I used group finder to complete the weekly world boss Mor’geth and was accepted into a cross-faction raid group. I’m Alliance and was unable to cast heals on the Horde players during the encounter. This really cannot be working as intended or am I understanding cross-faction groups wrong?
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Bump. This is frustrating. I just got blamed for “not healing” when i CANT heal…??? is there an on/off switch I don’t know about???
Maybe it’s not specifically cross-faction? Have you checked for differences in PvP flagging? There’s an old bug where players in a group with mix warmode settings can’t get healed (specifically, a healer can’t heal a character whose warmode setting is different from theirs).
The workaround for that is to make sure everyone in group either has all warmode on or (more likely) all warmode off.
But again, that’s true only if it’s the warmode difference bug. If it really is just the cross-faction grouping thing, you would think every cross-faction group would just blow up because of the consistent limits on healing.
Necroing this post because it’s still a problem. I don’t think it’s a warmode thing because I am pretty sure nonWM and WM players get phased from each other.
I did the world boss in ZM and the only healers were alliance, only tank was horde. Tank died and we almost wiped because of it. I couldn’t heal half the group and thought it was a UI bug, until someone told me you can’t heal crossfaction in world content. Yet you can group together.
Also apparently if it’s a warmode crossfaction group in world content, AoE from opposite faction hurts you.
Doesn’t seem like it’d be too hard to make being in same group in world content act as though you are all of same faction. It’s been at least 5 months and this is still a broken feature in the wild.
You’re not the only one, I was cross-factioning today and had the exact same problem, and was 100 percent NOT Warmode on either person. (We never PvP, we’re on an RP realm for a reason.) Can’t trade with the other faction items that dropped in group either. I was pretty disappointed, what’s the point of having the ability to group when all the other faction can do is hold a spot lifelessly?