Rework Lightforged Draenei racial traits and allow them to be Rogues and Monks.
Allow Night elf/Gnome Paladins. (Nelf pally already exists as NPCs and these two have been around humans enough)
A skinny variant for KT humans.
Allow Dwarf to be Druid since Wildhammer is customization now.
No. Because both factions are at war with someone every expansion anyways.
There is no faction Imbalance.
People are going to complain even if you give them everything they ask for.
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In raw characters no there isn’t a faction imbalance…in actual player participation in both pvp/pve there is quite a large imbalance. These can all be checked in percentages based on the boards along with players at level 120. I offer no solution to that it is what it is weather it be snowball effects from past racials, flavor, blizzcon representation, allied races whatever. It is blizzards issue to deal with it as they see fit or not, players offering solutions I doubt will have any effect whatsoever.
My own personal take is that primary mains do majority of higher end pvp/pve with their horde toons, and alliance is heavily comprised of said horde alts doing mostly transmog, light raiding, pets ect. The bias debate goes nowhere…its not a player created issue to me. Blizzard produces products, player will buy and do what they want how they want, spend what they want. If something is failing ingame its a result of them failing to sell said product.
people keep saying this – create a deserter feature… what they should have swapped over the allied races i.e. alliance can create the horde allies and visa versa
Imagine a moment deserter feature gnomes leaving the Alliance to join the Horde… would be kind of funny.
Its amazing how basically none of these ideas would effect faction balance where its actually hurting.
Higher end m+, pvp, raiding.
Racials aren’t causing the current participation imbalance.
Not being able to RP as a skinny KT or Tauren on the Alliance isn’t causing the participation imbalance.
Cross faction grouping isn’t effecting the participation imbalance.
The first two wouldn’t change it, and the last is giving up on trying to change it.
I wouldn’t. I’d just make guilds cross faction. Problem solved.
While not a fix, i would let alliance and horde group for pve content (except maybe BoD of course). The only way to “fix” it really at this point is to do what they did originally, but in reverse. They’d have to give alliance an edge over horde by buffing racials, then in a few years, reverse it again, and ping pong players back and forth so neither faction’s end game community dies.
New players arnt the issue almost everyone ive know made their first character alliance and overall population is pretty much 50/50. Its when it comes to max level doing end game content that many people swap to horde for raiding guilds as the max level population is closer to 54% horde 46% alliance.
Its a hard balance to strike and the only real idea i have to revearse it is what caused it in the first place. The innital start of people swapping to horde was because many of the top guilds at the time were being horde purely based on better raiding racials. The mechagnomes currently have what will be the new best raiding racials even if they nerf the dps ones a bit because having the dps on top of the premium survival tool is just that good for prog raiding. This wont fix the issue immediately but if method goes alliance for the slight edge of racials then over time many people will fallow.
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Remove racials, give Void Elves human skin tones.
That’s a joke.
I’d just rework racials a bit so that they’re more balanced, or at the very least, give both sides OP options.
Stop making Alliance the good guys all the time. It makes them boring. Also stop with the Warchief shuffle already, once was forgivable, twice was an outrage, three times is just silly. They literally don’t have an Orc faction leader anymore cause they killed them all. Not really sure whose leading the Forsaken or the Darkspear either. That bull needs to stop.
Also can we all agree that Tyrande didn’t need black eyes to be a badass and that whole subplot was like some kind of gothic person who doesn’t actually understand that some gothic styles include colour painting over the last of the colour in black because they lack sophistication or nuance. I mean they are already CALLED night elves. They were the WoW equivalent of Drow at least before the Nightborne stole their thunder.
Basically whoever has that weird obsession with making the Night Elves edgy when they were already a pretty sensible level of edgy to begin with needs to be found and handcuffed so they can’t write any of their ideas down.
Also in general make the writers less shallow and surface level. It’s blatantly obvious the current writers only see the existing races as stereotype which is why they often use Forsaken and Orcs as villain protagonists and don’t touch the more nuanced stuff that happened in the Base game with a ten-foot pole. Because they don’t find those more sympathetic but flawed versions of the Forsaken and Orcs and the Horde in general to fit their villain protagonist fantasy
Which is also why they often ignore the Alliance except to give them quests based around knock-offs of pop-culture. Because they are surface level and so pop-culture references are the only thing they can think of to make non-edgy characters entertaining.
well I’m not sure but for me, void elf dk single handedly pulled me away from the horde since 2009.
I’ve noticed the vast majority of people asking for this are Alliance. All I hear is “Carry me!!”
Eliminate pet battles, transmogs, and mount collecting. Then the casual alliance will be forced to push content. There is no faction imbalance. The factions just attract different types of players.
Sethrak and Tortollan join the Alliance might help but 15 years in it is pretty much impossible at this point without giving Alliance some super OP racials.
Only way you save the faction imbalance at this point is allow cross faction play. Unfortunately Blizzard cashes in on server transfers so they could care less.
MAYBE MAYBE get rid of the stupid rule of not allowing cross server Mythic until 100 Alliance guilds clear the Mythic version. Alliance never meets this goal.
Maybe allow Blood Elves on both sides since there is serious justification for this in the lore right now. This would require them to rework Silvermoon logic and the quest line that starts after level 20 but that would take all of 10 minutes but like I said THEY DO NOT CARE about the faction imbalance.
The problem is at end game and high end Mythic players are all on the Horde side. Guilds just cannot field 20 man teams on the Alliance side reliably so servers just die a slow death for Alliance.
Nerf horde racials. Nerf them to the ground and people will go to alliance. Then nerf alliance racials until basically, race is just cosmetic.
I would do faction server grouping. Alliance could probably all server together tbh.
Tbh, i know alliance vs horde is a pillar of wow…but world pvp is non existant…i see enemy faction in the qorld it doesnt matter.
It feels like an arbitrary no go zone for enemy faction cities and story…nothing else…so why should it matter in raids/guilds ect?
I feel like the seperation uas more negatives than positives…in leiu of a creative single faction just group servers by faction with cross faction zones for pvp…not that pvp exists.
Allow both sides to queue/group for dungeons and raids together. It’s not like either are centered around the " war " we’re so tired of and bored with. It’s also not like people don’t set aside differences to get things done, they call them uneasy alliances. Or people who just want nothing to do with the war. Etc. Etc. Many reasons for it to happen. The " MUH PVP " crowd seems to hate the idea though.
Cross faction queues would do nothing. Qued content isn’t where there is a problem. The problem is at the top. Mythic raiding. Changing qued content will not effect them at all.