Faction Vendors: Are they worth the badges?

Hello everyone, ever since my badge questing with Kelsey Fireheart yesterday, that got me thinking: Is the badges really worth the faction vendors? To that I ask myself 2 things, How do they benefit me and What are the costs to get an item such as this. So here are the things that I listed below based of the two things.

To really consider these faction items is asking if it benefits you at all. Several items in both equipment and housing are indeed very useful to get such as the Faction Mounts which require you to have the Badges "Dunes Warrior" which requires defeating 50 djinn and the faction based badges of defeating 50 of X. Say for example for the serpentine, the mount displayed below requires us to get both Dunes Warrior and Serpentine Scout.

 

That will require us not to only defeat 50 Djinn but to also defeat 50 Calixco guardsmen/women in Rubal Wastes and that is not a easy challenge since most of the Djinn are balance and well they typically spam loremaster while the guardsmen try to one shot you with a backdraft, I was able to do these requirements under 2 hours. This is an amazing way to get new mounts without resorting to using Micro-Transactions to get the mounts. Keep in mind that Dunes Warrior is required on every faction mount so if you want it, you have to defeat 50 djinn.

Moving on to housing, if you really love decorations of a certain faction then go on and buy it but the certain item I wanna talk about are the tapestries that are sold throughout mirage. These tapestries require you to get a higher rank meaning defeating 100 of X. So again, going back as serpentine we discover there's a tapestry to Istanboa, however there is a higher badge for you to do this time around. Luckily it doesn't require a secondary badge like with faction mounts.

This single badge though requires you to defeat 100 Calixco Guardsmen/women so that you can buy this. I really say this is something that is worth investing in if your a tapestry master. 

My Final Thoughts

Mirage is quite an interesting world in general and is the first world in a long time that really gets you involved but that's besides the point. The point here is that the faction vendors are indeed worthwhile if it benefits to your cause such as new styling of carpet mounts or tapestry to certain areas of mirage for your novices. I'm not sure whether or not you guys care about faction vendors but I do have a feeling we will have an expansion on this soon in other worlds.