its time. kkthx
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randoms are already Xfaction but only alliance can do it so it’s not like a change like this should be super hard to do.
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Blitz cross-faction is true cross-faction. What we have with Merc and Random is garbage cross-faction.
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Would fix tons of issues.
- Would greatly deter multi group premades.
- Even out queue times.
- Could help curb the premade groups.
- No more bgs with healers stacked on one side.
- Premades would have a harder time stacking.
- Prevent class stacking.
- Lower chance that a premade group will be able to stay together.
- Could easily implement ilvl balancing so teams were roughly equally geared.
- Something something premades suck.
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we do indeed have garbage xfaction for regular bg’s. glad its an option but really kind of base most of my toons around a racial or roleplaying theme. not having a dranei heal and swapping to tauren or something absolutely effects my gameplay. sure, tauren warstomp is neat but when you play dozens of maps as a dranei mage you kind of rely on it in sticky situations. etc etc. please implement with next patch!
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Yup it’s time to update battlegrounds for 2025.
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they wont. someone is benefitting from this internally $$
As much as I like the faction warfare, as long as they didn’t have it like they have it in bg’s where you get race changed it would be fine.
That makes no sense. It doesn’t help the conversation to bring up conspiracy theories like that.
Yeah, I don’t understand why it’s supposedly difficult to do this. Why not just allow merc for both sides 24/7, to start with anyway.
Even with true cross faction they’d still need to greatly improve matchmaking. If not, you’d probably still get 5 groups on one side and none or 1 on the other, and people would still be complaining. In other words, they need to match the groups, even with cross faction.
And yep I agree with people who want to keep their race and racial rather than turning into a different race. I think that’s a major requirement for “true cross faction.”
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Sure. They’d have to limit the amount of groups that can join any side.
And yea, should just be like blitz. No race changing weirdness.
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Cross faction (just like blitz, meaning no race changes, and you can be matched with and against members of both factions, ending up on either the horde or alliance side of a match independent of your actual faction).
Role balancing, so both teams have an equal number of tanks, healers, and damage. This already happens at max level random battlegrounds but not epics. Just apply it to every type of battleground queue at all levels now.
Group balancing, so if one team has a group, the other team will as well. If one team has 2 groups, the other will. Will match groups of similar size against each other meaning a group of 5 will face either a group of 5 or 4 on the other team. A group of 4 will face a group of 3-5. Etc.
Item level balancing, so it will attempt to balance the item level of the players in each role between the two teams. So for example if there’s 2 geared healers and 2 ungeared healers, it would give each team 1 geared and 1 ungeared healer instead of giving one poor team both ungeared healers. This would be a loose rule, meaning if there’s 3 geared healers and 1 ungeared healer, one team would still get stuck with an ungeared healer but this is a compromise for queue times and still better than what we have now.
This would also apply to low level battlegrounds.
These changes would not really affect queue times, except maybe if you’re queueing as a group of 5 since you’d have to wait for a group of 4-5 to fight against and depending on the ilvl and role of your team, could take a bit longer to find a match.
For solo players or those in smaller groups it wouldn’t affect queue times.
Would not fix every problem, but would generally improve match quality, making them more fair more often, and also greatly cut down on queue sync premades.
Would make low level battlegrounds much better.
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Thanks ChatGPT.