Follower Dungeons are CROSS-FACTION? EW!

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Rant Warning

As a PvP player that only does the lowest difficulty of PvE content to experience the story, this is extremely disapointing.

I hope this is just the “initial phase” and that we will get to choose different followers down the line, especially if they expand this feature to previous expansion dungeons for leveling.

Follower Dungeons could be an amazing way to allow leveling players to follow the stories of current and previous expansions, however the forced cross-faction completely destroys the immerssion.

I love the majority of what Blizzard has been doing with Dragonflight, but this hyper-forced cross-faction is very alienating.

Cross-faction cooperation within the story has always been a last resort exception, not a rule.

Side Note

Warcraft Rumble has the same problem with forced cross-faction.

In Rumble, one of the bosses in Ashenvale, Raene Wolfrunner, presumed to be a Silverwing Sentinal, is guarded by two Orc Warsong Riders :-1:

EDIT: 1/13/24 2:58 PM EST

EDIT: 1/13/23 9:04 PM EST

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I’m slightly confused, do you mean the NPC followers might be from either faction?

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World of Warcraft’s YouTube account just posted a few minutes ago revealing the Followers for Follower Dungeons.

It’s made up of a cross-faction team

  • Tauren
  • Human
  • Dwarf
  • Worgen
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The faction thing is over. Get over it.

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we cant pick the npcs?

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Blizzard crossed the lines a long time ago… [kum-ba-yah- ya] Cats and Dogs living together… mass hysteria…

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Is that going to be a set group, or will there be any variance?

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They aren’t cross faction players though. I guess you can trash talk the opposite faction npc then. :wink:

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“You’ve been reported for violating the social contract”

Sounds of Bronzebeard laughter in the distance

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I thought we could because i was certain this is the first time ive seen that dwarf and the orc lady is missing.

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Probably will be able to in a future patch

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I hope this means cross-faction queue is just around the corner… With an option to opt-out for people who are willing to put up with longer queues because they don’t want to play with the opposite faction I guess.

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I don’t think it’s going to happen. But that would be cool if you can create your own team for the followers. You can create unknown characters or some lesser known characters. Could be one race or multiple races. It would be like a hero and their team

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Times are changing. Roll with it or stay mad. Cross faction everything is the future.

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Then Blizzard can look forward to a continuously shrinking playerbase, as they vomit all over the one distinguishing feature of WoW over all its competitors.

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Huh? That ‘one distinguishing feature’ was done in other games before WoW (DAoC, CoX, Planetside) and was done in a superior way in several (EverQuest, CoX again).

EDIT: What won people to WoW was a combination of the franchise’s legacy as well as its ease of use. The faction conflict was just another feature atop the game, not its ‘distinction’.

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I’m sure you’ll find a way to cope.

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And there was a massive and unprecedented return of players at the start of Warlords of Draenor because… why, exactly?

Because the Horde is unique and different.

Blizzard has largely written the Horde out of the game since Legion, much to their detriment.

WoW players like the Horde, even though Blizzard’s staff doesn’t.

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I am still waiting for you to quit since you said you would if cross faction became a thing. You aren’t quitting you are addicted…

Go play classic if you want to continue crying about beating that dead horse.

Had more to do with nostalgia returning to outland than faction conflict. People were sick of orcs 2 weeks into the xpac.

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