You’d expect at least 1 alliance guild but nope…its all horde as always. There has to be a point where they just drop this “alliance vs horde” thing already…unless they plan another future pointless faction war as always. Alliance is nearly finished off with serious players on horde side cause of OP racials that break the game while alliance is just side-activities PVE racial or dying to use use racial(lightforged).
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What horde radicals are being used the most?
Ion already said they don’t have any ideas on how to address faction balance. (Very, very paraphrased here.)
Basically, the genie is out of the bottle and they don’t know how to redress it without buffing Ally racials.
Troll’s mini-hero, tauren’s stomp stun, blood elf’s AOE magic buff removal, to name a few.
Or reworking alliance racials as a whole to be as competitive as hordes.
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They are just being dumb. The faction war is complete nonsense and doesn’t work. Remove all faction barriers and be done with it.
At best, keep the factions as mostly an RP thing.
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That would not encourage a movement back to ally.
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Never happen. Sorry.
Instead of looking for Horde carries, why not L2P?
Giving Alliance good allied races instead of completely terrible unpopular choices would’ve been a good start.
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Nothing is going to move people back to alliance except making the factions unbalanced in favor of the alliance. And that’s going to cause a lot of howling and discontent. It’s not going to happen, just get rid of factions so it doesn’t matter anymore.
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Sorry, I don’t speak troll.
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You blame racials but the truth is that alliance just don’t have a race even 10% as sexy as Tauren.
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They’d have to make them way overpowered and then we’d just end up with the same issue just from the other side.
People are always going to flock to where they see any increase in power (even if that is just having a large pool of players). There’s not really anything they can do to change human nature.
Good allied races in what sense?
A pretty and interesting allied race isnt going to make WF guilds go alliance.
I always see this, and I can’t help but remind people all the time that Horde racials are not that busted. Alliance racials make up the bulk of the esports scene because the racials are actually impactful. Shadowmeld in the MDI, EMFH / Shadowmeld / Fire Blood in the AWC. Horde racials are not why people are Horde. It’s because of a snowball effect.
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You take away faction lock, make all classes playable with each other. War mode = open world pvp.
This will never fix is the issue.
The answer is simple.
Allow guilds to be cross faction. The lore and mechanics of the game can remain the same (Horde guards attack alliance, etc). But guilds need a Cross faction play so people can play what they want with who they want.
Hell, it’s even upheld by the lore that this would work. The Shadowlands does not care about factions, Baine is working with Jaina.
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Yeah, he had a good take on that, too. He acknowledged that historically it appeared it was horde racials, but that now the imbalance has reached critical mass and the horde attract more folks simply on numbers and social connections.
I don’t know how you’d ‘fix’ this issue without a systemic change of the faction system or a very inelegant, massive buff to alliance. Which I don’t think is the right way to go.
Interestingly, the factions seem to be less of the determining ‘demographic’ in the current game than covenant difference. We actively choose our covenant - only one race really gets to choose which faction they belong to.
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Death to the horde! For the alliance!
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And then when the Shadowlands ends, we’ll be back to killing one another again as per usual. Legion didn’t care about factions either, and we went right back to killing one another.
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This still works with cross faction guilds though.
Take the Twilight’s Hammer for example. Lorewise they are a guild in a sense. They have cross faction play.
There is nothing against lore allowing Guild Crossplay. None.