Faction Barriers

Community General Discussion
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Dear Blizzard,

it’s time you either commit to cross-faction play, or drop it altogether.
We have guilds that can be cross-faction, we have cross-faction parties and raids.

But then we can’t queue in these groups, nor can we properly talk to the other faction unless we rely on something like Elixir of Tongues.
The story sees us working together as well.
So what’s the plan now? Are we going to properly support cross-faction play?

  • Make orcish a racial language for Orcs
  • An equivalent for Humans
  • Make Common truly a common language between factions/players
  • Do not allow cross-team talk in PvP (cause we all know where this goes) [Thanks Sowee!]
  • Allow cross-faction invites for parties/raids without bnet requirements
  • allow us to queue as cross-faction groups
  • Keep all other languages for roleplay purposes.
  • make toys work across faction
  • Allow open-world support such as healing/spells/quests
  • Allow guild swapping
  • Allow guild-finder to search cross faction
  • Make mounts work cross-faction
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I’m ok with different languages and some non-gameplay restrictions but not being able to queue for dungeons or LFR with my buddies because they play a different faction is so dumb…

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As a roleplayer, the barrier has a huge impact on us, especially for Addons like Musician etc where you share data through links in chat. Either you spam everyone’s chat, or make a semi-functional cross-faction party…

Like…they make things needlessly complicated.
Worse even, I’d say the cross-faction implementation feels even half done, rushed.
Throw out “something” to make cross-play possible, but ignore everything around it.

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It doesn’t have to be cross-faction as you can PvP on the same team as the opposite faction. So whatever they have in there now, keep it like that.

Other than that, I don’t know why other restrictions are in place these days.

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good point actually, so tweaking it to not allow communication with the opposing team is probably better in PvP, regardless of faction.

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That is already in the game, you can’t communicate with the opposing team, hence whatever function is working there can remain in place :slight_smile:

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Agreed. This is so annoying for roleplayers who need to use a potion with a somewhat high cost just to communicate.

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If your friends chose the opposite faction than yours, they are not your friends.

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It’s not like switching a flag in the code to allow one faction, in a product as old as WoW you need to unpick a lot of stuff.

Give it time, Blizzard is very conservative in make big changes like this. It’s coming… eventually.

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That is such a stupid in take in so many levels. To say something like that better to not say anything.

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It was a joke. Pretty difficult not to get it.

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Fair point :dracthyr_hehe_animated:

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I’m pretty sure it will come during The Worldsoul Saga, with the whole ‘elves banding together’ thing.

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You’re missing: open world support without war mode: healing, buffing, toys that only work on friendlies.

You never know though, with gameplay allowing us to talk to each other as Thalassian elves I’m not sure they’d do more.

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I thought of a new Secondary Professions, similar system to Archeology called “Linguistics” where your character learns all known languagues as a form of establishing communications with all races. You’ll obtain titles and cosmetics along with Achievement Points.

I also think there must be a feature where you can form up party groups and be able to do quests together, queue dungeons and Battlegrounds all together.

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Yeah sure, definitely not the old trick of “it was a joke” when you mess up.

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You missed a couple. Mounts, trades and /follow cannot be used cross faction. All of which has led me to be frustrated. I made a ton of alts on horde side during remix. All to see what both sides of the game feels like. They are now sitting gathering dust.

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I 200% support everything you said. Faction divide sucks, let’s dissolve the barriers so everyone can freely play with everyone. Joint raids, guilds, and M+ have completely overhauled the way I play this game, but there are still some unnecessary barriers left. Let them die!

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It’s also stupid that if you’re a member of a guild, and you faction change, you’re kicked out of the guild in the process. To get back in you have to be btag friend with someone who’s got rights to invite or be in a cross faction/btag society with them.

Guild finder is still own faction only.

Just erase the faction devide as long as pvp isn’t turned on!

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Originally you couldn’t even have both a horde an alliance character on the same server. Now, you can play both alliance and horde, you can have a guild with both alliance and horde players and you can talk with eachother on guild chat, battletags exist now and you can communicate via bnet chat, you can do dungeons with members of the opposite faction, you can even send crafting orders to players from opposite faction to make items for you BUT you can’t whisper them if they’re missing a reagent or something.
Yeah this is silly and pointless, the whole game changed when it comes to crossfaction play and the language barrier feels almost anachronistic now, a relic from the past that no longer fits in modern WoW.