That is one stupid analogy you’ve got there. It’s not even a thread asking which of something is best? And never go there? Are you implying I somehow avoid using the faction system?
The factions can still exist, I just don’t want there to be a divide. In case you’re turning into a big question mark right now let me give you an example from another game without a pve divide, the secret world.
There are three factions, all with their own identity and faction quests. But when out in the world exploring new zones most of them are the same for all the factions. Players from different factions can form their guilds and help each other in any pve content. Because like WoW, when it comes to pve it tends to be a 3rd party big bad anyway. However, when it come to pvp you can only play with your own faction, since they’re at war (something WoW funnily enough disregarded with mercenary mode).
Just imagine for a second how many would play alliance if they wouldn’t have to give up playing with their friends and teammates. If they wouldn’t have to shrink their potential recruitment pool by a substantial amount just to go play the blue races.
Give free faction changes to hordes players on horde dominated servers and to alliances on alliance dominated servers , I cant be the only one who would take the opportunity to get a smaller community , even tho I’m on Draenor and Draenor alliance is basically a quiet little town , I’d take it.
You know you can just level a new character if you don’t have money for a change right? Trust me, it will be a lot quicker process than waiting for blizz to give you all a change for free.
Yeah and what’s more is that you might very well have made friends or joined a good team on that faction that you don’t just want to leave. And good luck convincing your entire raid team to switch faction just because it’s free.
On the other hand, if the divide / barrier didn’t exist, you could just transfer to whatever race you wanted and not have to worry about others.
No, we won’t reverse the problem, unless Blizzard keep racials that way for 10 more years like they did in the past.
Not deleted, but deactivating them when it comes to instanced contents, Dungeon, Raids, Arena, BGs could’ve been more fair yea. They can stay as cosmetics and flavour on open world, this is another option but since we already have an imbalance problem at least during Shadowlands Alliance need an advantage for now.
In my opinion Blizzard will never remove racials though, it is a reason to race change aka MONEEY, the same rule applies to crossfaction play or removal of factions. Such things are never gonna happen in the near future. 10 years later if WoW is in the brink of death then they might try yea.
23 out of 38 alliance guilds that cleared the latest raid on mythic are moving horde purely for racials on ravencrest, it’s insane.
I honestly think that racials should be removed and only be cosmetic/quality of life.
Like the void elf reduced transmog costs, no more combat boosting racials.
You remember those WoD skills that you could use for open world content? You don’t? That’s because they were absolutely meaningless. And those were even stronger than racials iirc.
Dude it only takes top 1% Guilds to say they are gonna move and you know it’d flood hard.
It’d defintly reverse the situation, the reason alliance still bleed Players is due to popularity not racials. Guilds trying to set up on the alliance arent able to, the player pool just doesnt exist to try and recruit from.
guilds move horde to increase the Potiental recruitment that can be achieved with the larger numbers supplied in that faction. not down to racials on any level not atleast today.
the problems are the risks, if it did reverse the situation blizzards investment would be for naught. they’re not gonna implement a Change which doesnt fix the situation… to then have to do something to pull Players back to the horde. it’d need to be a long term fix to hold any level of chance to be implemented.
heres a major thing though. If everyone goes horde they dont need Cross-Faction gameplay… Alliance will just become a Empty Faction used only for Roleplay in cinematics etc etc.
they dont need a playerbase in the faction to set up the faction Lore realistically, just the NPCs assossiated with the faction to make the story realistically.
this how can people not see the fact, that recruiting on the alliance would take ALOT More time comparitively?.. guilds dont have time to invest months into finding players… they’ll move to the majority to shorten the time recruiting.
horde have a MUCH wider Pool of players to recruit from
Also the people going horde are generally going to Raid which simply makes sense. they’re the ones guilds are after which means they kinda have to follow the majority to make it happen.
Sure, a well established guild with a full raid team that is already clearing the content is going to move their entire guild over to Horde just to recruit.
Mythic guilds always ALWAYS recruit. Can’t risk players getting too relaxed or having to deal with people leaving and having no one on the bench to come in.
it only takes these people 5 seconds to look at the people saying their transfering and 99% of it is “I Wanna Raid”.
Like litterally putting are throwing the answers at the forums and giving the reasons to their transfers but players will forever hold the grudge of “ZE RACIALS MAN” forever.
even when the Full Meta Night elf M+ Runs became a Pro Play… it didnt sway anyone xD
