I just need to know how many servers are so fu…ed like Shazzrah, where Horde dominate so badly because population is 3:1 (horde/ally)? Be meat for overpopulated horde make no fun for me, so i probably don’t subscribe for next month. Game is awesome, just people are…
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Most pvp servers are heavily horde favored, and it’s only going to get worse, as people leave their servers, switch, quit and so on…just like you’re about to do because you get ganked non stop by three times more people.
If Blizzard doesn’t address this by offering free faction transfers from horde to alliance on some servers, it’s going to get very ugly soon.
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It can’t get more uglier than people screwing themselves over by causing such imbalances.
Good luck to Horde PvP with 3:1 and growing. All they are soon left with is PvN(obody).
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Horde is sadly the more popular race in classic WoW , many EU servers are occupied by horde, the only thing us alliance players can do is wait for faction balance if it will ever happen.
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All servers as i said countless of times before the game launced.
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Most people played horde because of the advantages of being in numerical superiority, why would they transfer to alliance then?
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If you’re not going to premade, it’s very hard to convince people to go alliance:
-hardiness: +25% stun to resist stuns in addition with the baseline chance = almost 1/3 of stuns resisted, and if I wrote a list of all the stuns that exist in pvp, people would go “ok this stuff is everywhere”
-wotf: completly op against locks, priests AND warriors
-tauren racials: bigger melee range, +5% hp, and an aoe stun
-troll priest: shadowguard is broken as hell
Now add the insane burst and interrupt abilities of ele/resto shamans, and their offensive dispells (purge, grounding totem, earth shock, cl, lb, frost shock) and you have a very bursty, agressive playstyle that you just can’t get on the alliance side.
The ONLY moment where alliance outperforms horde is when they premade, because of the absurd utility and strength that holy paladins and dwarf priests provide their mates with, but that’s not the majority of the pvp encounters.
So alliance is actually better than horde for organized pvp encounters because of paladins, but it’s not a super big difference, and the rest of the time horde is just more fun to play because of how agressive the playstyle is, and more satisfying.
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I think people choose horde over alliance because of the lore/racials , thats my guess.
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Do you not think that it is intriguing that in Classic it seems the most popular faction by far is Horde yet in Vanilla it was Alliance?
Which seems to clearly prove that players in Classic are much more switched on than they were the first time around, as generally the Horde racials are better in PvP than the alliance ones, yet bring this fact up in the ‘Classic is nerfed’ threads and you get shouted down.
As for offering free transfers from Horde to Alliance, players, for the most part, don’t want balanced factions they want to roflstomp the opponent and are for the most part only going to contribute to faction imbalance not try to stabilise it. The only real option is for Blizzard to artificially balance the realms by putting in faction queues and physically limiting the numbers on each faction on each PvP server. Which to be quite frank is never going to happen.
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Yup, people want to roll on other people, and want to have the least frustrating time possible, for sure, which is why they min max like hell today.
Alliance has dwarfs for every support choice and gnomes on a any movement depended class. Both racials are incredible powerful.
The dwarf priest and dwarf rogue should deserve a mention all on his own. Also paladins vs. shamans. Offensive vs. Defensive support.
It might be my own bias as a paladin but I’ve always considered Paladins the stronger choice in organized PvP. Freedom, BoP, DS and Auras on a plate wearing healer that can dispell absolutely everything except curses for the lowest mana cost per cast more then makes up for windfury and chain heal.
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Why would I want to play a human, tiny human or a small human in a fantasy game?
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Because shrek and cow isn’t appealing option either.
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Well, according to the faction imbalance, you are wrong.
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Yet overall faction balance is pretty even, since rp and pve realms are super alliance heavy.
Also it’s all for goofing, person i replied wondered that who would want to play human in fantasy game…and according to census human and undead are most played races so he’s wrong too.
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The retail plebs only know one faction, Horde…
In Vanilla the best faction is Alliance… ever since they added the scum blood elves to the game, it became Horde favored.
Maybe in 2 years after people are done with Naxx people will see the might of the Alliance and the faction skew will favour the Alliance once agane, it was like this on p servers, why not in Classic?
I’d rather scare the Shreks, corpsewalkers and the cows with my baldness than ever live with them in the dunghold of Orgrimmar or spooky-scary Emo-city
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So it’s because of blood elves that horde has been dominant pvp faction since forever in retail?
not just because of them but one of the more contributing factors definitely
Well as i fan of barbies that warms my heart dearly. Good for them.
And on the other side of the coin:
Dwarves:
Stone Form- Bleed, poison and disease resistance plus 10% more armour for 8 seconds (OPAF for Rogues).
Plus they get the best PvE/PvP support ability in the game (Fear Ward AKA targeted WotF) alongside a powerful instant heal.
Humans:
Perception- Automatic GG when playing against Rogues (the most common ganking class in the game) and arguably stronger than stun resistance in some situations (why hope that you resist that Cheap Shot when you can just whack him before he even clicks it?).
Mace and sword spec- Higher hit chance on the most common weapons in the game.
Gnomes:
Escape Artist- Remove anything that isn’t a stun or polymorph (including DoTs that apply slows).
Alliance also have their own fair share of strong racials.
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