What happened with the Alliance on this server? I play Horde but the main reason I joined this realm was because of the balanced factions.
It’s really boring to play on monofaction servers. I wonder what’s the solution for this issue.
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they all either gone firemaw, shaker or back to retail.
Wouldn’t be a possibility to open free character migration for Alliance only until the server returns to a balanced state? We have room for a lot more players.
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I have been waiting for a solution from Blizzard for many months now. And there is nothing. And I guess there will be nothing. Actually, they only make the situation worse because of free transfers from imbalanced servers without faction restrictions. For example, as a horde, I can do, realistically, nothing to help this situation. I can try to convince my few friends to go on 99% ali servers for a lot of money. We will be stuck there for a couple of months before we can try it again for another big money payment. These monofaction servers are so boring, so I am playing like 1/5 than before. Another option is to throw everything away and start over on Fresh, spending months getting to where I am now. And hoping they wont open free transfers again so the server wont become mono faction in a split of a second like happened before on Firemaw, for example.
So if you are hoping the blizz will help somehow with this situation. Don’t waste your time. They won’t do anything.
Man that sucks, really. I don’t get these people who straight up go for the stronger faction on a PVP server. There’s PVE realms out there that are more balanced, the irony no?
What’s the point of having PvP realms without an opposite faction? It’s basically just PVE realms flagged as PvP.
Today I got excited that a level 80 corpse camped me for an hr while leveling, but hey, seeing Alliance alive was entertaining. It’s sad really.
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If you would play Alliance, would you come to 90% horde server such as Ashbringer? Somehow I doubt it
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Probably not, unless the Alliance had around 1k players at least, which is close to what they have now. The idea is not to let it get worse before they all go.
I get the idea, it is just there is no way to do it with everyone being fine with solution.
Blame the queues on my previous server…I left when there were almost no Horde on Ashbringer, and I was fine with alliance 2:1 to Horde…then as time rolled by more and more Horde came.
Now its like 80% Horde. I do see alliance but its rare…pretty sure they raid log now or have moved off.
Yah it sucks. It was fun the first week of WoTLK…some pvp happened. It was fair. Some was unfair like 20 alliance camping a horde quest spot for hours. Now that would never happen. Horde would show up 10:1 and destroy.
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I’m hoping some of you Alliance folks would be interested in our realm and join us. Don’t let this become a one faction realm like all the others. We would like to have you here.
As for Blizzard, there’s still lots of us who enjoy PvP and would like to play on balanced realms, throw a helping hand and bring more people to the Alliance. Look at Thekal, the success is at least partly due to faction balance.
Thank you for all the replies guys, appreciate it.
All servers will become monofaction if there is a tool like server transfer without faction restriction. It is just a matter of time. And it is just the blizzard’s fault(they like money from transfers). They should have known this would happen. Or at least they should have figured it out a long time ago. Now, I would take any solution that allowed me to see the opposite faction in the world. No matter how bad it would be, because nothing is worse than a monofaction server.
I’m hoping for more ali on Ashbringer, so I can eventually transfer there too. Now I would only make the situation worse. Good luck.
Server population is good on the horde side now.
Preach my friend, thank you for the sympathy, it feels good to know there’s still folks like us who enjoy the good ol’ faction bickering.
Take care and enjoy the game! Hope to have you with us at some point.
Haha, you are right. It seems like we are the last people who care about it(at least here). It is refreshing to see someone here with the same thoughts. (It’s interesting that when I talk to someone in real life, everyone agrees on how lame the monofaction server is, but here, at least vocals, very few people care.)
Take care too, friend. I hope we will meet in the game in the future.
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If Blizz did something like 50% more gold earned from looting and quests, 50% more experience from killing mobs and quests, 50% more honor gained and free mounts for the underdog faction, people would bite.
Keep it that way until it’s at very least 40/60. Probably better if it’s closer to 45/55.
Yes, and both factions can get some bonuses if the ratio is close to 50:50. There are many solutions how to fight with it or how to fix it. But it seems like Blizzard doesn’t care at all.
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Screw it, make it instant 80 right away and free transfer. Doesn’t really matter, as long as they join.
You must’ve joined it like 2 years ago. Worse things have happened to servers since then.
Nah dude, when they opened migration to Ashbringer it was quite balanced. Silly me, I thought it would stay that way.
Problem is they didn’t cut off Horde.
We were going to leave our mega server a few weeks earlier and the best server they gave us cut off Horde only transfers 12hrs before our guild was going to move.
Ashbringer never cut off Horde only…so yeah it went from low Horde to max in about a month