Shadowlands: A Look at Cross-Faction Instances

[Ilidaria-anetheron (Ilidaria)]

Makes no sense whasoever.

[Ilidaria-anetheron (Ilidaria)]

Factions are core to the game, & removing would change it for the worst due to the main conflict that’s World of WARcraft. If there are no factions, then where’s the WAR coming from?

[Seoras-moon-guard]

That’s not true. Queue times for healers will be reduced from 2 seconds to 0.9 seconds, and tanks should see their queue times reduced as well, from approximately 10 seconds to less than 5.

[Karnifex-area-52]

Probably the last several world ending threats that we all faced together.

The Legion the first time. (In Warcraft 3)
Lich King.
Deathwing.
Garrosh Hellscream.
Everything on alternate Draenor.
Gul’dan.
The Legion. (And all that expansion’s content)
Every old god. (C’thun, Yogg-Saron, N’Zoth)
The Jailer.

I’m sure there are more. There has been plenty of war outside of the factions. People just choose to ignore it because it doesn’t fit their argument.

[Stabs-moknathal]

Well this is useless. I figured we could just use LFG tool with mythics and LFD/LFR with dungeons/heroics/LFR.

I mean for years we have been stuck in groups using the above tools with players that speach different languages. Why not just make it cross faction even if they don’t want us to communicate with one another?

Have not seen a single thing about 9.2.5 that looks useful. I also dread Season 4 M+ dungeons. Probably take a long break from wow when that lands.

[Karnifex-area-52]

The lore already supports this. Just Google it. Just before Shadowlands an armistice was established.

[Drezkian-moon-guard]

Lore doesnt and shouldn’t equal gameplay. They dont need to justify it in the lore.

[Silverleigh-drakthul]

Blizzard isn’t going to bother wasting resources on that, when the type of person who wanted this and will do it, doesn’t care about lore, only getting to do whatever they want, regardless of the damage.

[Archspire-scarlet-crusade]

@Ilidaria-anetheron

If there are no factions, then where’s the WAR coming from?

From whatever bland boring baddie cosmic threat du jour Blizzard comes up with next.

The factions are always teamed up anyways, how is this any different?

[Ilidaria-anetheron (Ilidaria)]

The main conflict was war between the factions. That war was always Orcs v Humans, just saying.

Now, it’s Orcs & friends v Humans & friends.

[Hellasha-alleria (Hellasha)]

@Celistina-muradin

if it really doesn’t because you can’t queue into them with the dungeon finder?

You could form a group then travel to and walk through the dungeon portal.

@Nui-ursin

I am almost positive in the case of Dazar’alor it has to do with the part where you swap to the opposite faction for narrative purposes.

Or it would make no sense for members of the horde joining the members of the alliance in attacking and killing their own. Especially since the members of the horde are in Dazar’alor trying to win the favor of the Zandalari.

[Felheim-alexstrasza]

hmm. pushing cross faction, i like for the increased options to fill groups and play with friends that may prefer one faction and not like the other. however, i feel like with all this push, in the right direction, that not making guilds cross faction --especially since they can be somewhat cross realm already, is a bit of a miss-step. – beings that you need to have real I.D. or a cross faction community – what better way to have a cross faction community, than a cross faction guild. would also breath a bit of life back into guilds potentially. lets be honest, most guilds that arent the BIG guilds on a server, are suffering, and this could help to push people into more active guilds, and get community and conversation back into the game a bit.

[Evilbadguy-malganis (Evilbadguy)]

What’s the point of this without cross faction guilds, seems silly not to include them since it has already been done on the PTR along with cross faction LFD queueing due to a bug etc…so they know it’s possible and something we want.

[Nui-ursin]

From a lore perspective, yeah, but cross-faction gameplay is for gameplay purposes not lore.

[Lucish-moon-guard]

So cross faction but not cross faction got it.

[Akarsi-stormrage]

Highly disappointed that Cross-Faction only pertains to custom made groups. I was really looking forward to chilling in some queue’d dungeons with all my horde homies. Now it’s a feature I’ll never use.

[Unian-sentinels]

Ok so, what about warfronts? XD

[Rhane-shadowsong]

Glad the beta test is starting finally. Looking forward to when you guys finish it and make cross faction guilds and remove the rest of these restrictions. Basically useless till then but it makes sense to roll it out slow and make sure nothing breaks.

[Foxmulder-the-venture-co]

It would def help lower queue times on the alliance side

[Thanen-the-scryers (Thanen)]

i can just p2w any time i want to spend real money and care carried in any content i want.

i wonder how much the horde is going to charge the alliance for carries in all of wow end game content.