And I pointed out that the racials themselves were already changed in game (tho not exactly in the way you mentioned) and things actually got more out of balance since then.
which won’t work because then you removed any incentive for players to switch back. they will just stay where they are. the only way players will swap back to alliance is if blizzard lures them in with better benefits.
My suggestion was quite a bit different than “nerf a couple racials” they’ve been doing that since the game came out and people have been hearding back and forth ever since. Either turn them off or make them only fun things like bank access, rocket jump, etc.
No experience myself, let me just state that up front. But from the people on both sides I have talked to, at the Incursions the Horde are getting rolled. But everywhere else it is still Horde ruling. The Alliance turn on WM, collect their bounty, their 30% bonus for the Incursion, then turn it off.
i love seeing the people who never join truemode show up and just get destroyed, you want that 30% you are going to have to work for it. the campfire on your body means i am just keeping you warm. If it means more victims, bring it, get out of peacemode.
As someone pointed out above, simply turning them off is not an incentive for people to switch back. If anything, it is a reason to stay. It has a net zero impact for both sides, therefore playing horde would still vastly outweight playing ally.
Only way it starts to shift back is some kind of incentive program for people to play ally INSTEAD of horde, not just to play ally at all.
Oh, that is great. Lady, the bonus system may be broken, but on the list of “things killing BfA”, this is so far down there that it shouldn’t even rate a mention.
The bonuses should have never been included. But, had they not been, there wouldn’t be a War Mode. Ever PvP server wound up self segregating to one faction or the other. World PvP was already basically dead. Even without bonuses, War Mode being so easy to turn off and on would lead to the exact same thing only much faster. The whole purpose of the bonuses was to bribe more people into the mode. If the base bribe wasn’t enough, of course they’ll increase it.
Is it a big problem and a major design flaw? Absolutely. But Blizzard doesn’t care. The purpose of War Mode is to save world PvP, a game mode that is not appealing and has never had a stable player base. Not to be fair.
PvP requires other players to serve as content. If you reduced it to just those who actually want the Mode, there would not be enough players for it to survive. Blizzard knows this, so they are desperate to pull more players in.
The solution is to not have the devs mock one faction constantly for a decade. To not have the devs admit that they write one faction first and treat the other like an afterthought. To not have the devs give one side objectively better racials in every situation for years. Etcetera.
Blizzard is only just now barely starting to see the faction balance problem they’ve been warned about for years. You admit you only noticed it yourself when you saw the buff go to the Alliance. Well, it’s a real problem, but it’s going to take a lot more than this to fix it.
because most horde players play the assaults solo, while it looks like alliance play in raids or at least multiple 5 man parties. on the occasion we group up, we have held 30 alliance in their main port in voldun with 5 of us for almost an hour the other day.
it is 100% a pve bonus for 30% more AP for turning on warmode. anyone who says otherwise is wrong. there is no pvp advantage to turning warmode on except it is fun.
Thats all good and fine but the core to my question isnt really getting an answer by anyone and im trying to figure it out
If the alliance can now stand their ground and form groups that compete with horde groups now that the rewards are 30%, what was stopping them when it was equal at 10%? It seems that maybe they always had the ability to form these groups but refused to do so until they were at an advantage.
You would have to put something in at the same time that made the Alliance faction somewhat OP to cause a reverse shift. Without that, the pros and cons are even and no one will move.
I know the horde’s been better since the game started, the difference is Blizzard never openly just gave the horde unfair advantages. People CHOSE the horde because it was cooler.