The Unofficial Guild Wars Gold Guide-chapter002
The Unofficial Guild Wars Gold Guide
(requires Guild Wars: ‘Factions)
transfer the faction points to it in order to increase your alliance’s prestige.)
Once you reach the point in Guild
Wars: Factions at which you are allowed to join the Luxons or the Kurzicks in their fight against the other faction, you will gain access to special PvP missions called Alliance Battles, which award faction standing with your chosen group as a reward. For example, each kill your team scores on enemy players in the Jade Quarry battle is worth five points Luxon or Kurzick faction, and each victory earns you 3,500 faction. These faction points can be redeemed at special NPCs (Luxon Scavenger or Kurzick Bureaucrat) to receive various rewards. One of those possible rewards is a rare crafting material associated with making armor for your chosen faction: Jadeite Shards for the Luxons and Amber Chunks for the Kurzicks.
So, even though this trick is situational,
it can be very nice to have some of these crafting materials on hand just in case someone with too much money on his hands decides to go into the trade channel and say something like, “WTB Ambers, paying 2.8k for each.”
These rare materials cost 5,000 Luxon
or Kurzick faction apiece. However, depending on demand their value in trades with other players may grow very high. Even during times when the market has a good availability of them, you can usually sell them to the rare material trader for 330 gold or more. That may not sound like much, but if you do lots of Alliance Battles and need to save as much gold as possible, it can add up. (If you are in a good guild/alliance, however, you will probably just want to