No they aren’t avoiding factions. We enter the world in WM on or WM off shards, those shards are with players from any realm. The benefits of being on the same realm are wholly based on your faction. Not the opposite faction. We do not need to be on the same realm to be able to fight the Alliance/Horde etc.
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I mean, yeah, the factions are bonked, what is blizzard supposed to do? Force people to swap? No of course not.
This should’ve been fixed in like WoD when it started, now it’s far too late, and thats just how the game will continue to be, nothing to sweat over really.
If its 80/20 in hordes favor across the playerbase so be it, its the players choice in the end.
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I play Horde on both Spanish servers and Draenor and the servers actually matter a bit. If I go to a WQ in the Spanish ones I think you’d be shocked how much the Alliance dominates the war mode simply due to their servers having more blues than reds. The second I get invited by someone from Draenor/Kazzak is almost as if get lifted from the middle of the Vietnam war to travel into Europe.
In any case folk actually avoids the faction war, the Horde here for the most part refuses to activate it aswell as the Alliance does in the rest of the English speaking ones.
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That doesn’t show anything because those numbers show all the casuals aswell.
The entire reason guilds are moving over is to recruit from bigger pools of people that actually do the content. Those numbers in that picture are so wrong and I am not even looking at that. Also, sure raiding might not be the only endgame content but its what we have to use to see whats happening. It’s quite funny how slightly you’re still going against everything that gets posted in this thread and never come up with an attempt at a solution.
People should have free choice of which faction they choose and not be punished in the process of reaching endgame just to realise they have to race change, faction & server swap just because their side of the game is dead endgame wise.
I still think cross faction is the solution, especially since no one else has come up with another idea.
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Alliance racials for most of the specs already better than horde. Its just simple way to many on horde, and noone will gonna pay 50+ euro / each character to change alliance. Simple not worth it.
Also heard many guild on ravencrest rerolled/rerolling horde for SL, because there are many more horde players and easier to do keys and recruit new people.
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Yup I used this exact thing as an example majority of the top raid guilds on Ravencrest are all going Horde and it has been happening even before BFA and all the way through BFA. More than half of the ones that cleared the latest mythic are going horde and quite alot of the heroic ones aswell.
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Cross faction in PvE makes way more sense than in PvP. Yet, they did it for PvP only and in an unfair way, too. The dominant side can join the other side, but not the other way round. I know the intentions for it, but unfair mechanics just make existing problems worse.
=> I vote for PvE cross realm.
=> I vote for a FAIR PvP cross realm. Edit: If people keep insisting on the faction conflict than it would be more fitting to even remove the PvP cross realm. But the PvE cross realm makes sense either way.
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Exactly. But I suppose some people prefer to stick their head in the sand and rant about racials or something.
Tbh the sooner factions dies the better, let’s hope the Alliance dies faster so all the content can just be merged for one faction.
True lol, mercenary mode is literally cross faction PvP.
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Sometimes I do enjoy queing up as a merc just to kill some Tauren’s and Vulps 
Wasn’t it because horde racials are turbobroken yesterday lol?
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Keep all the pve smug elitist on the horde side, you hordes don’t know how nice it is to be without them
Not only elitist on horde side, else alliance numbers would be 1000 times more than horde.
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you are the populair side now, and we all know what kind off people pick the populair side, so keep them. stay populair.
Cross faction grouping is the solution. Realisticly there is no point in factions any more, we have teamed up more times than we have had wars, and frankly the “reasoning” behind starting said wars is retarded. Also mercenary mode exists for PvP…
Actually with the ARs the Alliance has the lead when it comes to racials. Limit even mentioned that if it was due to only racials they would have gone Alliance.
I can see this working, but it feels really cheap and it will make people even more angry at Blizzard.
Seriously just allow us to group cross faction and have cross faction guilds, thats all. If you hate the enemy faction, cool more power to you but not everyone has faction pride to that extend. While i main Alliance and would probably never go Horde dont feel like a representative of The Alliance lore wise.
If cross faction is that problematic… If let’s say an human temporary turns into a belf using a NPC in order to complete HC raid, is that an issue or not?
I feel like the massive defect towards Horde side way more problematic.
As demonstrated by the WM bonus there are more Horde in WM than Alliance. I have been in shards with English, Germans, Russians etc etc some times they are devoid of Alliance, other times there are loads.
Most of us will shard hop desperately searching for Alliance to complete our Call to Arms quests. I also find there are more Alliance than a day or two in.
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Try playing WM as an Alliance in the end game zones, I was bombarded by about 20 horde players within seconds, it’s ok from 1-110 as you don’t run into large groups of Horde that are impossible to fight.
IMO we need to remove things that make life easier for the horde, removing Merc mode in BG’s would be a start, it’s practically a horde only feature.
If you want short queues actually play Alliance.
Offer free faction swaps from Horde > Alliance, make it automatic so the game opens up faction changes when population imbalance swings too far one way.
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Sheeshj, seeing a few threads on the same subject… did some ‘influencer’ make a video about it? Or wth is going on. 
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