Cross-faction groups can now (11.0.7) queue for unrated PvP!

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Source: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/1107-update-ptr-development-notes/1998869

WE ASKED FOR IT, AND WE FINALLY GETTING IT! :smiley:

In theory (I hope Blizzard doesn’t mess yet another good idea with stupid restrictions or poor implementation…) full Cross-faction queues for unrated PvP are a huge thing!

  • Good to counter Sync-queueing (multiple groups in 1 faction syncing their queues)
  • Better queue times for both factions
  • Easier balancing of teams (skill, roles, classes, premades)
  • Better social options (bigger pool of communities and players to queue up with)
  • Removes faction bias because you sometimes play for the other faction (e.g. some BG Maps are better for a certain faction) - 1 trick ponies can’t fly over the map with flag if they have to play alliance :stuck_out_tongue:
  • All reasons above (including anti-sync) make the BG experience a lot better for most players, which would increase participation in PvP

This is only possible if Blizzard implements a full cross-faction experience - Players from both factions getting mixed for queues. If Blizzard implements only “well, now you can queue for the other faction if the group leader is from that other faction”, it is a gain, but we would miss some of the important gains listed above.

So, Blizzard, PLEASE implement this right :pray:

Edit: And yeah, this is worth losing “faction-identity” in the process, sry Delenis my brother :smiley:

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This are indeed welcoming changes.

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I wonder when the destruction of the game’s identity will stop. What’s next, all races in both factions or merging the factions into one?

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This is a Christmas fricken miracle. Queue syncing is going to be so much harder. This change is gigantic.

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The game has evolved. There really no reason to have Horde v Alliance BGs anymore. It should just be a place where you can fight players, no matter their faction.

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Good change. Love to see it. Helps against synced premades without screwing the 5 man premades.

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yeah also against this. Old good wow is dying both in lore and quality…now we will have orcs and undeads fighting together with worgens and humans…what a mess, at least unrated pvp allowed us to have lore wise pvp and even this is lost

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They most likely mean this. I think the wording would have been different if they wanted to abolish factions entirely.

It’s still a welcome and overdue change. Thanks for sharing the news.

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This is horrible news for me. One of my favorite features of this game is faction war. First, they killed it in the lore. Now they’re trying to break it in the game.

Every decision they make is worse than the last and you think it’s a good solution, but in reality it’s just another patch to mask a problem, like the mercenary mode was.

This game has always been alliance vs horde, and it should never have changed.

This franchise started with “Orcs vs Humans”

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it just saves time, u don’t need to have the same class twice anymore to play with frens :smiley:

it’s time alliance and horde live in peace

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This is world of warcraft!!

I just want to kill hordies.

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Lol rekt. You’ll now be forced to deal with my horde scum alts on your team also.

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I don’t know how more does it increase faster queue times. It is already 2 minutes.

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Let’s see, if the mercenary buff is necessary and when you join the bg, you change to the other faction’s race as happens now, it doesn’t seem bad to me. Now, if this change is to be like the blitz that unites you with all the races regardless of the faction, for me it is a horrible change, causing the base identity of the game to be lost even more.

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That would be ideal. But knowing Blizzard, they will probably do the same thing as in Blitz, the least efford xD

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I don’t mind, if both teams are quite balanced in the end :slight_smile:

To me that sounds horrible. That is the reason why I don’t merc, I play Draenei and Nightelf for a reason, the horde race I get when mercenary sucks a lot: A) Transmog B) Racial abilities change. I like it more like it is in rated BG.