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Faction

Faction in EverQuest represents how much a group of NPCs or creatures likes or dislikes your character. Every NPC belongs to one or more faction groups, and your standing with those groups determines whether they assist you, ignore you, trade with you, offer quests, or attack you on sight.

Your starting faction values depend on race, class, and sometimes deity. These values shift over time through your actions—primarily killing NPCs, completing quests, and finishing tasks or missions.

How Factions Work

Most NPCs belong to a specific faction or multiple factions. When you target them and enter "/con" into chat, you receive two pieces of information:

Their attitude toward you (your faction standing)

Their relative difficulty (combat strength)

Faction standings range from deeply hostile to ally. Improving faction typically requires helping that group or harming its enemies; harming a group usually benefits its rivals.

Some NPCs will not speak to you, trade with you, or offer quests unless you reach a required faction level. Others will attack immediately if your standing is too low. This is called 'Kill on sight' or KOS.

The faction table below shows the faction ranges you will encounter in game.

Standing	Amount	Net	Consequences
Ally	+1100 to +2000	900	- Regards you as an ally.
Warmly	+750 to +1099	349	- Looks upon you warmly.
Kindly	+500 to +749	249	- Kindly considers you.
Amiable	+100 to +499	399	- Judges you amiably. Your pet is set to this faction level.
Indifferent	0 to +99	99	- Regards you indifferently. Sneak/Invisibility sets your faction to this level. Favorable vendor prices.
Apprehensive	-100 to -1	99	- Looks your way apprehensively. Vendors will have unfavorable prices.
Dubious	-500 to -101	399	- Glowers at you dubiously. (Not KOS) Vendors will not deal with you.
Threatening	-750 to -501	249	- Glares are you threateningly! Kill on sight. (KOS)
Scowls	-2000 to -751	1249	- Scowls at you ready to attack! Kill on sight. (KOS)

More Things To Know

Undead will almost always aggro, no matter what the level difference is.
Most NPCs who are low enough level below yours will often not aggro.
Threateningly NPCs will eventually aggro, but may delay for several server ticks depending on your distance.
Sneaking in front of an NPC will improve your chance for avoiding aggro on a server tick.
Scowls will immediately aggro on server ticks.
Sitting negates faction and level advantages to avoid aggro.

Game Mechanics#Faction System and Levels for a breakdown of the different faction levels
All Positive Faction Quests
Faction Guide
Glumf's Spectacular Faction Guide
An Iksar's Guide To Love and Friendship Through Murder
Faction Quests for a list of quests commonly used to fix faction
Faction Tricks for a list of techniques for correcting faction even when your current faction is so low it prevents quest completion
Faction Guide for Playable Races
Significant Factions for a list of factions which have some in-game benefit
Starting Faction Standings for a list of initial faction standings based on race, class, and deity.
Allakhazam's Faction List
Anezka's Faction Guide

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-A '''faction''' in EverQuest is any group of mobs/NPCs that are aligned. There are literally hundreds of faction groups, but "Good" and "Evil" is the most conventional separation. Each player has their own '''faction standing''' with every faction.
-A player's standing is stored as a number, but players cannot see that number: they can only see one of several different faction messages which correspond to certain faction numbers.  The numerical values for changing between different con levels has always been debated (e.g. scowling is -1000 or below).
+===Faction===
+Faction in EverQuest represents how much a group of NPCs or creatures likes or dislikes your character. Every NPC belongs to one or more faction groups, and your standing with those groups determines whether they assist you, ignore you, trade with you, offer quests, or attack you on sight.
-The following numbers are originally based on a [http://www.project1999.com/forums/showpost.php?p=488653&postcount=2 2011 Uthgaard GM post], but have since been adjusted.  They may be incorrect, but should be close to accurate (if not accurate):
+Your starting faction values depend on race, class, and sometimes deity. These values shift over time through your actions—primarily killing NPCs, completing quests, and finishing tasks or missions.
-[[File:P99 faction numline D.png]]
+===How Factions Work===
+Most NPCs belong to a specific faction or multiple factions. When you target them and enter "/con" into chat, you receive two pieces of information:
+Their attitude toward you (your faction standing)
+Their relative difficulty (combat strength)
+Faction standings range from deeply hostile to ally. Improving faction typically requires helping that group or harming its enemies; harming a group usually benefits its rivals.
+Some NPCs will not speak to you, trade with you, or offer quests unless you reach a required faction level. Others will attack immediately if your standing is too low. This is called 'Kill on sight' or KOS.
+The faction table below shows the faction ranges you will encounter in game.
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-== Important Note About Wiki Faction Numbers For Mobs and Quests ==
+===More Things To Know===
-Keep in mind that while the wiki is usually accurate about ''which'' factions a monster or quest will impact, and whether it will have a positive or negative impact ... the specific numbers provided  were taken from a non-classic source.  They are very often incorrect, and usually suggest much larger positive gains, or lower negative gains.
-Since there is no objective way to measure faction numbers without repeating the same quest, or killing the same mob ... ''many, many'' times, it will likely be impossible to ever make all of the wiki's numbers accurate.  However, if a player does research a particular mob's/quest's faction hits, they are encouraged to leave a note about it on the mob/quest page.
-== Faction Messages ==
-Faction 'could not possibly get any better/worse' messages do not exist until Jun2001. [https://project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=410915]
-== Changing Faction ==
-Almost every non-animal monster/NPC (save for [[Beta Neutral (Faction)|Beta Neutral]]) give both negative and positive faction adjustments when killed. For instance, attacking (and killing) [[Orc Pawn (Deathfist)|Orc Pawn]] will yield these adjustments:
-<div class="facblock">
-* Your faction standing with [[Death Fist Orcs]] has gotten '''worse.''' -1
-* Your faction standing with [[Knights of Truth]] has gotten better. +1
-* Your faction standing with [[Guardians of the Vale]] has gotten better. +1
-* Your faction standing with [[Ashen Order]] has gotten better. +1
-* Your faction standing with [[Commons Residents]] has gotten better. +1
-</div>
-Killing isn't the only method for faction adjustment. Most quests give faction adjustment. For instance, completing [[Orc Picks]] yields:
-<div class='facblock'>
-* Your faction standing with [[Freeport Militia]] has gotten '''better.''' +3
-* Your faction standing with [[Coalition of Tradefolk Underground]] has gotten better. +1
-* Your faction standing with [[Knights of Truth]] has gotten '''worse.''' -1
-* Your faction standing with [[Priests of Marr]] has gotten worse. -1
-</div>
-===Other mechanics===
 * Undead will almost always [[aggro]], no matter what the level difference is.
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-===Glumf's Spectacular Faction Guide===
+==See also==
-For those of you who have taken up the factionquest sword, here is an in-depth guide that you may find useful in untangling the spiderweb of factions that this game has to offer. [[Glumf's Spectacular Faction Guide]]. The most comprehensive guide out there!
-===Iksar Faction Guide===
-As an Enchanter, I've always worried about faction. I'm sure Iksar are in the same boat, so I decided to look up every quest I could find that gave '''only positive''' faction hits, and '''no negative''' ones. The now defunct [http://web.archive.org/web/20030325235327/http://www.twenkill.net/anezka/Factions.html Iksar Faction Guide] goes into great detail for Iksars, but it involves a lot of back-and-forth with raising one faction, lowering another, and then going back to raise the faction you lowered.
-Some of these quests require a minimum faction to be able to complete. Some you will not be able to do without killing various groups of mobs (namely, Gnolls, Deathfist Orcs, Kobolds and Aqua Goblins) or without an illusion, a wolf form, a faction-raising spell, a sneak, an invis, or a feign death ''(verify this last one?)''. Before going to do any of these quests, make sure to con the applicable quest NPC and all other NPCs within aggro range using your chosen faction-raising method to make sure you are safe.
-A note of advice from the defunct Iksar Faction Guide: ''When doing quests, I have found out that one can turn in up to 16 items at a time. This was only verified with quest that only have one item to turn in, though. You can hand in 4 stacks of 4 of that item, and you will get 16 faction hits. I have tried with more, but it does not work. I also suggest switching to windowed mode while trading. That way, you will not have to reopen your inventory after each turn in.''
-''The above information does not seem to apply to Green, as no Quest NPC would allow me to attempt to give even 2 of a stackable item and instead said you may only give 1 item per slot.'' - May the 4th be with you, 2022
-== Faction Data ==
-:''See also: '''[[Historical faction tables]]''' for a reference of faction values on other servers.''
-Although there are numerous player derived faction tables floating around the Internet, the actual faction table information is buried in the game executable itself. Other than the introduction of the new Ally faction during the release of Velious, the faction ranges never changed during Classic EQ. The game executable never defines an upper or lower bound for the top and bottom most factions; that is handled server side.
-== See also ==
 * [[Game Mechanics#Faction System and Levels]] for a breakdown of the different faction levels
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 * [[Significant Factions]] for a list of factions which have some in-game benefit
 * [[Starting Faction Standings]] for a list of initial faction standings based on race, class, and deity.
+* [https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/factionlist.html Allakhazam's Faction List]
-==References==
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20030325235327/http://www.twenkill.net/anezka/Factions.html Anezka's Faction Guide]
-* http://www.therunes.net/faction.htm (live ~2002)
-* http://web.archive.org/web/20020618052012/http://forums.castersrealm.com/cgi-bin/eq/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=9&t=004566 (live, May 2001)
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