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Adding High elves to the alliance would change nothing.
The Horde already has playable high elves, and the Horde has most of the player population.
If you made them playable on both sides, None of the players on the horde would change over, since they already have playable high elves and most of the population.
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Depends a bit, but youâre right, in the end.
Helves could be given racials that would make raiders and pvpâerâs drool. They could be given class options that belves just donât work with (seen shaman and druid tossed around a fair bit). They could be given some customization options that belf players could kill for. Full beards, as an example.
But, even assuming all of that was put into the helves, theyâd still be locked behind a rep wall and who knows what other requirements to unlock.
Rumor has it, that in the next expansion, Allied Races will be part of their parent racesâ character customization (except Nightborne), which means Blood Elves will get Void Elf customization options, and vice versaâŚsooooâŚsafe to say that the High Elf fantasy will be complete!
Getting back to the orginal question, OP; the answer is NO. People learning how to play their toons/know their roles (in both PVP and PVE) and becoming better students of the game (there is a lot to know) will fix the imbalance.
I realize that I am ruffling some feathers here, but after playing Alliance for the better part of 10 years, there is a serious lack of fundamental playâŚand a new race ainât going to solve it.
Our problem is cultural. Alliance culture, that is. Imma unpack what this means for you all right now:
Back in BFA, I might have agreed with you when BEs were so meta in both PVE and PVP (and orcs too), but now I have to say that the typical Alliance playerâs mentality when it comes to do something serious (such as higher-level raiding and PVP) are severely lacking: for the first time that I can ever remember, we now have the lionâs share of good racials. And people still donât know how to use them.
Or que in a BG at least somewhat geared; NOT having just popped 120 and hoping to score some âquickâ gear (and getting carried by your team to do it) while still rocking whites/heirlooms.
Or bother to learn a raid boss fight before the raid.
Or protect and peel for their healers.
Or complete (both PVE and PVP objectives on time and as needed).
AND fail to do the little things that it takes to get things doneâin both PVP and PVE.
Instead, we got a hippy, âfloatyâ mentality (for the most part) to doing anything that comes remotely to doing anything that takes focus, teamwork, and a little bit of persistence.
Case in point, many Alliance players will fight tooth-and-nail to get a base/flagâŚand once the team fight is wonâŚwill immediately (if not sooner) abandon it.
Or worse, leave the healer (often the only person in the BG with an ounce of experience and sense) to âguardâ it.
Talk about cats and colored stringâŚ
In contrast Horde players (generally) think about how to accomplish whatever goals they may have (such as how to best kill you in WPVP, how to prep BEFORE a raid starts, and/or how to win 80% of the time in BGs and arenas).
See the difference?
One side is always the inevitable failures, and the other enjoys the fruits of their success. When either faction acts in such a way it becomes faction culture.
So, no OP, getting another race will not solve the Alliance imbalance problem; only we can. There is no reason to not have an imbalance at all; Blizz has given us all the tools that we need, but we need to be more proactive in our approach as to how we play the game.
Pro tip for the TD;LR impared: quit chasing unicorns for your mounts so much. Help out your faction and LEARN something useful, even if it is only how to be a better player.
Only THEN will the faction imbalance change.
Clearly said rumor is a crock because, as Iâve stated in another thread, merging races would be a mechanical impossibility and not financially feasible.
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Only thing that will work is to end the Faction divide. Nothing will bring life back to the Alliance, besides removing it and the Horde.
No.
Horde has an image of being the grunge bad boys. If you can look great and also be a grunge tough guy at the same time itâs a win win.
Alliance wonât be able to pick them off, unless perhaps blue eyed while horde only has green. I like void elves better anyway.
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This just opens up the opputunity for imbalance in the opposite direction, even if it takes years to occur.
The way I see it, since there is already one group of playable high elves, it would be better to just lessen the strictness of the faction divide. Let people party up and make guilds with whatever races they want instead of being forbidden from playing with certainly players because of their race choice.
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Probably, butâs it too late now. Itâs done. We know what faction Blizzard develops content for. The entire Suramar patch, city, race, goes to Horde. All 3 Orc Clans, Horde. Zandalari Trolls, a longstanding adversary over a decade, Horde. Adjustable back postures? Horde.
Ogres with Human Skins? Alliance. Void Elves? Alliance. 1 Dwarf Clan? Alliance. Lighter colored Draenei? Alliance.
Notice a pattern?
You donât instantly become a worse player when you roll Alliance.
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Yes! 36% of NA 120 horde are sindorei. 2nd place is 14% orc. The Alliance of Lordaeron protected the high elves for centuries against the amani trolls!
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a weak neutral pandaren speaking of traitors lol
coming from a gilnean who refused to join the Alliance until they were dying from the forsaken!
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Really? Cool letâs flip it around.
We know what faction Blzizard develops content for.
The entire 8.0 BFA patch? Horde gets their city done last, and is so badly designed you have to pay a flight master to find the pvp chest. Clearly alliance based.
Bee mount? Alliance.
Kul tirans? Brand new model where as Horde just get a night elf mutant (zandalari).
Dark iron dwarves with fiery friggin beards whom we had a long standing rivalry with on the alliance.
Best racials in the game for both raiding and M+
Night elf model mutant? horde.
Butchered night elf model mutant? horde
Brown skin orc? Horde
Tauren with new horns? horde.
See the pattern?
You do have a bad mentality though.
no?
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How is a Bee Mount good? May as well give Alliance a Care Bear as a mount. Wheres a Pirate Parrot or a Wicker Mount or something other than another Horse?
And if I recall they donât even have the Bee Mount yet.
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No, and it has nothing to do with FOR THE HORDE!. By now most people are established with friends and guilds on the Horde side. The Alliance is outnumbered almost everywhere. Itâd take some mighty big convincing, or said friends/guildies switching over to play the race for them to make the leap too. I mean, I just came back after a decade of being out and it sucks not having my friends around anymore. Game is still kinda fun but itâs always better with friends. Thankfully one of them is still around and she never kicked me out of the guild. When youâre gone for a decade and log in for the first time and still see the guild tag is active you end up being amazed. Shocked too.
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I mean, weâll probably head that way eventually. WoW is an old game, and the faction divide is not healthy. Weâre seeing the effects ramping up now.
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I could see this reducing the Blood Elf numbers down to a level where that isnât all you see on Horde anymore, at the very least.
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