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Jena Year 2603 Patch (Patch 3.5.0 - 2019-05-18)

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OK -- How does one earn Faction Points under the new system? Fame and dappers can be had from the Corporal missions, but what about Faction Points?

The only thing I use them for is recharge of enchantments, but during a Boss fight, they can be crucial to success.

Package delivery quests and PvP. The first of which takes at least an hour for not that many points and the latter of which is hard to do on a level that can sustain you with crystals, unless you make an alt of the opposite faction, train it up to max level and then farm it for points.

I personally love that the NH finally doesn't have a maximum on products so we don't have to ride it a million times to hand in, but the cost at which these changes were made, that I can't agree with. Though I'm mostly upset about the way and the reasoning behind it.

As for reasoning, the only thing I see from the community has been veteran players complaining that the game is "too easy". For old timers who are multimasters and have millions of dappers in their pockets, maybe. But for newbies? Not a chance. The change is mostly just inconvenient for me personally since I'm fortunate enough to be a part of a decently large guild that can take care of me, but not everyone has this luxury. A low level free to play homin who just started now faces a massive time sink of either wasting hours on a faction run (that they might not even be able to complete due to heavy aggro in high level zones) for very few cats, or grinding levels at half the speed. Grinding doesn't make the game more difficult, or more engaging. I could get behind maybe experimentally nerfing the faction point rewards but removing them completely is harsh.

And lastly, I really, really don't like the fact that it wasn't even mentioned in the patch notes. It's probably a small oversight but it *feels* like it's excluded in order to make it a sneaky nerf as not to upset the people who don't know it yet.

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