Alliance has many of the best racials now. They’re actually preferrable, as long as they’re good players. Top guilds would probably all race change given the chance. Being able to have access to all the racials in one raid will be a huge benefit.
It is a great first step, but we really need to just drop these barriers altogether. The story has been so contrived for so long with broken lore, you can’t even hang a hat on that as a reason anymore
merc mode failed in its goal specifically because of the changes to your toon. if you were an orc on the alliance team with a nelf, merc mode would be a lot more popular. atm the only people who can stomach the class changes are the ones who use it.
mixed factions in random and epic pvp would have to leave your toon as is.
That DOES seem strange, it’s the most obvious place to start since they already have Merc Mode for random BG’s.
Although, having cross-realm queues won’t actually reduce queue times. Unless you think one faction or the other has a massive surplus of tanks or healers (which seems unlikely).
Honestly, factions are an archaic product of toxic patriarchy. We need to get with the times and remove factions entirely. It’s 2022 I thought we were moving forward.