Seeing as how you have completely dropped the ball when it comes to faction balance, something you could have easily fixed by blocking people from making characters on one side when they are already over populated, how about you turn on Warmode for TBC? Seriously how hard would it have been to place limits on the overpopulated faction while still letting people join the realm? why is it that you continue to do nothing but offer BS character transfers? How about blending 2 realms that have opposite over population problems? 4k alliance to 12k horde makes doing anything in the world as the under populated faction harder than it should be. My realm used to be a 46/54 split prior to TBC. then when TBC hit Blizzard let about 8k people join the realm ALL choosing Horde, thereby destroying the faction balance we had before TBC.
At this point war mode is needed
I’ve brought this up before, but with layering, could have algorithms that ensure the population balance in your layer is reasonable for the minority faction, something like 50:50 ±10%. The majority faction would still have times where there is no enemies around, but the minority faction wouldn’t be waffle stomped. Sure people could transfer in and out of layer with grouping, but with log in/phase in algorithms, could still keep it balanced within reason.
This at least would give the minority faction somewhat equal footing from a PVP stand point, reduce incentive for leaving unbalanced servers, and keep server identity intact. Probably too late for this change now though.
what is warmode?
You can only pvp when turned on
Soooo…it’s like flagging yourself for PvP on a PvE server….
I am good.
Just as long as you can’t turn it off.
Must be turned on to qualify for Arenas.
Turns off in major Cities.
Just thought merge all Horde with all Alliance Servers.
nothing more than that.
Nah, roll PvE
I want to say pretty easy. However, I don’t know what the back end for them is. Locking a realm? easily done, but I’m not sure if that tech extends to faction locking.
Either way it is moot since it would cut into profits for blizzard to do something like that and say it is a player issue that we need to solve.
Because money.
Nope, that will actively go against money. It won’t happen.
Yep roll PvE. If you want warmode. That is what it is. You have the option to be PvP Flagged or Not.
Ah, great times when Thunderfury was the same… to bad it is dead now… Alliance side anyway.
Seems kind of antithetical in regards to a PvP server (I guess having 99/1 faction split is too though lol)…but at this point, whatever fixes faction balance I’m open to.
It won’t fix faction balance it would just turn every realm into a pve realm.
Yeah I mean I don’t know how effective it would be…but like I said, at the this point anything that can possibly fix faction imbalance I’ll at least hear it out.
I said this six months ago. Honestly I think it is too late for any of it.
Or how about removing Normal servers, and just make all of them PVP? 
Nope
10char
Retail has what you are looking for.
Sounds like Retail is more your speed.
From my perspective, warmode for PvP servers is a terrible idea.
Yes, it ruined my Retail server Emerald Dream. 
warmode just for pve servers would make more sense… and when wm is on, you connect to the pvp servers’ phases, shards, etc.
but yeah, i agree- they need to corral the servers by limiting new creations and xfer ons when a faction reaches 60-65% and reopen when they hit 55-60%.
also, merge the one sided servers with opposites.