I dont know how you can know that. If you go on just the noisy people here posting their High Elf threads you are getting an inaccurate sense of the matter. I never hear anyone on my Alliance servers or chat moaning about that, they are just generally happy to make the Velfs, as I have.
Its rather like the thing with people coming here to yell that no way, they will never play with those Horde/Alliance scum etc. Everyone I’ve spoken to loves the idea and the chance to play with friends. I feel this apparent mad dedication to a faction is overblown. Ultimately what people want and care about is playing the game. Whatever makes that more fun and social is seen as a positive.
if you consider crossrealm would still take long to be enabled, will be pointless swap for ally, unless you’re willing to play on a server crowded of opposite faction, maybe with dead AH since won’t be crossfaction, if you’re up for that okay. Rather than that would be a high effort for nothing
9.2 isn’t live yet and they said that 9.2.5 won’t even go to the PTR until 9.2 has been released. So given how long it will be until 9.2., and then the ptr for 9.2.5 and then it goes live, we are probably looking at 6 months or so until Xfaction comes out. Which is more than enough time to level a new character to cap and get it geared.
lt doesnt matter about servers being heavily slanted one way or the other because with the introduction of Xfaction if Horde is the major size then Alliance players can create groups and take players from both Horde and Alliance.
My question was mostly that with the Xfaction enabled, people could play Alliance characters for the fun of it, and still get to play with their Horde friends. If they wanted to.
For a purpose to play with friends, still doesn’t change much, now I can carry my Ally Friend through M+, But I can’t raid mythic with my Nelf druid till Crossrealm release, I don’t think ppl would change bc of that , unless doesn’t care much about that. Blizz gotta give more reasons for swap. It seems more like "We can’t fix Faction Balance , Let’s make the easy way "
In group finder you could list your groups like “WORLD PVP COME FIGHT ME” someone from the opposite faction joins, goes to you, and PVP definitely happens.
On Oceanic it’s the opposite - I know friends who loved Horde but hopped over to Alliance for better access to greater numbers of players doing that content.
Up until now I have been 100% hell no I’m not touching Alliance.
This at least will make me go ahead and check out some character customization options, that I haven’t even looked at before.
Haven’t made a Worgen since Cata. Haven’t even unlocked any of the Alliance allied races.
Maybe I’ll make a Worgen / Kul’tiran druid.
There’s still major issues though. For example Alliance have 0 presence on my server. And I don’t really want to wipe my gold for some characters.
I swapped Horde to push keys because nobody plays keys in PUGs above 21 Alliance-side. I can go back to Alliance with this change and still push keys so I consider that a big win.
No as you’re still entirely seperated from your Horde guild, once they give up this idea of trying to appease the “MUH LORE” crowd and just enable cross faction full-stop than yep my Shaman will be going Draenei because I just personally absolutely love the Space Cow animations
Not even close. And the last look we had at representative race data showed a better mix of its population between Tauren, Orc, Undead, and Trolls than Alliance had for anything after Humans and NE.
I think as evidenced by the covenants they know that people will almost always choose better racials better population better powers whatever.
Like covenants the faction should be more of a cosmetic RP choice than a power choice. I saw the benefits with ESO and the three factions and one tamriel
And besides if people really want their conflict they always have war mode
A lot of people will stay horde with their guild if that doesn’t become cross faction as well
I already moved all of my things back to alliance with the holidays sale and it feels amazing to know i’ll never have to go horde again on my toons lol
hey at least I hold my allegiance to the cow races
