So, How bad is it, really?

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Well, you can choose to believe what you want of course… but Blizzard gave them a 30% XP bonus. That should tell you something.

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Lol the warchief quote was an irony btw . . .

My point wasnt that , if alliance had horde racials i can tell for sure that leader of pve and pvp will be even more awful , maybe 4 o 5 horde guilds .

Is not about faction anymore , is only about racials because even if u r filthy casual you wanna go where more people are playing , where is more people playing ? horde ; why is people playing there ? racials , following pro tips , following imbalance caused because of the other 2 reason .

I can say for sure that only 5% of the pop of wow chose a race because " i like it" ; maybe at the beginning , when u r a new player you picked the race that you like but later you “need” to swap to a better race because everyone wants to be better .

Sadly this just change to :" play what you like " to “Play a race that is gonna give you haste or attk power making you have better dps! , what are you waiting for a race change!!!”.

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Over all more play alliance it’s when you get to max level there is a shift to more higher level horde players .

I mained alliance from late bc - mid cata . Reason I changed was not because there were more people on horde side to raid with but because there were less and it was easier to get into groups compared to alliance.
My current toon is the only toon I have picked for any racial and it was for the passive pet health increase.

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What you fail to see is that this has a top down effect. The big players leave, some people leave to be near them, their friends go with them to stay together, and after a time there is enough of a drought on one side (recruitment is a huge pain like people have been saying) that it’s just easier to do everything on the side with all of the big players. It doesn’t matter if they moved for a 0.000001% difference.

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That isn’t really a source you know, right?

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And as I stated, Method made a statement saying they’d swap back to the Alliance if it wouldn’t cost them a small fortune.

The racials are fine, it’s the players that have issues.

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Their own website isn’t a source of their own opinions.

You should scroll down a bit from that post.

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Trust me, if Alliance racials were juicy enough then high end PvPers and Method would jump to Alliance no matter the cost (they did it to go Horde after all, didn’t they?) because that’s where their bread is buttered. They aren’t going to risk another team having even a slight advantage because they have sponsors and whatnot to keep happy.

It’s another point people have been making. No one is going to even things out unless they have a reason to leave the Horde and go Alliance.

The racials are still the reason though, in the case of Method and probably a lot of other higher players.

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Yeah, I mean what does Method know about their own opinons on the matter.

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Well, yes I see that Kirela posted a source later. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

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She edited that in after I’d made my second post quoting the article.

I suggest not jumping into the middle of a conversation before seeing where it’s going, especially if it’s ongoing.

EDIT: That might have come off as rude, it wasn’t meant to be.

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Actually, you and I were putting up our quotes at the same time. I just put mine in as an edit, but yours doesn’t have an actual link.

It’s all off track stuff anyway with the discussion at hand.

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Not really.

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Oh, this is a laugh. So you think the Alliance is full of twinks? With the recent drop in level exp requirements and the “only current end game matters” mentality of the game design, characters who aren’t at 120 are probably not playing. They are either alts or mains who have quit. None of them are “active players”, because the leveling journey is basically nonexistent now.

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Good for u hang in there till sylvannas becomes queen of Azeroth . :joy:

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A faction imbalance is bad for the game and will get worse as time goes on.

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:banana: :cherries: :eggplant:

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On my server group (which I believe is called Drenden/Arathor now) we are Alliance heavy and always have been. I remember when Drenden opened at the beginning of Burning Crusade and WoW Realm Pop showed the Alliance at about 20k and Horde about 10k. We were always heavily Alliance influenced.

I’ve played both sides, not so much recently, but when I hop over to the Alliance side it’s always bustling.

Crepe is on my server, maybe he’ll see this and pop in to shed some light on the Alliance pop. in our server group.

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Could you please translate? I don’t speak fruit.

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Anyone with an IQ over 60 would have know better than to put them on the PTR that way.