As blizzard have said they’re keeping the faction split, I’m still hoping/wishing they’d introduce a (lengthy) traitor quest chain that allows a player to swap faction.
If the head of the Taurens can literally hang out in Stormwind… so should any other player’s who want to.
I know Blizzard feel they made a mistake with the Pandaren but people still recognize which of those is the enemy is in a BG. They’ve also created a situation where a lot of the popular races are on one side rather than the other. Blood elves for example and now Vulpera. (While if you do high mythics you’re at a disadvantage if you’re not playing a NE in some encounters… it goes both ways)
I completely agree with the OP. I’ve been hoping for a way to “defect” to either faction with various races I like. Bliz could keep the factions in place while giving players choice without forcing a race into a faction.
That’s like saying all French people have to be Democrats. Or all Canadians have to be conservative. Makes no sense.
Please bliz. Give us a quest chain to allow a character to switch sides permanently.
It could definitely come with penalties - e.g. you lose all faction rep as they hate you now and the new ones don’t trust your traitorous behind… ^^
But to those who see - x races = horde y races = alliance. I get that. I just think player agency and choice is very important. More than an arbitrary sense of ‘you are automatically on team blue and you are team red’.
It would keep the faction divide but also allow you to play with friends. The only real thing I can see it stopping is blizzard making quite as much money from faction changes in their store…
I referring to the fact that all undead have to be horde. All humans have to be alliance etc. In every race there are those that don’t share the same ideas. People are individuals. Bliz should let us play those individuals and let us change factions but keep our races.
I wouldn’t be opposed to the idea, but different races should be easier/harder to change factions on depending on their relations with the opposite faction. So for example it might be relatively easy for a tauren to defect to the Alliance, but an orc or forsaken would have a pretty steep hill to climb. It’s not unlike how originally some of the Horde’s races started at neutral with the rest of the Horde.
The only “traitor” mode I want is a quest line that completely changes your alignment from horde to alliance or vice verse. It should be somewhat in-depth, a t should be dangerous and it should have a tuner so you can’t just wishy washy back and forth. And of course because activision is in charge a store token.
I agree with this. There should be consequences. All new horde or alliance race factions should be negative value. A steep hill to climb to become accepted by your new faction.
But in all your examples there have been exceptions you have to admit. Why can’t bliz allow the players to play those exceptions to the rule.
The amount of players that would actually change over to a new faction would add flavour but clearly not overwhelm the faction itself.
And as for alliance having high elves, no we don’t. But I’m not going to get into that discussion here. There’s a whole topic already on it that explains the blood elf/high elf discussion in great depth.
