I am all for #nochanges, but I think the biggest issue the Alliance face v the Horde is we have to go through Contested areas (Wetlands and Dustwallow) if we want to get between Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor. Whereas the Horde have Zepelins outside their 2 largest cities that give them safe passage in uncontested zones.
I personally am loving the world pvp, but I feel like I constantly have to play with 4 or more people to cross between continents. Which when I am trying to chill is not how it should be.
I know that bringing in SW docks would be too much of a change, but can we at least make Menethil Harbor and Theramore Isle Alliance territory and leave the remaining areas of the Wetlands / Dustwallow contested.
I think this will give the Alliance a fairer chance of defending against the Horde that outnumber on most (certainly my server). Even the Horde who camp the flight master in Everlook I can tolerate, but as we have only 1 method to cross the continents I feel we need to have them not flag us for PvP.
The connection between OG and UC is comparable to the tram between SW and IF. They’re just in different continents.
It’s not very coherent to make those bases Alliance if everything around them is contested. With the exception of a few low level players coming from Darnassus to cross Wetlands (which can level up in Kalimdor until they’re high enough, and often do), most people are either questing in those areas or much higher level.
You just want free passage between continents, which is not the purpose of “friendly” regions. As a high level player you can be attacked at your destination anyway; you’re just forced to make a stop. My only complaint would be guards are too low level particularly in Menethil.
There’s also Booty Bay - Ratchet (with level 55 guards).
The Tram only goes from 2 nearby zones on the same continent, it is only useful for low levels, the flight only costs 42c. The Zepellins cross continents and are our only method of crossing.
Technically this is how Dalaran and Shattrah act in the expansions. So it can be done. Albeit those zones are 100% neutral and you don’t have any option to enter combat.
That is just as bad, Horde will still camp you on the ship and it goes from a Contested zone (Stranglethorn) to a HORDE zone (The Barrens) - so that is another example of a Horde advantage at crossing the continents.