Factions in Skyblock Explained (New Nether Update)

Factions are a pretty key part of the nether update and a part of a long ongoing questline to gain the trust of the two factions the factions work like american politics in the sense that you only have two real options and they’re both nearly exactly the same with

Different branding on one side of the island you will find the piddling barbarians who hate the evil wizards and on the other side of the island you will find the non-specific purple wizard creatures who hate the evil piglens at some point you get to choose which one

You want to pointlessly fight for until the end of time but to get to that decision point you first have to follow l of the nether’s quest line until she asks you which faction you want to join and then a different event will conveniently happen depending on your choice of fashion

If you want to join the pidlin barbarians you have to feed a straight pitch sulfur for some reason and if you want to join the mages you have to give a copy of a maddox bath phone to the wizard dean and then show the queen you

Can always change to another one if you want at any time but this will piss off your original faction and you will have to start all over again choosing a faction also turns the opposing faction into a free edge speed rinder depending on the faction you

Choose you get access to a series of quests as well as 5 daily quests you can do today in repetition reputation you can also gain reputation points through completing short requests from various npcs around your faction’s village and these reputation points increase your reputation level with the

Faction which unlocks new items sold in shops and better daily quests there is also a longer quest line that can be followed by talking to l and this starts with a fun stealth mission for both factions but i won’t spoil this for you and i’ll let you play it for yourself

There’s also an arrow on the right side of the screen that always points towards your objective which makes the quests way more convenient so make sure you follow it i wouldn’t really say either faction is better you have the same benefits for both and at the end of the

Day it’s all a bit of fun after all you can always trash your repetition with your current faction and then defect to the other one really easily at any time