Awesome!!!
Would be cool implementing a dynamic lockout, let’s say once there’s 55% of a faction logged in, a queue starts for that faction.
That would make it so that’s the biggest imbalance that it could occur at any given time.
Problem solved.
Why not just have one megaserver per region (why do we need to worry about spreading people over even 2 or 3 servers at this point?) and faction balance shards like you do in retail war mode?
One megaserver with War Mode would have been much better for a larger audience to experience the new Ashenvale PvP. People who don’t want to PvP 100% of the time likely would have enjoyed participating in it more with War Mode and faction balanced sharding.
Your way sounds pretty potentially lame if someone has a friend that wants to come play with them later on and they can’t because that faction is locked. War Mode and a single server also would have been better if you have several different friend groups and they don’t all want to play on one server or in one ruleset all the time.
edit: Also, if we have to split people onto a small number of servers for technical reasons, it seems like you could also have made them all connected realms and/or allowed xserver grouping between them to avoid splitting up friends and never have to worry about split server balancing at all.
You could also offer free faction swaps instead of doing faction locks if one faction becomes too dominant (sorry pallies and shaman). Alternatively you could offer an xp boost to the smaller faction to encourage people to re-roll to it more easily.
I feel like the only major pitfall would be a situation where you can’t make a toon of a specific faction on any PvP realm.
Also what constitutes imbalance between the factions? 60/40? 70/30? 80/20?
If we could have an RP-PVP realm, that’d be great.
And if you guys could NOT merge a bunch of other random servers into it and destroy the community like with Grobbulus, that’d be even greater.
Based on wrath servers and throughout TBC the MOST balanced server to date is Grobbulus which is an RPPVP server. Please read this and take into consideration 1 RPPVP server for both US and EU. Please and thank you.
Oh my…. Gettin my PvP juices flowing again.
i havent played on a pvp server in many years, if you pick a pvp server are you allowed to have both factions on the 1 realm?
Also, are the pvp servers the only ones that allow the battle of the zone events?
Thank you for responding. I’m hoping it’ll be a fun time!
High hopes for PvP realm balance. Thanks for attempting something.
But will we have a name reserve this week?
How are people already crying about faction restrictions? If you want to play imbalanced trash servers go play wotlk.
If the balance check is done correctly this will be amazing.
This doesn’t sound at all like what they are saying. Instead it sounds like they will limit character creation if the servers become too lopsided.
Why would they do that? So that players can confirm their biases? So that players engaged in PvP can say ‘oh, the reason that I lost or am losing is because I’m on the faction that has the 45 out of 55% ratio?’ When in reality, total server population ratios are hardly representive of what shows up in moment to moment PvP hotspots. Do we really want to further skew player perceptions around why they’re losing, further fostering narratives of victomhood as it relates to ‘the losing faction’ or ‘the less populated faction?’ I don’t think that’s particularly wise.
Seriously hoping we get RP-PVP servers, Zandalar Tribe was the best server EU side and Grobbulus was the best server US side. Please Blizzard, you added RP-PVP last minute to classic and it was a fantastic addition. Please dont forget to add RP-PVP to SoD
In terms of faction balance, the balance on Grobbulus as an RP-PVP server has always been a leader in classic, which is another reason we keep pushing for an RP-PvP server for SoD.
I can not begin to express how many of our classic Grobb players are excited for SoD and joining in with the newer RP-PvPers that recently transferred in, it will be amazing to consolidate all of us on one server!
~Okwaho
Can we get an Rp-PvP server please?
hello again sir,
it’s beeper. 
just wanting to check and see rp-pvp server, when?
Can you confirm or deny there being a pvp oce server? As previously there was confirmation of pve