Why even go alliance? Give three actual good reason why anyone should go alliance over horde now?
Everyone knows horde racials are stronger, why do you think way more people play horde. Adding this change makes going alliance pointless, horde get everything from alliance since classic but better too, why promote more people going horde? You honestly don’t fix 99% horde win rate AVs in Classic but you fix this for the horde? I didn’t think much horde bias until now. Horde have it so easy.
Revert this change and don’t defecate on the faces of alliance players please.
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Reason #1 - Gnomes are cute!
Reason #2 - Undead are ugly!
Reason #3 - Horde smell like feet!
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But when people find out they’re at a huge disadvantage in a game or made a huge mistake upon character creation sometimes it can really sour the experience. This is what’s souring many alliance players and why alliance players did not want this, it sours the experience and makes going alliance feel like a mistake… because at this point it was a mistake.
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stop posting change is good and will stay youre wasting your breath were over it move on
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If you didn’t need these 3 “actual good reasons” to go alliance before; you should not need them now. For an alliance player, nothing has changed except you now get bonus loot for winning matches. That looks like a positive to me, not a negative.
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Now everyone can just play horde. It is what blizzard intended all along. Think of how much money they will make on boost sales alone.
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I am hoping for faction changes, good cash grab for Blizzard.
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People will play alliance because their friends do or they like how they look, that’s pretty much it. PVE wise alliance are fine.
The change is not getting reverted at this point. They already did two tests. Blizzard wanted to put it in from the second they thought it up and after the first test they put out a bunch of stats that made it look good, then they did another “test” to refine it.
I haven’t figured out yet why people ever had a problem with the queues (I waited in them and had zero problems with them) or why they want a “solution” that makes TBC feel completely unauthentic but it is what it is. Blizzard for whatever reason decided to put out a fix that was never needed in the first place without trying things that could have actually helped like horde to alliance transfers.
No it won’t help the alliance and it won’t help the server balance at all and yes some PVP minded allies will absolutely reroll horde, alts or otherwise.
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Blizzard complete killed the alliance again at this point it’s better to move on and stop supporting them. They made it clear that alliance will not receive any positive changes best move over to ff14.
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Horde racials are stronger? So why is it out of the top 10 teams 6 of the teams are alliance? Must not make a difference eh?
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If your whole purpose of going alliance was to have fast queue times then that in itself is the reason why there is a need for this as its unbalanced. You basically demonstrated the need for this. Also, to actually answer your question, and if youre a pvp player, then you should be happy that alliance have overall better racials than horde in pvp. So, even if queue times would be balanced, there would still be a reason to go alliance.
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I went alliance mid way through p1 to see the other side in all my years of playing wow I’ve never really played alliance.
Pvp has no interest for me I’m burnt out from the rank climb in classic. Enjoy the h vs h I would imagine that’s what most games will probably be.
I think what is really concerning here is the fact that they added same faction battlegrounds so the Horde will stop whining. They put a limit on premades in the battlegrounds because the Horde were whining about Alliance teaming up as a premade and making them lose in an hour que. As far as I know, the alliance don’t even get the care packages for winning PvP since it’s gone live.
Each change is catering to the Horde with none benefiting the Alliance. They also removed /spit because Blizzard doesn’t want people to hurt their cash cows’ feelings. It’s all about money and it’s really sad. Most realms are Horde dominant now. If Blizzard has done this, then Blizzard should add updated Alliance racials to even out the gameplay.
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I think you’re misunderstanding the limits on premades.
That’s paired with horde v horde BGs. Why? Because that first test, literally every match was against a horde premade.
Horde will run way more premades than alliance would if we have faster queues.
So unless you want to just get run over by horde premades 24/7, then you need limits on premades if we’re going to get horde v horde BGs.
That’s why premade limits were enabled during the 2nd test window.
Worst argument ever! The majority of players are NOT the top 10 teams. They do not even remotely play at that same level. At the level these top 10 teams play, racials are no longer a factor because the teams have practiced for month on ways to counter them. But for the rest of the players who have not spent months working on counters and team work, racial can play a big role.
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You should try playing both factions. It’s a lot of fun. You get the best of both worlds.
The whole point of the question is why would they want to. OP is asking about the incentives, but thank you for your useless contribution…
Thank you for agreeing with me.