Still a problem that needs to be fixed we need faction ques
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You are mistaken.
Was never a problem that needs to be fixed and faction queues are hands down the dumbest suggestion ever to grace the WoW forums (and thatâs some stiff competition).
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NahâŚ
Howâs the balance on Whitemane? Isnât that one of the better balanced servers anyway?
We need free faction changes for the dominant faction, in most cases horde Iâve been saying this before phase 2. Faction queues will do nothing but hurt players and not tackling the problem head on, but many alliance will be like âNo, you only want this for instant queuesâ. There is no changing their mind but I hope you and others look at this with an open mind. I want balanced servers for the good of classicâs future, not any other motives.
We have them, via Rerolls. Available to everyone on all realms.
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Re-roll my young grasshopper.
Itâs not a problem on pve servers. Give them a try.
Itâs not a problem on PvP servers either, itâs a feature of those servers that the factions are imbalanced.
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There are a few that are closer to 50/50.
hasnt in 15 years and will never will be play something else if it bothers you that much.
It was before the honor system came out. The Alliance population hasnât recovered, as they literally couldnât go out in the world for an entire month. It caused a lot of people to quit or transfer off or raid log.
Thatâs literally hyperbole.
I do understand that some people claimed to have quit during Phase 2, and some have stated that the reasons were because of faction imbalance.
Also, fwiw https://ironforge.pro/servers?region=us&filter=true is showing that as far as the almost 10000 characters who have been logged raiding during the past 2 weeks on Whitemane, the faction balance is near perfect.
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I left that server because the Qâs were absurd⌠Transfers did become possible later on, but the balance is roughly 60 /40 with the horde being the over populated faction.
With the insane number of undead priests on Whitemane I chose to re-roll alliance, my guild did all the same because we discussed it and saw that there were just too damn many horde players and knew the BGâs would be long Qâs for the horde (long term).
So we dropped out previous mains and re-rolled alliance and itâs been a good choice thus far.
IMO more people should do it; if youâre horde and want fast Qâs and are decent in PVP then PLEASE come join alliance side⌠Pick a new server if you must, but just roll alliance.
The baddies will stay horde and you will enjoy fast Qâs and everything else you wanted.
Donât expect the rest of the alliance to play well in pugâs they will never do this.
They could play, they could go out into the world during that month, they just often lost at PvP conflicts at that time. As that is part of the âPvP server experienceâ they signed up for itâs all good.
That doesnt account for people who literally sit in iron forge and dont go anywhere until raid time.
Thatâs correct. Thereâs also some consensus addon based data, and then thereâs word of mouth, and gut feel.
Unless you have some other data sources?
I was checking out server balances over the past few days and on Whitemane at every level range there was 3 to 4 times as many new Horde leveling up. Checking a high pop PvE server to Whitemane there was 3-4 times as many Ally leveling up.
The raiding statistics from IronForge is not a very good indication of overall server balances, you need a fresh influx of new players to replace all the ones that have quit, will quit or will server transfer off.
I know my personal experiences on your server was I better not go anywhere alone or Iâm gonna have a bad time. Not hard to believe someone might have a similar experience on another server.
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Certainly. I mean, as long as we understand what the words being used mean in:
we can easily see that it is hyperbole, and factually inaccurate.
I leveled during phase 2 on a Horde dominant server. I wasnât alone.
I also was able to quest through STV and Tanaris, on weekends, during peak hours.
Did I quest at the Burning Steppes? The one time I did was to start the Ony Attunement quests, and I got up very early on a Saturday morning to do it, and found a couple other people to party with.
Personally, I very much enjoyed phase 2. Some people didnât. Thatâs fine. Itâs not particularly helpful to exaggerate the conditions, and state that it was âliterally unplayableâ when it was still very much playable.
As, especially people who are on other servers, will not know that it is obvious hyperbole, and may take it at face value. I know I initially had, and it prompted an interest in spending several hours/days researching, and rerolling on various realms to see what was happening.
It is not Blizzardâs job to âfixâ anything that you say is a problem. Itâs that simple. In fact, itâs nobodyâs job. There is nobody whose job is to âfixâ every problem for you.
Classic is a copy of Vanilla. Vanilla never had faction-balanced servers.
âFaction-balanced serversâ is not a Blizzard design. It is a wacky, off-the-wall idea that players invented, because some players claim to imagine that it might fix some âproblemâ. What problem? That PVP players cannot act like they are on a PVE server. Thatâs the problem.
But Blizzard isnât going to let players re-design the game. Even if the players call it âa fixâ.
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