Age of Conan: Rise of the Godslayer Preview
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The biggest hook in Godslayer is the faction system, which best illustrates the concepts of choice, consequence, and combat. You can join a faction and enjoy all its benefits and rewards (armor sets, friendships with certain factions) but at the same time risk making enemies of another faction. You need to be level 80 to join one, but can start earning points for them at earlier levels. In some cases you can belong to more than one faction.
The faction system to some degree affects your interactions with other players when grouping with them in PvE, or fighting against them in PvP. NPCs from your faction will help you but attack your group mates if they're from an enemy faction. In fact, if you help a player from an enemy faction, your NPC friendlies will aggro on you as well. (However, mobs in instances and raids belong to no factions and will attack anyone.) Ditching your old faction also holds consequences. Not only will you lose all perks from your former faction, but you'll have to work hard in gaining your new faction's trust.
