Take Herod for example. Currently during prime-time there’s on average a 10:1 H:A ratio online. Make it, say, 4:1. That’s 4 Horde for very Alliance. That means instead of 1000 horde saturating every zone, flightpath and instance portal, you now have 400 to spread around. This would be night and day for Alliance players on that server.
Still imbalanced? Of course. Is it literally 2 times more balanced than it was previously? Yep. Would it be way more playable versus right now? Also, yep.
Exactly. On Herod you could take the ENTIRE POPULATION of Alliance players in Ironforge. Put them in BRM, and the Horde would have enough players in Searing Gorge and Burning Steppes to utterly destroy them.
Meanwhile, the Alliance wouldn’t have enough people left over to do anything other than hold those two doors for as long as possible.
This “Oh, sometimes the Horde also die, therefore faction imbalance is not serious” is just nonsense.
Find groups because there are 3 hour queues during prime-time and literally 90% of the people online are on the opposite faction.
The above, let alone raids.
Farm, because for every 1 Alliance online in any zone, there are 10 Horde also looking for the same stuff.
PVP because after an hour of finding players who want to PVP you have a 40 man raid that gets stomped in every zone because there’s already 2-3 raids worth of Horde also in that zone.
The game is indeed more or less unplayable.
So tell me, if you can’t really PVP, can’t find necessary players to PVE, can’t farm.
Always an excuse because someone died in pvp, no one forced you to roll alliance and forcing q times on horde players or making them server transfer to play the game is a childish view point, I.e. it’s not fair for me so they should be punished. On Rattlegore I frequently get steamrolled by raids of 20-30 alli gank squads and I’m not crying about it, I knew what I signed up for when I picked a pvp server.
Other realms. You are a player, your toon is a character. Just because one character is 100x more difficult to play, doesn’t mean you, the player, can’t play another toon. If you’re unwilling to play another character, then you might have a bad time unless you go level up fishing, cooking, or other professions.
Or, stick with me here because I know this is going to be difficult for you.
Or. Blizzard can implement simple changes to make the server where thousands of players have already invested tons of their time to play on, more balanced.
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This horsecrap argument that “oh you can’t do anything, go roll another character so an over advantaged faction doesn’t have to lose that advantage” is just insane.
