since MoP I played as a member of the Alliance. Due to my guild and my server dying I recently transferred one of my yet unused lvl 50 alts to the Horde.
I played BfA as Alliance I ofc unlocked the allied races on that side, as it was more or less part of the process of leveling my chars. But now being Horde, without having done anything there, it feels like hitting several brick walls.
First of all there are zero ingame hints or clues where to go and what to do. Just flying to Zuldazar didnât help. The capital there is completely empty. No NPCs, no available flight points. Even after I found some sort of intro quest, by checking to see low level quests on the minimap icon, it didnât really help.
So I asked google which pointed me to https://eu.battle.net/support/en/article/137385. To my suprise even that official article leads you to the 3rd party website Wowhead. I have no problem with Wowhead itself but thatâs just lazy by Blizzard.
But ok, I did what the Wowhead Magâhar guide and after half of my precious sunday doing dull quests I got the Ready for War achievement. Now comes the embassy questline to unlock the Magâhar. Idk about you guys but this was one of the worst written questlines ever. And on top of that, especially at the final scenario, not a single NPC was where the map indicated, having me to ask Wowhead again.
But hey, I made it and I unlocked the Magâhar. Now unlock the Zandalari Trolls I thought, doing there embassy scenario. But no, they require the Tides of Vengeance achievement. You need to finish the War Campaignâboth the 8.0 and 8.1 components. WTF?
I understand the concept of putting effort into something to get a reward. But this isnât fun at all. It feels like a punishment. And Blizzard doesnât seem to put any effort into it either.
yes the hardes thing on unlocking new races is to constantly alt tabing to wowhead and searching for clues where to continue the quest. that was my case⊠chaoticâŠ
Personally quite liked the questlines to unlock them, though not done the trolls yet.
I think your issue is that starting from stratch meant you had rather a lot of questing to do. I had levelled a Horde DH just to see the Horde story so I had already done that part. I didnât unlock the allied races back then as there was a rep grind (I wasnât going to grind both Alliance and Horde reps) needed then. Thankfully the rep grinds are gone now.
I can see the frustration of not being able to just unlock them immediately.
Iâm asking, because unlocking Horde allied races is MUCH easier than Alliance. Not a single dungeon is required.
You need a level 50 Horde character to go to the embassy, thatâs mostly it:
Nightbore - if youâve complete Insurrection on the Alliance, go to the embassy in Orgrimmar, and thatâs it.
HM Tauren - again, if youâve completed Highmountain storyline on the Alliance, go to the embassy and thatâs it.
Zandalari - literally go to Nathanos in the harbor and complete the quests that he gives you, literally takes an hour, and get Tides of War, than go to the embassy.
Vulpera - complete Voldun storyline (Horde exclusive) and go to the embassy.
i had no issue with the horde races i unlocked, but i didnât bother with maghar and zandalari, i just unlocked nightborne, highmountain taurens, and vulpera.
the quests are hit or miss some are nice others are very boring, thatâs true for both factions allied races.
Itâs pretty easy to unlock them these days. If it feels so âpunishingâ donât do it though? I felt pretty great unlocking them myselfâŠbut I like working for things and not getting it handed over for free.
As I described, my experience was completely different. And if itâs like you wrote, that itâs even harder for those switching to the Alliance, then that makes it even worse.
they lack content in shadowlands⊠so didnt remove the timegating in bfa in order to falsely prolong content in shaowlands for those of you who didnt do the allied races yetâŠ
itâs all about making you play longer by making everything a pain in the backside.
At least you donât have to do a MYTHIC DUNGEON (not soloable) to unlock KulâTirans Allied Race - horde questline involves mostly solo-scenarios.
Kinda like their whole customer support not involving IRL $ transactions. Everything is a ââhave you checked wowhead or the forums?ââ (YES I HAVE - Thatâs why I need your help)
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Tbh I had no issue with this, just read the quest /npc dialogue - If you have played WoW you know what to do/where to go
Be happy they didnât add a WoW store item called ââUnlock Allied Races express lane - only 39.99$ââ
WaitâŠit was a Mythic? How the blazes did I unlock my KulâTiranâŠI mean Iâm not doubting you, I just donât remember doing it. It is entirely possible that I was drunk at the timeâŠ
I remember doing the Dungeon to unlock Dark Irons though⊠Which was actually alright, a bunch of mates who all wanted to unlock them just teamed up and did itâŠ
Iâve unlocked everything on both sides apart from Mechagnomes, which is a shame, I quite want one of those, but I keep odd hours, so Iâll have to wait until I can solo the Dungeon I guess! Does anyone know if you can do the Dungeon on Horde, then use your Alliance main to do the actual recruitment quest for them?
