Development Preview: Cross-Faction Instances

[Zenazin-wyrmrest-accord]

Good, now maybe I can play my gnome priest kept safe by big strong orc and tauren escorts through dungeons. <3

[Pyri-shadowsong]

@Antkaya-stormrage

just make the factions relevant in the writing instead of this stupid ‘come together and hold hands’ crap

so to you relevance means “openly at war” and anything else is bad writing? i see

[Veldrea-frostmourne]

that would be the best, some factions in some servers are unplayable (aka Horde in OCE)

[Solarion-wyrmrest-accord]

Gotta add cross-faction guilds, Blizzard. Good move, but it doesn’t go far enough.

[Larrendias-moon-guard (Larrendias)]

More violence is more violence. I’m tired of Faction Safe Spaces.

[Åelin-thrall]

This is fantastic news! Hopefully we will get cross faction guilds at some point too! It would be nice to play with my friends again

[Cârna-azshara]

I literally just paid to take like 4 characters to Horde for rated PvP purposes a month ago man

[Kharneus-dalaran (Kharneus)]

It really isn’t specified WHICH war in the title of the game, so… War against big baddies counts.

[Kimmiroa-cenarius (Kimmiroa)]

I understand wanting to hold onto the foundation of wow, but for me I have lost friends to them wanting to push to higher content. Unfortunately in recent years most of the higher end pvp and pve community have gone horde. It’s gotten to a point that cross faction is the ONLY solution to this issue.

i.e. people were picking faction just based on the ability to play the game content they want to play vs picking a faction that appeals to them.

[Grumbles-hellscream (Grumbles)]

YAY! I’ve been suggesting this for ages - allow cross faction grouping as opt-in.

[Gintarue-area-52]

@Jessail-terenas

They aren’t locked out from mythic because they are on a different faction etc.

The guild banks argument makes sense.

Your comment about the Raids seems confusing though, because they’ve said either faction will be able to join a group for Mythic raiding, and it will then lock them into that group

[Autai-moon-guard (Autai)]

@Antkaya-stormrage

I’d only like cross-faction Guilds if they were permanently flagged for War Mode.

This would make more sense if you were only Alliance or Horde only though. Xfaction being hostile to both factions in Warmode is a must.

[Tovi-moon-guard (Tovi)]

Just let it go.

The WoW you’re playing today isn’t the WoW you played in 2004. Every thing is so drastically different and the story is so bad, this change doesn’t even matter.

Embrace the gnomes.

[Rotationn-illidan]

Lets be real, most of the griefers in here would never log in if it was a free for all pvp lol.

[Simplyred-hydraxis]

This is awesome. For years I’ve wanted my Horde and Alliance guilds to group together.

[Dethir-moknathal]

Will players be able to mail cross-faction within their account?

[Thunderçatz-zuljin (Thunderçatz)]

Amazing step forward, thank you for considering the idea and implementing it.

[Antkaya-stormrage]

@Pyri-shadowsong

so to you relevance means “openly at war” and anything else is bad writing? i see

Pick any fantasy setting. Point to me which ones that don’t have conflict.

[Rotationn-illidan]

Then never turn it on. Everyone else can enjoy PvE with as many people as possible. Win/win

[Annastasi-proudmoore]

@Ebolite-wyrmrest-accord

The sheer amount of forum posters praising this is disheartening

it’s an excellent change, but not one that goes far enough.

guilds are - or should be - the core of the community. This change does nothing to help guilds.

I’m a GM of a mythic raiding guild, and I don’t want to manage a raid roster via battle tag.
I don’t want to have to create and administer an alliance side guild for my alliance guildies, as well as a community to tie the alliance and horde guild together.
but nor do I want to lose my friends who feel strongly about switching back to alliance now that cross faction play will be a thing.

bad, bad call not extending this to guilds.