It was mentioned above that perhaps the buff they are adding to the pvp stuff in Ashenvale will be assigned based on faction balance. The smaller faction might get a bigger buff. In that case, there is incentive to entropically become 50/50. It’s really a genius idea. Uses the desire for advantage to create a 50/50 balance over time.
Yes and no, they can change totems to auras. Kind of like glyph of totem of wrath. a 5min buff to all raid members everytime the totem is dropped or killed or somecrap
instead of the totem giving the aura, the shaman could basically
Even if they do add something like this the faction balance is still skewed.
This could work if it was a durational buff but something like that would have to be implemented in order to have even a semblance of balance. Also D Sac would have to addressed.
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I disagree with this … SoD (at least to start) is PvP focused end game. Horde are closer to the PvP zone and have far better PvP racials.
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They could tie Dsac to stoneclaw totem as a rune
Could just be a rune
I would ASSUME we get neck and ring slot runes eventually
One slight caveat is that shaman are better buffers the smaller the group. So for 10 man you would only need 2(3 if you want to give melee ghetto salv though it’s very dangerous) to buff the raid while ally need 3 to 4 pallies to buff a 10 man.
Edit: sorry ally hunters you’re going to be kings bots in BFD.
You don’t think a 30% damage reduction for the entire group is an advantage in PvP? Alliance guilds are currently building pvp groups around this very rune.
Not really. Alliance level in Darkshore and its just as close as the Barrens. I will concede the most popular capital city is more convenient for the Horde.
Truth.
This is a well thought out point. In a 10 man at level 25 though, a single paladin can have horn which is a better might and still give out another buff.
I haven’t even brought up the fact that a paladin can also be a tremor totem lol.
I believe they stated there will be 9 slots for runes. So no neck ring or weapon. I can’t find the source for this though so take it with a grain of salt 
As of right now there is nothing datamined to show jewelry or weapon runes. Doesnt mean it wont happen…
I could see a neck eventually thats a universal “pick any rune not already used” something like that… but who knows.
I could see it as a reward for raiding 60 content
This is fantastic. Love this team.
He mentioned a caveat to this, that this would only be occurring on PvP realms. So you don’t have to worry about faction limitations on PvE realms.
my mum does not play wow so that shows the credibility to your post.
Touche. I withdraw the claim.
I just want to play paladin. If I could be a horde paladin, I would.
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90% Alliance! This is glorious, my axe will rain down with blood till Odin comes calling for Valhalla! Not having to look for my next battle excites me very much. Let the river of blood fill the red lake!
Horde for life. See you in Ashenvale.
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Taken straight from Blizzards site… the link to the full article is below…
Another topic that comes up each time we talk about realms is faction balance on PvP realms. We’ve received a lot of feedback on this since 2019. We hear you, and with Season of Discovery, we’re going to try something new: this Season’s PvP realms have been designed to maintain faction balance as they grow. Yes, this is actually happening!
However, there is a potential cost to this faction balance that we want to make sure you’re aware of: if one faction is significantly more dominant on a PvP realm, there is a very real likelihood that faction selection may be temporarily limited on that realm. That said, our overarching goal for Season of Discovery is for it to be a fun and smooth experience, and we are prepared to change course if necessary. Your requests for faction balance have been heard loud and clear. This is a new direction for us, and one that we’re excited to try.
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2h enh support is what will fix this, verbatim, horde players are a bunch of monsters races being forced to use puny dw weapons, everyone is gonna eanna play paladins cause they can use the big weapon on the big dragon amd get big critss
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add blood elves n paladin thatll get ppl to stay lol
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They are literally forcing server balance by blocking character creation on servers.
i love shammy healing. SO, I am horde.