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A reference for Hardcore Factions: mechanics, classes, events, factions and history.

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What is Hardcore Factions?

You claim land, build a base, gear up, and fight other factions for control of the map. Every death locks you out of the server for a while, and the whole world gets wiped when the season ends. Those two rules are the deathban and the timed map, and everything else follows from them.

→ Read the full overview

Players Every player recorded on this wiki, from the golden era rosters to the foreign scene. Names link to individual pages where they exist. → Browse all players

Factions Every faction documented here, with rosters, map results and rivalries. See Faction tiers for how they were ranked against each other. → Browse all factions

Citadel The event that decides the map. It is a fortified KOTH with pearling turned off inside. Four run per map, one a week, and whoever takes the most is treated as having won the season. → Read about Citadel

History Where the format came from around 2012, the golden era of 2013 to 2018, why the community refused the 1.9 combat update, and what happened after that. → Read the full history

Classes Your armour set decides what you can do in a fight. Diamond, the frontline. Best armour, no abilities. Bard, buffs your team and debuffs theirs using energy. Archer, tags people at range. Rogue, speed and burst damage. Miner, night vision and haste underground.	Events Scheduled fights are what keep a map busy between raids. Citadel, the one that decides the map King of the Hill and Conquest Start of the World and End of the World End portal control Map archive, past seasons and results Fight archive, past teamfights and results
Mechanics Deathban, why dying actually costs you Factions and Claiming Cooldowns Glossary, every term you'll hear in chat	Community Notable factions, every faction recorded here Faction tiers, how factions get ranked and why people argue about it Servers, the networks people played on PvP techniques, comboing, blockhitting, potting Rules and punishments How to edit this wiki

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