Let me explain the Alliance WM "buff"

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For some reason there are a lot of people that are having trouble understanding some very simple concepts. Let me explain.

  1. The horde are complaining now that the “buff” to WM for Alliance is not fair. “Why are they getting more than us!!!???”

It is very simple. The system rewards on a risk/benefit premise. For the horde the risk of turning on WM is very minimal (risk). You almost always have a numbers advantage and thus have little to fear. You enjoy your 10% boost (benefit) for basically free. The risk is very minor, so the benefit must also be minor.

For the Alliance, we are almost always outnumbered- in a big way. This vastly increases the risk of turning on WM. It can take an hour just to finish one quest if the hub is being stalked by horde, which they often are. With a much higher risk an equally increased reward/benefit must accompany it to make it worthwhile.

This is how the system works. Greater risk, greater reward. Lesser risk/smaller reward.

Understand now horde? Please stop crying about this and just enjoy your free 10%.

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i usually don’t use War Mode because i dislike PVP. but i still have to deal with Alliance members Ganking Questgivers even without Warmode. so even if you as a player aren’t getting ganked then Questgivers are still getting camped.

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Hey more of this spam. IDK whats more annoying. Horde complaining about it , or the alliance complaining about the people complaining

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Ugh, Alliance…

Look. I know “why” you got the buff.

/tosses 370 gear at your feet

Just go.

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“Risk free Horde”
Fly down on a turtle wq in Voldun to see 40 alliance waiting

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Everything in this post is correct. On the Alliance continent I see more horde then Alliance. I see absolutely no issue with a buff.

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I’ve been trying to level my Alliance DK through Legion content. Yesterday there were like 50 lvl120 Horde flying around all the invasion points in Ashzara during the assault, looking for Alliance to gank. Yeah, that 30% warmode buff is totally worth it, and Horde are totally getting the short end of the stick by it :roll_eyes:

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I’d rather some of these whining Horde take advantage of +30% XP to level an Alliance character for themselves and run around the world at 110-120 and see what it’s actually like.
They won’t, but I want them to.

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the 30% XP buff is something i literally know isn’t really worth it. the amount of time spent finding your corpse or amount of gold you spend on repairs far outweighs the 30% says the person with a level 50 Void Elf Rogue on an Overpopulated Server.

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Man my sharding is the exact opposite of the alliance posters. Half the time its nothing but full alliance groups camping wqs I encounter these days. Not that I don’t mind picking off the stragglers in those groups :slight_smile:

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Knowing you can get 1-2 pieces of 370 gear daily from incursions easily, how come people still consider that weekly reward relevant?

It doesn’t even allow you to target specific items, so, what is the point?

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Scrap it for Titan Residdum for Season 2 gear. I had a 390 tank begging me to trade him gear I picked up in LFR lol

The grind is real

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you get 2 pieces of 370 gear per day because Alliance. horde gets 1 piece of 370 per warfront cycle which is monthly.

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It’s the principle really for me now that I don’t need 370 gear.

I’d explain, but it would just be me being being disgusted by the lack of courage and fighting spirit in the Alliance unless there’s a nice piece of gear involved.

But Alliance don’t understand because they are Alliance.

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Horde has to do the Warfront Quest once per Monthly Warfront Cycle to get one Piece of Warfront Gear with pure RNG and no Bad Luck Protection. Alliance can get two pieces of 370 Incursion Gear every day and thus have more ability to target the pieces they want because more Die Rolls on the incursion loot unless i am wrong and they can actually choose what they get.

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Knowing you can get 1-2 pieces of 370 gear day from incursions easily,

Definitely not daily. The faction assault timers are incredibly inconvenient for the average gamer who works during the day. You end up getting a 1-2 a week. Let’s take the current example:

Next assault is 2 am tomorrow/tonight. Lasts 7 hours, so it’s done at 9 am when most of us go to work. So I get to sleep through that one. I’ll be around for the Weds/Thurs evening assaults, but will miss the Friday assault since I’ll be at work, will likely miss the Saturday morning assault since I’ll be with my bf, unless he let’s me game for a bit while he’s here, Sunday I will not be awake before 8 am so I’ll miss that. So that’s 2 guaranteed, 1 maybe in a 6 day period.

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even 1 a week for Alliance is better than 1 a month from Horde.

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The heck is this? The PvP quest is weekly, not daily, other than that you have the same chances of getting a 370.

I mean, the possibility of getting gear is still there, it is just not for everyone. I usually do not have time to do them and will definitely not wake up at 4-5 AM just to do some world quests.

I have seen people with the 750 emblems mount already, which is pretty darn ridiculous.

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Turn warmode on, do an incursion with the kill 25 horde quest, farm horde with the 100 other alliance in the area, collect 2 pieces of 370 gear, turn WM back off so we don’t lose the buff next week.

Ezclap

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This doesnt surprise me in the least, give a weasel an inch and he’ll always take 5 miles :wink: Always find ways to exploit the situation, I hope someone from Blizzard is reading what you wrote PurpleHerbie

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