What is the Horde:Alliance ratio in Shazzrah? I’m really curious what part of the meager alliance population on that server was left standing before you closed transfers! I also can’t wait to find out if I should just never log in again after p2 starts, since every single zone is going to be dominated by hordes.
I’ve updated the original post in this thread.
Free Character Moves from Noggenfogger are only available to Horde characters.
We’ve additionally enabled Free Character Moves from Shazzrah to Bloogfang, Dragonfang, Earthshaker, or Judgement. These are also only available to Horde characters.
Thank you!
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Good move.
Might want to carefully examine the faction balance of the other Mega Servers and only enable Horde transfers in the other Mega Servers too.
Could you just consider the same for the server Lucifron? It has the worst Horde:Alliance ratio and is the by far the biggest German Server.
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Wow… so now the faction imbalance will move to my server instead.
Thanks for that! really blizz!!! 
Paid migg when?
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Please make horde only from Firemaw aswell, super dominated by horde pretty much everywhere. Especislly blackrock mountain.
Dont jump on blizzards lazy 1 solution for 2 problems.
Global faction balance and server population is two separate problems that requires two separate solutions.
Be it faction caps, 1-way faction changes, targeted transfers to servers with high ally pop (if those exists), or even changes to racials if necessarily.
Or something else that i didnt think off, im no game dev.
This lazy ”fix” will just move the problem.
But they have failed to fix this problem for so many years so i expect nothing.
Just moved from Firemaw to Earthshaker!
At least they have faction specific transfers now to possibly help balance out some realms.
It’s great and all that you are introducing faction specific ansfers but come on…
How the hell is Lucifron NOT horde only? It suffers from severe faction unbalance and yet you give other alliance players another chance to run away?
How can people be so incompetent and yet still get paid to do their “job”. That’s just beyond me.
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You want blizzard to fix Lucifrons faction balance problem by destroying the faction balance on Heartstriker too (already slightly Horde dominated) ? Seems like a very selfish demand.
Faction only transfers should only be used to balance the factions of the TARGET realm. Never the source realm.
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Any idea what is Lucifrons H:A ratio at the moment?
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Hey Blizzard,
is it possible for you and your employee to think 7+ hours on a workingday about the factionbalance/-imbalance + big Queue-times and how to fix it for P2?
the factionwide only transfers are a real good idea for that kind of problem, big congratulations for this smart idea. I never thought you will get this idea on your own.
but you should consider to do that on every server which has an imbalance. doesnt matter if the imbalance is on alliance or horde side.
and if you really want to get people out from mass-population servers like Lucifron, you should give the people more target servers instead of the “private-server” Heartstriker.
And to avoid any kind of discussion with other players who want to troll and stress me:
No I dont want to transfer away from Lucifron. But I am pretty sure some guys would think about that if there would be any other target server besides the “private-server”.
Many many Server on EU have more target servers then 1, many server have 4 target servers. why Lucifron only 1? why?
because Lucifron has a very low population???
I dont expect to get an answer… because every answer would make no sense… because yes, it makes no sense… Blizzard pls. Get a few workers and give them a few minutes in a meeting room. I am pretty sure they will have a solution for it… its not that hard.
If anything Lucifron is more like a private server tbh. Heartstriker has a good population now and I hope they dont allow faction only transfers there. You cant really give people from Lucifron other targets than Heartstriker because all other german PvP realms are overpopulated too.
Blizz can only fix this faction imbalance by capping each faction seperately at X amount of players and put more hordes in queue.
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How does transferring more players to Nethergarde Keep reduce its overpopulation problems?
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That’s a bad assumption to make. They have been fairly clear on this. A good saying that guides my work life is : assumption is the mother of all f:ups. Words to live by.
So… I mean… Last time I checked (yesterday) my realm (Nethergarde Keep) was still layered, and now, not happy with removing layers in a very overpopulated server you decide to open migrations to it on top of that? Am I the only one who fails to see the logic there? What is the plan? Do you want to solve the overpopulation problems by forcing people to quit?
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It does not help in the least. A couple of new servers would do the trick. I see everybody and his mum complaining about nobody in the lowere level brackets. This has to be a PvP phenomenon, “my” levelling zones on PvE servers are still overrun.
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While you are not wrong with that statement it doesn’t change the fact that this is going to further destroy the faction balance on Lucifron. We are approximiately at something around 35-40:60-65 ratio at this point. Allowing more alliance players to flee from Lucifron is going to push this towards the 20s and thats when the realm will become literally unplayable for the remaining (mostly alliance) players. It’s already pretty bad but now with P2 coming up it’s going to become even worse. Not only will people leave because of the expected queue times but also because they will get camped at every single important flight master, BRM, DM etc. etc.
Iam not going to leave but I might end up starting over fresh on a well populated server once the transfer windows are closed. (IF things really become that bad)
Kaivax, please can you confirm whether or not the keyring is being enabled with these changes? We have been waiting for official word and there is nothing anywhere about it other than a post by you stating that it will come with the first patch, but there have been hotfixes and minipatches since that time and now layering is turned off, PvP system is enabled on Thursday. Still no official word on the keyring.
Please can we get an update on this?
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