Whenever an Alliance player turns in their Onyxia attunement quest chain, have Bolvar buff everyone in Stormwind with an Alliance version of Warchief’s Blessing. Call it High Lord’s Blessing.
Thanks.
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Wait you don’t have a rend buff
kek
Well you do have palladins tho. So.
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I like this idea for Classic +
Make world buffs go out to all three cities so we don’t have to go to Lagwind.
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I prefer that each faction has its own thing. Pros/cons for each one.
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What’s the pros of Alliance having no answer to the Rend buff?
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Paladins. 'nuff said.
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Paladins and Fear Ward.
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Fear ward I buy a lot more than paladins, since Shamans have strengths as well (like a spammable smart heal). But Fear Ward is completely broken and there’s no way around it.
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So you guys think it was a design choice to make ally races OP 100% of the time and give Horde a rend buff 1% of the time?
Lol
It was never a design choice to make the alliance better at PvE raid content than horde.
It just happened to turn out that way.
Horde get the rend buff because the OG Vanilla team thought it was fun.
Alliance got OP paladins, sword specialization humans, and fear ward because the OG Vanilla team thought it was fun and thematic.
That’s it.
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It’s just how it turned out. Nobody thought World Buffs would be a popular thing 20 years later.
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Exactly. Give Ally a rend equal and nerf OP stuff.
I don’t think that’ll go over too well
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Shamans can do that for their party though.
Summons a Tremor Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster that shakes the ground around it, removing Fear, Charm and Sleep effects from party members within 30 yards. Lasts 2 min.
If you’re a gamer you have the rend buff as alliance too lol
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No.
Embrace the fact that each faction is unique and asymetrical.
Let me know when Horde can get Blessing of Kings, Might, and Salvation with fear wards during raids. 
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If you ever played a shaman compared to raided as alliance, you would know how different tremor totem is to cycling fear ward.
Alliance can make their main tank permanently immune to fear, but not the raid.
Horde can mitigate fear based on RNG timers their group, but still have to face to consequences of their tank occasionally being fear for 1-4 seconds without anything they can do about it.
I would advise caution here as well. I’m all for narrowing the gap between Paladins and Shaman in terms of balance (ie, make shaman anti-threat totem at least equipvalent in quanity to the paladin buff), but I think having some flavour between the two isn’t a bad thing.
I don’t know that we need the factions to be equal though. From an Era type of experience, it’s ok that Alliance are slightly better at one thing (ie, PvE) and Horde are slightly better at another thing (ie, PvP).
Part of the problem is that players maybe just put a little too much emphasis on small things. Those things are important if you’re a competitive player looking to get world firsts or top rankings, but not everybody is that kind of player… even if many more seem to feel like they have to strive to be.
I don’t wanna tell you how to play the game, but I also know the game isn’t that way and maybe changing it to be that way isn’t the right call either. I mean, other than wanting what others have or FOMO, does it really matter that Alliance doesn’t get the Rend buff? The absence of it doesn’t seem to have having a large impact on people playing the game.
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This acceptance is a huge influencer of faction imbalance. Not the primary influencer, since “You think you do [want to play on a pvp server] but you don’t” is the primary reason, but it’s a contributor.