hello i missed the alliance conversation but i need true hordies to realize that a good chunk of horde players are alliance players that were forced to faction change for mythic progression.
like idr if anyone remembers what it was like trying to pug as alliance but god damn i went from horde to alliance in BFA and it was a ghost town over there. now you can actually FIND CONTENT on alliance due to xfaction, and anyone who’s against it needs to realize that if we got rid of xfaction, we’d just all play horde again. this is a single faction game: it’s either xfaction or Everyone Serious About The Game Plays Horde.
Thing is, don’t hold it against the True Believers. There was a huge chunk of WoW’s lifespan where Blizzard not only encouraged the faction rivalry but actively pushed people into the Horde.
Horde got Blood Elves despite the fact in WarCraft 3 they were Alliance in The Frozen Throne.
Horde had the more engaging zone narratives in Wrath of the Lich King and Cataclysm. Seriously, compare Stonetalon (And yes, I know that’s now officially deemed a “miscommunication” which I feel is nonsense but whatever) to Westfall, or even Redridge. Redridge was fun, but it’s still a gigantic Rambo reference. Horde got the actual storylines. Alliance got Memes.
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Warlords of Draenor was basically a Horde-based expansion. We got some Draenei lore, but Yrel ended up getting shunted off to the side after a zone and now its just accepted she’s gone full villain (Despite the fact we have zero evidence of that).
Legion started course correcting with a lot of Alliance characters being front and center, but again I go back to BfA and the difference between Kul Tiras and Zandalar. Whenever we get faction related content, historically speaking the Horde gets the functional game while the Alliance ends up down a major settlement and meme content.
Such a missed opportunity too. They could have had the questline be Alliance disguised coming and doing their thing. People like Vol’jin know what’s up but the majority of the Horde doesn’t. Maybe a Garrosh spy could have discovered Alliance infiltration and went to tell Garrosh that Vol’jin was an Alliance traitor. Perhaps could have even got the message out to rebels who start to kind of doubt Vol’jin a bit. Then you have this whole “some rebels actually defect back to Garrosh, they don’t want to work with Alliance. Clearly Vol’jin tricked them, Garrosh was right” as well as “I don’t like it, but Garrosh is worse” type stuff going on. It would have drastically improved the Alliance story if they did proper actions to set up for their own part of the siege.
And I’m saying part of that also had nothing to do with lore. By forcing a faction divide, you’re effectively cutting PVE/rPVP playerbases in half. Eventually, people are going to start flocking to servers and factions that have a reputation for progression in the high-level content they wish to do.
The shift to one faction was inevitable. The top raiders are on Horde, so the people who want to be top raiders followed, and that was effectively the death of the Alliance. What forced xfaction was realizing in Shadowlands that no serious raider plays Alliance. Horde guilds were transferring to fill the Alliance hall of fame well after the Horde HoF was complete. It forced Blizzard’s hand. The two-faction system was never going to work, no matter how many bonus incentives you added to Alliance players, because it doesn’t matter if u can get extra normal raid gear from doing world pvp when you can’t find a mythic raid team on Alliance.
Xfaction effectively means Alliance players can now play the game as the characters they like to play, and I think that means it’s been nothing but a win.
I’ve not seen any directed at Vulpera, but I have seen it directed at Trolls and High Elves. The former was purely in-character, because of a traumatic backstory of someone’s character. The later is something also in-character, that I had a running in with once, and only once. And due to some circumstances, did bring about some character progression to shift from blue eyes to gold.
It sounds like you had a bad running in with people during public RP. Not everyone around the Valley of Honor is a as distasteful. My character, for instance, is associated with two vulpera. No problem with them being what they are. If anyone ever is playing the racism card that usually leads to RPing between both parties shutting down. It’s counter productive.
My recommendation is keep getting out there and trying to find RP. Lean away from the spots you had bad interaction. Sitting under that giant tree in the Valley of Honor, between the inn and bank, is a great spot! People there are always nice with walk-ups welcomed.
Hah, this is so true! Back in my DAoC days, nobody played the rock trolls because “eww, trolls” but I rolled up on opening day a lady rock troll Thane named Wanda Kutachunqueoph who was famous for years and people would greet me logging in with “Boobs!!”, especially because the lady trolls have Enormous Boulders!