Faction Change was announced with Wotlk Classic, though there was no subsequent info about when it will ± be available.
So does anyone have any info about it or??
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I would like to know this too. I have a Horde Rogue (that was my main character in Classic and TBC) and a bunch of friends convinced me to play Alliance with them that are friends from WAY back in original TBC and Wrath. I boosted a Hunter that is Alliance, but really have a big itch to play my Rogue now again. But want to do it on the faction I am going to be playing.
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Let me guess, human rogue. Totally not because of the racial. 
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Doubt it will come before Ulduar at this point, might not even come out with Ulduar either. They haven’t mentioned it since they made the announcement that it would be happening
I’d like to have a race change too 
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Same, on the Server Venoxis its over 80% Horde and people are just transing away from alliance cause of the imbalance and without a core raid grp, u wont even find enough people for Heroics. Faction change needs to come
I don’t mind race change as long as it’s not done in Barber Shop just like the “body type” change, which is IMO very classic lore friendly game experience.
I mean paid service gender/race change coming together with name change as part of the service is kinda OK, as it’s basically new character of the same class, without the necessity of level grind from the scratch.
Still kinda defy the spirit of classic where you had to think ahead because every choice you’ve made does matter, but I can see reason for that as it’s better than rolling new character of the same class just different race or opposite gender/body type/whatever and deleting the other one because you had sudden change of mind for whatever reason.
Faction change on the other hand is more complicated as some realms are heavily in favor to one of the faction and players might use the service to stay on their favorite realm, playing the same character, just switching to the faction that have bigger player-base.
Just like players tend to abandon the realm moving to another one where their faction is minority of the realm population, faction change can be misused to abandon the faction and swap to that one which makes the majority on that realm.
How would you prevent/discourage players from doing this?
And that’s why Faction change is bad, specially on servers with bad balance, it’ll turn all the servers to 99% on PVP servers, OUF!
Unbalanced servers are result of Blizzard’s free transfer policy, where players could transfer through multiple servers into wherever they wanted.
So the solution is pretty easy…
- Keep faction change as paid service and make it free only if the server is unbalanced and only for the more populated faction so that they are motivated to join the weaker side.
That’s it.
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Plenty of people only transfer for the very reason because they notice their faction or realm population is declining.
They sure as heck don’t transfer because they want to support the smaller faction on a different realm.
Completely locking people into their ‘dying’ realms or factions would lead to an even greater loss of players.
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Faction change only from the dominating faction to the other side. And give them massive perks to hopefully balance servers.
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