Well they are going full Legion again.
Unlock Mythic x-realm raids faster as well please. The same-faction groups can still keep their hall of fame, I just wanna raid mythic sooner
Stop doing half things, allow also cross faction guilds and grouping outside of instances. Factions are an outdated concept.
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My guess is that they couldnât solve the dwindling Alliance population thing.
Amazing change and is a long-time coming so im very delighted to see this news, especially in 9.2.5 its insane to see but i do have one question about the guild changes since the blue post doesnt really seem to give the reasoning for it.
Why are Guilds not included in this, is it because its a big task that was too much for 9.2.5? Because you still want guilds to be faction-specific etc. some clarification as to the reasoning would be nice.
Assuming the decision is final and that guilds wonât be cross-faction i think there should be a way to have a kind-of guild-community merger so that effects of not being in my guild are not felt i.e. still access Guild-chat, access guild bank etc. etc.
Its just right now i still cant really race-change to my desired alliance races because i will not be able to join my guild again and lose all the benefits of being in that guild which kind of defeats (to a big margin) the entire point of this change because im still being punished if i do race-change
As it stands right now from my understanding it only really affects Pugging in custom-groups for instanced content, which is great but more still needs to be done which is why i ask for clarifcation here on if guilds will become cross-faction in the future
P.s.: What about sending mail to different faction characters (alts) i.e. Belf Monk to Human Paladin that should also be addressed since we seem to be (Thankfully) going down the road of cross-faction gameplay
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You have plenty of ex alliance players who only moved over for the easy groups, did you forget about them? If youâre that mad then you could at least use some of that energy to berate the ones using your faction for easy gains. 
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^This.
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Really awesome change! I would love it even more if it wasnât restricted for guilds or outdoor content though. Maybe a solution would be to give all races the Pandaren treatment and let you choose faction regardless of race. Perhaps through some small quest chain so it has some ties with the actual lore. Is it that unreasonable or unrealistic within the premise of the game that a Dwarf chooses to join the Horde? I would put it on an equal level of moving to a new country irl.
I am one of those players who for the most part prefer the aestethics of Alliance races but all my friends are Horde. The dream for me would be the ability to choose any race/faction combo I want. It could even be a separate solo activity to do a quest chain to migrate from horde to alliance or vice versa. So basically let people queue for instances cross faction but also give players the option to fully migrate to the opposite faction through in-game activities
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itâs a vicious cycle. more horde players means more ppl to choose from in all the competitive content, means attracts more players, meansâŚ
Now please remove the rating requirements of Conquest item upgrades so that my 3 friends that immigrated from GW2 can start playing WoW again.
i mean we have vulpera we cant really talk bad haha
Is this because of the Microsoft thing? Did they finally forced Actiblizz to do long-requested good things? This and the restriction of boosts on the same day! Seriously, is Blizzard trying to get me to resub? They are making some excellent progress.
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Well Sylvanas was right after all. Due Alli crying for years, Ian makes it trueâŚ
âThe Horde is nothingâ.
As a pure Goblin i will ask money from now on for every activity i will do in game with other HAPPY CROSS FACTION TRAITORS.
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Weâre hopeful that these changes will serve to actually strengthen faction identity by allowing more players to play the faction whose values, aesthetic, and characters they find more compelling, rather than feeling forced to choose between their personal preference and the ability to play with friends.
You say this and yet guilds remain single faction? Dont you think this is a little bit contradicting?
Edit: Dont get me wrong, its a good change which has been overdue for a long time now. But restricting guilds to single faction only is a direct contradiction to your statement which I quoted above.
But what if Goldshire Inn became instanced content? Would you then want to be my friend? wink wink
I love this, but can you please allow Cross-faction comms to just be an âOpt-inâ thing and not make it such a faff! Just make it a checkbox.
Well, this was long overdue, I think it will be a good change.
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This is great news thank you!
How will language works?
Please, please, please please please, work on Cross Faction Guilds next 
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At long last!
3, Dylan passed away two days ago. He slipped on his rubber duck and broke his neck while getting out of the shower 