It was a diferent age.
Being “enemies” and not being able to interact with other faction except for killing them was nice, but so is being able to play the race/faction that you want and still be able to play with your friends and skip long queues.
It’s the eternal fight of immersion (lore, RPG aspect, etc) vs progress (quality of life, accessibility, etc).
I agree while I enjoy dragonflights adventure theme even if Zaralek was a little bit slow the absolute lack of any faction conflict has been kind of a downer.
Mind you I’m talking purely from a story perspective; where it comes to player agency crossfaction play as a game mechanic I’m all for
How could you have levelled in MoP first if you started 18 months ago…
Fishy…
There’s many variations of that trope though.
The threat is different, how its resolved is different, the effects it has is different, etc.
Also; I personally feel WE should never be ‘the one’. NPCs should be. We’re just assisting them in the matter.
Not available to the first character on an account I’m sure.
Yeah I figured that, that’s why I edited the post. You were too fast I guess 
He did say ‘don’t ask how’.
So… Mmmmh.
This !
The player was forced to go along with it all. Whatever mad decisions their leaders made.
There should have been way more dissent and bickering between the racial leaders. Tended to only see this in the Horde.
Horde races used to be mostly edgy, vicious, pro-active ‘bad’ guys and Alliance the reactive ‘good’ ones.
If you wanted to play a ‘good’ guy, it had to be Alliance. 
The best part of the faction divide for me, was a chance to do a different set of faction questlines and see another perspective.
Legion Class Halls offered this variety too, which is great for alts.
Here’s an idea, if you don’t mind me:
I think traditional factions are pretty much dead for a variety of reasons, most of them related to the slow march of time as players slowly creep towards their favourite faction.
But what if we could sometimes get content patches that allows us to straight up select a faction - and those factions were at war?
And let’s say further that, although you have to choice, certain types of players are pushed by the game into one faction or the other. They still get the ultimate say but the game will auto-suggest or try to lure them. Parameters here can be class, race, experience (how long someone has played), current faction balance, etc.
Let’s say for example that there’s a patch where we go into the Emerald Dream, right, and 3 factions emerge:
In this case the story might be something like we want to plant the new world tree but it’s from the plane of death, and some druids are really unhappy about this. Many people, however, consider Elune a saint and part of the dream, and therefore this gift from the realm of death has the blessing of nature - so it’s fine. Right?
Meanwhile, the old Nightmare is coming back to stop both of them by corrupting and damaging the dream, attempting to thwart the planting of a new world tree entirely. Why? Because every time one is planted someone comes to kill it and nearly takes Azeroth with it. Those who fought the Legion and the Scourge would know. And Shadow Priests just wanna ruin the dream because they’re backed by the voidlords.
Depending on class you get a recommendation!
Warrior: Chosen of Elune
Paladin: Chosen of Elune
Hunter: Grove Wardens
Rogue: Chosen of Elune
Priest: If you are shadow when asked, The Nightmare, otherwise The Grovewardens
Shaman: The Grovewardens
Mage: Chosen of Elune
Warlock: The Nightmare
Monk: Grovewardens
Druid: Nightmare if Feral or Guardian, otherwise Grovewardens
Demon Hunter: Nightmare
Death Knight: Nightmare
Evoker: Grove Wardens
But you can pick whichever one you want, and the different factions will have different transmogs and titles for the character - but more importantly, once you choose your side you get locked in unless you complete a quest and you are now at war (in Warmode) with the players of the other two factions.
This is very similar to Covenants, but since there is no character power and it’s more about what quests and objectives you get and what transmogs, you can now play the game 3 times and have a unique experience each time. Or just accept whichever one you got and have fun with the sense of identity and conflict here.
A year down the line, when the faction balance is just about ready to collapse due to time, the factions become irrelevant to further progression and a new set comes up.
I could not care less about the alliance vs. horde conflict. Been following the game since 2005, played it myself since 2006.
There is a whole lot more and interesting to WoW than the horde vs. alliance, imo.
You when chromie time exist: 
Times change but not always for the better is sadly all I have to say.
True there is and I know the content but the issue here is the player mentality is split between pure pvp game which they are better off playing a moba and me and you that enjoy lore history and PvE of the game then anything else we are where we need to be.
At least it’s not the same enemy everytime
Honestly, I’m sick and tired of conflict narratives, as they make it hard to understand what faction am I playing on the Horde side.
So far Warcraft showed:
So the question is: what’s the next version of the Horde ?
I made a post on the role playing-forum, a year ago, asking the following question:
The best answer, came from, Skadefryden:
Continuing the discussion from Horde character(s) soul searching question:
If they make another faction conflict expansion, I see myself leveling only through TW, 19 of my current 25 characters, I play at level 70. I might need to bring another 4, currently at level 20.
Cheers.
Did i say i was restricted to 1 character?, + why would i lie about being new to the game in this topic…? 
I was going to say, this is Covenants v2 
But yeah, if it had been only about transmog, the NPCs with interact with, the quest hubs we visit, and maybe what kind of daily quests we get (e.g. a greater proportion of combat vs peaceful tasks) then it’s totally fine. My entire problem with Covenants was the power differential and how we often had to choose between an aesthetic we didn’t care for or gimping our performance to a significant degree.
I have no problem with Covenants v2 as long as there is zero character power associated with the choice. And that has to include professions too! Just because my warrior is a blacksmith doesn’t mean he wouldn’t like to hang out in a flowery forest 
First of all; I never said you were lying.
Second; you didn’t actually help matters by saying ‘don’t ask how’.
Because everything in too much repetition gets boring.
Maybe for you that play once in every full moon it’s so cool. Those of us seeing it for 15years find it old and tired.
So, i much rather move in a new direction, thank you. We already did the alliance vs horde things 3 times already in RTS and WoW and we all know it can’t lead anywhere cause one of the factions can never actually win and all we will hear is a lot of hate and forums flaming and finally Thrall and Jaina brokering for peace cause everyone is tired of the whole thing.
No. I don’t want faction war yet again, thank you. It’s repetitive and uninspiring and honestly i don’t care anymore. It’s a phony war without any stakes and it can never have real stakes. So, i’d rather fight the baddies, thank you. At least we can have a resolution to that.
I play every day lol