Blizzard refused to let horde play together with the alliance cuz ‘faction conflict is important to le game’
There is only one solution at the moment, faction change to horde, most people who do serious content are on the horde both pve and pvp wise, the devs and many players as seen in this thread are in denial or refuse to fix the issue.
So time to make the issue worse. Faction change, enjoy the advantages of the horde and let alliance die out completely to the point even horde is annoyed by that.
That is the only way for the devs to acknowledge the issue and do something, alliance has been in the worst state it has ever been and clearly that isn’t enough for the devs, make it worse by faction changing. I am planning to faction change within 1-2 weeks
Merc mode isn’t mixing the factions, when an Orc signs up for a battleground in merc mode they don’t go into the battleground as an Orc. All this is is a player temporarily playing the opposite faction. Your argument would only hold water if we weren’t able to play both factions.
As you can see, even though there are documented facts that show there is a huge faction imbalance issue and Alliance has been worse than it has ever been, there are many who deny it even exists, and devs refuse to do anything about it even though they saved their favorite child the horde back in WoD when they were losing even though it was nowhere near as bad as the current alliance issue.
Meanwhile facts
It is clear some people will remain in denial, they dont want to admit there is a problem so like i said, the only solution is to make the problem worse by faction change, make alliance die so much that the devs are finally forced to admit the issue and do something about it.
Honestly, when it comes down to some raids (not things like BoD of course) faction collusion makes sense even and could certainly be instigated more in the future.
How many times has lore said that we have “banded together” to fight greater threats? Something that Legion was incredibly strong on.
When it comes down to having to put aside our differences and take down N’zoth for example why wouldn’t we band together our strongest heroes?
Sure we don’t have to be chummy afterwards, but thematically it would make sense.
It’s not denial. It’s the fact that this “issue” wherever present (not on every server AT ALL) is player-caused. It’s caused by CHOICE and PERSONALITY. Developers cannot force people to the other side. You’ve mentioned yourself the plethora of incentives available and still people play where they want to play.
Read the study. You’ll see why it is not up to Blizzard to fix it. I’m tired of hearing this issue, especially from people that are 99% unaffected by it. Current Racials are NOT imbalanced to make a difference, and Alliance-heavy servers have plenty of progression groups.
Lore-wise the Horde has been losing every major conflict since Wrath and lost 3 Warchiefs, 2 Commanders with their major capital invaded TWICE.
YOU (the players) continue to choose to play in dead servers, in one-sided servers, and keep complaining that Blizzard has to fix it for you.
Mandating certain amounts of horde and alliance within a raid isn’t really necessary. Just allowing alliance and horde players to group together and do PVE content at all would more or less solve the problem. Growing faction disparity doesn’t actually matter if the raiding and M+ pools are shared.
You’re really starting to spam the forums on this topic, aren’t you? And it’s yet another terrible idea that give advantages to the side that (shockingly) you play.
Cross faction grouping for PVE content is the easiest and best answer at this point. No advantages to any faction.
Funny how that worked around the end of WoD when alliance was dominating and then poof, people went to horde, clearly they decided to do that because suddenly legion horde has “choice and personality” xD
Delusional.
It is only going to get worse until certain players and devs admit there is an issue and they start planning on finding a solution instead of pretending it cant be fixed while they did fix it when horde was dominating
That is what people like you have been saying LITERALLY since the game launched and here we are, still playing. No problems at all. Change faction if you think it’s so imbalanced you can’t enjoy the game. You’ll see how much it does not matter AT ALL.
Player choice is not anything blizzard can “solve” And cross faction play would change the entire thread of this game forever.
That’s why it’ll never happen. Also theres not a faction imbalance. I still get insta ques for dungeons, raids are plentiful, pvp insta que…like what are you pro faction merge people even talking about? Like world pvp? Who cares if you are outnumbered in word pvp - Lol the day this game is balanced around world pvp would be an incredible state of the game!
If it were not for the fact that the 100 top Mythic Raid kills for Alliance and Horde were an OFFICIAL WoW thing, then maybe I would question its validity. The fact that the Hall of Fame system however is an official system that Blizzard put into place so after the first 100 guilds on Horde and on Alliance clear it then Mythic becomes cross realm puggable.
While yes, 8.2 both Horde and Alliance have managed to reach 100 guilds the Alliance did it at a quite noticeably slower pace and its always commented on.
And then switching over to PvP, the Horde Dominate most PvP settings to the point that the faction imbalance was so bad that Blizzard had to change how the Nazjatar PvP event worked so that if it was too imbalanced, instead of running the PvP event in Warmode it will summon a bunch of bosses around the zone.
Faction Imbalance is so blatantly obvious in game that you have to be willfully ignoring all of the signs of it at this point to say it does not exist. Even Blizzard has acknowledged it and yet you are going to sit here and say its not?
