This is a discussion topic. It is to ask, fundamentally, if faction imbalance can be resolved by faction change. Please keep the focus on this one concept so we can gauge if server balance can be achieved. And note: It is not intended to answer the question, if it is possible, would it actually change the PVP issues.
From the posters, it seems like the Horde outnumber the Alliance on most PVP servers (if not, lets just assume that).
Force merging Horde into Alliance servers doesn’t work because there are more Horde players generally. It just shifts things around. A few servers may become balance; but now, we have created a bigger gap on those that aren’t.
Allowing Horde to change to Alliance. Let’s focus on this one as an intended solution for the remaining discussion.
Horde classes, which don’t have an equivalent Alliance class, would require a class change. This means those classes will need to re-acquire their Bis. Assume that is going to be an issue. Assume that a new class can be chosen in this situation. (Assume this for the topic discussion).
Horde guild owners would assume the responsibility of informing all their members that their faction is being switched to Alliance.
Horde guild owners are responsible for submitting a Faction change request.
Non-guild alts would also be required to have their faction changed to Alliance.
Assume that not all Faction requests will happen, Blizzard would need to choose and stop when roughly balance, per realm.
So for faction change, lets get some numbers.
Horde guilds owners, if your members are willing to change to Alliance, please post your guild, server, and number of members. This will supply numbers.
This topic is also open for general discussion related to the intended post.
Yea, i suppose they could do a 1 to 1 switch - shaman swaps to pally, but the gear situation would be a problem. it would require some work on blizzard’s part to get it right which means we’re unlikely to ever see it.
Probably the more likely scenario is that shamans and paladins cannot faction change, but other classes can (if implemented).
I guess the more likely fix for my scenario with my group of friends might be to server transfer to PvE, where queues for Horde could be shorter (if xrealm bgs are pooled based on server type).
Assuming that all PVP issues exist and would be resolved by balancing numbers of players on either faction, per server, a player-lead initiative that may be helpful, somewhat thematic for Alliance (maybe), and even community-fostering (something, I believe at least a portion of the WoW Classic community cares about), could look something like this:
Someone active on the forums, and on a server with high faction disparity becomes a Balance Movement Ambassador.
Player level is too fine. Players want to keep their guilds.
Guilds have the population and thus the focus of this topic.
It keeps Blizzard from having to make one-by-one switching.
It forces the Guild owners to take charge and not Blizzard.
And more importantly, this post was asking mostly about the feasibility of being able to achieve faction balance on realms by faction changes. I am asking Guild owners to post their willingness to have a faction change and to supply their population numbers.
Firstly, that assumes that guild leaders are reading this post. I’d be incredibly surprised if even 0.1% (not being hyperbolic) of guild leaders even regularly read the forums, nevermind this post.
There are obviously several other issues with this approach, but I won’t harp on the point.
Bump dear blizz gods address this noone plays alliance 30 min bg ques are not for anyone with a life, I will go alliance and pay to do it…this is the way
Nope. People never want faction change for themselves, they want it for other people so they will have shorter queue times. The only problem is that those folks don’t want to faction change, either.
