Faction population

Anyone here see any more recent straw poll or data showing how faction will be made up.

Reason I’m asking is in bfa and I remember the same issue in wotlk and bc. Horde always had longer bg Q. I hate waiting 20+ minutes to enter a battleground. Simply because some nights I don’t have a lot of time after work.

Alliance still has instant Q on the servers I play on. Has anyone seen any credible data on this?

I guess it’s hard to factor because more players roll horde for PVP racial and thus PVP more, and more people do the same for pve with alliance. And don’t talk about private servers because I think those has much more min/max community which would further divide the difference in PVP v pve racial bonus.

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Depends on the server really. For example if Asmon pick a server and no big streamer or guild goes to counter that move it ~could~ be possible that Alliance rule that server and the horde all reroll else where. Queue times for them would be far higher then.

On the other hand if blizzard locks server pops to a certain % difference you could see some inblanace but it could work out better than some of the live servers did.

I would expect the usually split on PvP and PvE servers with Horde being more on pvp and less on PvE. Though with the information we have we know alliance has some advantages to make raiding easier, it may be the case there are more Alliance players this time around. As there is no hard data and using P-Server info is a simple one off its hard to really determine the spread until later.

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Cross realm battlegrounds were in during 1.12
They are going with 1.12

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I don’t think this has been confirmed yet. I saw threads saying people don’t want it and others saying they do. But to my knowledge blizzard has not commented on if there will be cross realm yet. Please inform me if they have responded.

In Vanilla it was the opposite. Blame Blood Elves for your long queue.

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Yes it has been confirmed. Check WoW Head you will find it there pretty sure. We are getting CRBGs.

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CRBG’s “confirmed” in Phase 3.

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Classic is going to have cross realm BGs so queues shouldn’t really be an issue.

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I’m rolling Alliance simply because it’s far cooler. Hmm medieval city, city in a mountain, city in a giant tree vs some huts with spikes and red cloth. Smh Horde have no sense of fashion.

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Spikes were not a thing till, Garosh

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CRBG is unfortunate. And if there are significantly more Horde than Alliance interested in PVP, queues will still be longer for Horde. CRBG doesn’t magically equalize the number of each faction in the queue.

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i always wondered why they diddnt just burn down the tree…

oh wait they did.

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That burned down tree still looks better than Orgrimmar

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that’s rough, I always experienced the exact opposite.

Peaceful city on mile high buttes, underground city.

Your bias is showing.

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Taurens are the only one with a cool city. Undercity is a cool concept but a bad execution.

He’s not wrong though. Thunder bluff is my favorite, but undercity is a wreck to navigate.

Thanks for the links by the way. It has been confirmed. So that’s both good and bad which I won’t get into, but still not sure if that will have an impact. I still have Q now on bfa and it’s all cross pvp

That’s because the Horde Racials are seen as the 1% worth flipping factions for.

But it will be the same or worse in classic. For PVP purposes which is why I imagine q will be even longer…

Not for Horde. Alliance have the superior racials.

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