My statistics:
Horde vs Alliance ratio generaly 30-60 / Firemaw 40-60 / rest servers 0-100 (Ironforge data)
Alliance class most played: Warriors (Ironforge data)
Problems related to those facts:
Raids filled up to 45% by alliance warriors. Preventing other classes to be taken into raid in fair numbers compared to Alliance warriors. Negatively affecting game experience for other classes.
Constantly shrinking horde population on ERA. (hope fresh will refresh horde side with toons if they copy chars for era but we can not rely on it). Thanks to no point to play horde in competitive PVE raiding.
Solution: remove rend from Alliance and dont give them any substitution for it.
And please dont even think give Alliance version of free Rend like buff, it would lead into complete diseaster leading into spiral of changes that are would not be required to fix that mess.
Blizzard you just need to do one thing. Do nothing and do not touch era with more changes.
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Divisions dont work. With original TBC and then WoTLK there were racial differences that lead to more Horde and when racials got nerfed it already was statistically more likely to go Horde due to friends or guilds.
On Classic same thing, just different faction. On retail they already gave up on it.
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IRL has prevented me to star in the current fresh servers and in a way i’m glad that it did since i’m still undecided between which of the 2 factions i should pick.
In terms of looks i’m more inclined to go Horde but i wonder if it will be active not only in vanilla but also in TBC and eventually wrath.
It will be, new content will prevent it from dropping like ERA. If Blizzard drops Classic+ in 2-3 years minimum it likely will pull most population fron Anniversary and any other Classic.
That really depends on the classic +. If it’s like regular vanilla with some tweaks and a few new raids then no. That would be like SoD light and the fifth version of vanilla they put out since 2019.
Besides a lot of players just want to play on a cyclic server that goes through vanilla - tbc - wrath. I’m most hyped for TBC again, and there’s a lot of players like this.
Nothing to do with friends.
Horde used to be heavily dominant on 2019 on most servers. So they were dominant in begining of era.
‘‘QoL’’ changes made raiding too easy and confortable and if we take on account raiding meta is on Alliance side with all that goldbuying services able to pay for your summons to ungankable spots for REND we just get sum up that there is no reason to Meta game on horde in pve aspect.
Simple as that all the changes led to the point were it makes sense only play Alliance for pve.
Nothing to do with friends or not friends. Horde had the best possible starting point for that btw.