzicks/Luxons
The main purpose of this type of farming is to amass Faction with the Kurzicks or Luxons. Faction farming is commonly practiced by members of an alliance trying to increase their Alliance Faction with either nation.

For each side, there are a few areas that players go to farm faction. These are: Kurzick faction farming allows an alliance to gain control over a town on the map of cantha, should your alliance gain the most faction you gain control over the capital House zu Heltzer and with it access to the Urgoz Warren the elite mission. Luxon faction farming works the same way but the eventual goal is the luxon capital Cavalon and also has an elite mission called The Deep.
 * Competitive Missions: Fort Aspenwood and The Jade Quarry.
 * Challenge Missions: Altrumm Ruins, Amatz Basin, Zos Shivros Channel and The Aurios Mines
 * Alliance Battles
 * Repeating PvE quests over and over. This tends to be the fastest way, but also is targeted by ArenaNet to tone down the speed by which players can gather faction. One of the best current examples of this is the Kurzick Securing Echovald Forest quest; see Lutgardis FFF team build

Farming Faction with Balthazar
Some players farm faction with Balthazar mainly for the purpose of unlocking weapon upgrades,runes, and skills for PvP. Some players farm faction with Balthazar simply by partaking in all sorts of PvP matches.

However, others farm it using PvE. This is mainly done in the Zaishen Challenge mission on the Battle Isles. Doing this challenge over and over rewards faction like a regular PvP match but is faster with the likelihood of losing being very slim.

Note: Farming using the Zaishen Challenge has a cap of 2,000 faction per day.