I’m sorry but this is just completely misguided to the point to where I don’t even know where to start. Your whole mindset and arguments is based around the thought that a faction actually has a collective thought process. So there’s no getting to you if this is the base of how you think.
There have been tons of seasons that have been almost exclusively alliance. It has to do with incentives to play on both factions. If people in retail decide the racials are too strong they will swarm that faction. I haven’t played retail in awhile but when I did bgs didn’t mean jack squat. At least not even close to like tbc so literally everything you said is irrelevant
ok then I’m advocating for horde to fight against eachother, just like we do in arena with no problems
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Lol “Outlandish”. GET IT?!
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they can still implement a fix for it, just like they did for alliance in p2. they knew ahead of time that most servers were overwhelmingly played by horde and they rolled on them anyway
Exactly. They don’t care when it’s arena but all of a sudden it’s an enormous issue when it’s BGs? Silly. They are really just petty & want horde players to continue to suffer for some reason. Mercenary mode would have zero effect on the amount of fun they are having playing WoW. Assuming they are capable of such a thing.
Arena is Arena, BG is BG. Just because they’re both pvp doesn’t mean they’re the same. Merc mode would make Alliance obsolete even further as a faction in game which is where exactly Alliance is on retail.
Every class and choice you make has good and bad, live with it.
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No I’m not misguided I told you exactly what I meant I’m sorry what you were saying was irrelevant to that
Mercenary moed is already an option squirtmaster, go alliance right now.
I rolled horde to play with my friends. So, yeah, it is relevant.
Isn’t the bigger issue faction imbalance in general?
Alliance players are constantly outnumbered, griefed, bullied and outmuscled out from questing zones and prevented “from playing the game”
When this issue is raised Horde players just lol, but when level-capped Horde players have to wait in a queue for a bg and are prevented “from playing the game” suddenly its relevant?
All mercenary mode will solve is one of the many symptoms of faction imbalance, and it will come at a cost as shorter queue times is one of the few benefits playing the less popular faction has
you do realize that merc mode wont take away alliance instant queues.
have you ever queued for arena? its near instant because theres no barriers between factions, the horde fight eachother in arena
And what about the greater issue at hand?
Merc mode just seems like a rushed short sighted fix to appease rather than worrying about the long-term effects,
Trying to solve the greater problem of faction imbalance would solve both issues (alliance being unable to play in the greater world / quest without being pushed out as well as horde having faster queue times and can pvp at end-game) or do we only care about Horde here?
No one is making this argument.
The argument is that world accessibility for alliance on pvp realms is already terrible.
Merc mode further incentivizes people to play horde, which further deteriorates alliance game play.
Your queue time is not worth wrecking the rest of the game over, sir.
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ok so if youre having a hard time playing alliance on pvp realms, just reroll? lol like its so easy to just reroll? isnt this round and round game fun and healthy for the game?
well i never want to group with a crappy allly id rather stop pvp all togher
I have a far better idea.
you can reroll, given that you are the one crying about your queue times.
The rest of us are going to sit back and hate open world content and instanced bg content because alliance bgs and world content are fairly miserable experiences.
Meanwhile, you’re going to sit in your long queues until you figure out how bad the honor gear is, and what an actual commitment it is to attain regardless.
I’ll be glad when the 9.1 tourists go back home, tbh.
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It amuses me to no end that you actually want to discuss “the health of the game” while effectively advocating for the disruption and likely destruction of Alliance play experience because you are a child and can’t be asked to sit in a long queue because you wanted baby mode pvp.
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Honestly I, for one, am enjoying the Horde’s temper tantrum.
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Of course you did. Every horde in this forum rolled that faction to play with their “friends.” Not a single horde in the entire game of WoW has ever chosen to play horde because of racials.
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merc will be out when WoD classic releases, we shouldnt have to wait too much longer