The faction imbalance is PvP based.
People want to join whatever faction is winning most of the time (horde).
Lore followers will gravitate more toward horde as they inherently encourage PvP more than the peace seeking alliance. So… more horde players.
So… unless there is a lore based, horde extermination campaign along with unfair advantages given to alliance (something along the lines of the old EMFT), I don’t see people wanting to switch.
Who cares if the alliance dies, it dies.
I don’t know what you’re talking about. You mean that you have to pay to respec? That’s s good gold sink.
And heroic raiding.
And normal raiding.
And Mythic+ dungeons.
So, once again you’re wrong.
I’ve never seen anyone complain about a lack of normal/heroic raiding on Alliance side. Since normal & heroic both scale, I wouldn’t think it an issue.
As for Mythic+, you’re correct that Alliance has a huge advantage there, largely because of Shadowmeld. So if you want to advocate for buffing Horde racials to be on par with Alliance, be my guest.
There can be no peace with the horde.
Fire the current crop of devs writing horde-only fanfic as lore and give Alliance players things they want, which do not include taking the high road, holding hands, staying their blades and begging for peace. Alliance has an image problem as a simpering nonce like Anduin leading it doesn’t help things at all.
Exactly, the Alliance should be ‘good’ by virtue that it kills Horde, and nothing more.
Every time there’s a thread like this, I see you post things that are just absolutely incorrect. This thread is no different.
It’s been stated again, and again, and again that raiding trickles down. The Mythic raiding guilds are simply the most visible. Alliance-side the heroic guilds, or second-tier mythic guilds (guilds that spend most of their time going after AOTC but still get down some mythic bosses), are feeling the squeeze and more than a few of them have also gone horde for recruitment.
This is not an opinion.
This happens.
Read.
Read what I typed.
What I said is the exact opposite of what you claim I said.
Horde has the advantage in mythic+ because M+ is also involved in the trickle-down from mythic raiding. Players that raid also run dungeons. This means that all of the talent in M+ has consolidated horde-side. Alliance are effectively non-viable in M+.
And shadowmeld? You’re still going on about shadowmeld?
Lets go over this once again. Shadowmeld is NOT that powerful in M+. MDI is NOT proof of alliance dominance.
The LEADERBOARDS are what define which faction is dominating, and they point to the Horde being heavily dominant.
Racial advantage in content will move the needle a few hundred dps, when we’re measuring our output in hundreds of thousands. Racials don’t matter anymore and haven’t mattered in a LONG TIME.
Shadowmeld has been invalidated this tier by the N’Zoth mechanic everywhere but the MDI which is a sterile environment that doesn’t matter outside of the MDI (which is something apologists like yourself just can’t seem to wrap your heads around).
Basically, “shadowmeld in the MDI!” isn’t an argument. Not ever, because the MDI isn’t an argument. Outside of the MDI every single MDI competitor is Horde, and that is what actually matters.
Racials.
Don’t.
Matter.
Learn how to read.
Im the CEO of blizz?
Easy. I delete the alliance from the game. No more faction imbalance.
remove vulpera
and this silly war finally comes to an end
Well then, HoF isn’t proof of Horde dominance.
The alliance has plenty of people. It’s not Blizzard’s fault you don’t like to push content. Take solace in winning fashion shows and pet battles.
If you want more alliance to raid that’s up to you. Maybe give an impassioned speech in trade channel?
Please stop your whining and asking big daddy Blizz to help. This is player preference, nothing else. Especially not some racial nonsense that happened 8 years ago.
I don’t know how to fix the faction “imbalance”
but I’d defintely revert the massive nerfs on EMFH, just because some bads couldn’t get to 2k because of a single racial doesn’t mean that it’s magically OP.
Drop the faction division in PvE and keep it as a PvP ONLY element.
The loss in subscriber revenue from those who feel salty about combining PvE with members of the other faction are definitely in the minority.
Offset the loss in revenue from faction transfers by introducing more cosmetic items to the in-game shop.
All I hear is “Horde carry me!!”
Never gonna happen (thankfully).
I’ll be honest
The reason I don’t play Alliance is because of the people.
In my experience, Alliance players are usually middle aged, and are no fun.
I do not want to play WoW with a librarian that reads self help books and drinks expensive tea in her free time.
Not because she’s a bad person, but because she’s boring.
There’s a good chance it will happen. I don’t mind playing with Alliance players as long as it increases the player pool in PvE.
Source? Blizzard said it’s not happening.
Offer free faction change from the overcrowded to the lesscrowded along with free pick of race. Cooldown per character is 3 months. AND guild would have to be moveable too.
Super easy.