Add a -10% damage debuff to horde players because of the faction imbalance, it’s the only logical solution I can really think of. If you are against this then make the -10% dmg debuff for PvP only. There has to be some sort of incentives to going Alliance or people will keep joining the bandwagon train.
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Not going to happen.
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Then make it 5%, or the Alliance will die.
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Blizzard doesn’t really give a damn about faction imbalances, they just pay it lip service. If they actually cared, they would have stopped selling faction transfers to the Alliance a long time ago.
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I have a better solution: delete the alliance and ban all alliance players from the game. Bang no more faction imbalance!
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Well, it’s too late now, they can’t stop faction transfers in Alliance because everyone already moved to the Horde. Think about the end result, horde players getting a dmg debuff is nothing compared to what Alliance players have to go through.
I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
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Then remove factions entirely, that will help the Alliance players who have a population that is dry as the Sahara Desert.
And fyi, the playerbase is so against changes that are beneficial to the game in the long run. Sometimes you have to make these sacrifices for the game’s wellbeing. WE have just as much power to fix this imbalance as Blizzard does.
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Exactly! We’re making the mother of all omelettes here. Cant fret over every egg!
Instead of -10% to horde why not buff ally by 10? No need to punish horde players.
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Nah, give Alans 50% more anima / cyphers / exp / rep / ect!
No, just remove the faction wall.
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You’re thinking small.
What will really solve the problem is a +50% tax on transmog for Blood Elves.
You’re welcome Alans.
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Giving one faction an advantage because people don’t want to play it is not beneficial to the game. People have to look at what makes the Horde more popular and it is not all about racials.
First look at the races. Alliance really has a bunch of humans and elves mostly when looking at visuals. When look at Horde races you see there is enough difference to were you don’t feel that you are playing a slightly different version of Orc or elf.
Second look at story. How compelling is the Alliance story? The Alliance is also reacting to something that either the big bad has done or the Horde. They are rarely shown as a driving force. How many times have they done something, game play wise, that the Horde has to react to? Yes, the Alliance has been wins lore wise but how much does that count when you don’t see it in game? In lore the Alliance has more power and powerful allies then the Horde does. In the game the Alliance are like toothless dogs.
Third is what I call “The problem with being good”. There is nothing wrong with wanting to play a good character. My issue is that good characters are predictable. At the end they are always going to make the good choice, or put the greater good above all else. Horde side we don’t really expect them to make the good choice all the time. So you can play a more rounded character because you have more…options…flexibility to be “bad” at times.
I am not saying give the Alliance the villain bat. As a Horde player I know that is not fun to have to play through when it is not your choice. But I am saying I can see how some members of the Alliance would have compassion fatigue. That they may want to try to get their own front yard in order before worrying about other people’s backyard.
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The problem is it did, and that snowballed into the current day problem. When your side had better racial abilities, high end player flocked to the Horde. Now that things are more balanced, the problem is that population has no reason to come back. Matter of fact they would be worse off on the Alliance side because their recruitment base would be like a 1/3rd of what they have now.
Blizzard will just keep pushing forward with tearing down the faction divide, that is their solution to a problem they created and profited off of for years.
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0/10 this concept is too obviously trolling.
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This is unironically one of the worst ideas I have ever seen on the forums. Congratulations
cut Alliance subscription fees to 5$
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People keep saying this but look at what races people are playing Horde side. Yeah, your high end min/max raiders may have gone Horde side but your causal players and low end raiders would not have made that jump. The problem is lack of faction pride on the Alliance side. If players had a stronger tie to the Alliance, the characters and lore, it would have been harder to let go of that pride to become the enemy.
Because of the choices Blizzard has made that strong faction identity for the Alliance is not really there outside of rp communities. Give Alliance players something to feel faction pride about, then roll out a discount for race changes to Alliance from Horde. I still remember doing the Blood Oath of the Horde in Wrath. As a Horde player is was amazing, so I jumped on my Alliance character to see the Alliance counter part and it was nothing. I fed some griffons and maybe ate some snow. As an Alliance player you don’t get those moments.
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