wow The State of Alliance Guilds by Top GMs and Why It's Time for Cross-Faction Grouping

[Arcling 898]

2 hours ago, Grumar said:

there is no possible way to measure faction activity in RP and the like, horde may have more level capped characters but as of 2020 jan, the total player faction balance is 49.4% horde 50.6% alliance. what you're saying is you want to sacrifice that for end game, making the real balance then just become 60/40 or worse

I've said nothing about sacrificing anything, I am in favor of merge. I think you misunderstood my response to a poster, who speculated that giving Alliance unfair advantage in racials might be the solution (my response was that it would only reverse current imbalance, I was against this solution). I take it you are not actively playing then, even casual content? There are way less players on the Alliance side and it shows everywhere. As I said - check LFG. Or do you think community (and even devs acknowledged that this imbalance exists) just made up this problem, and it doesn't exist outside top mythic raiding? What you are saying makes no sense. So these Alliance players deliberately stay low level and never cap? What? Also just number statistics across every level usually don't account for alts, inactive accounts etc. As it stands now, Alliance has less players and it keeps losing them as more people are moving over. This is a fact. People just go where there are more players, snowball effect, as simple as that.

Edited September 13, 2021 by Arcling

[durdyenglish 298]

Horde and Alliance work together throughout the narrative. Some NPC characters even forgo these factions all together; we see orc and human pirates fighting side by side all time, for example. Not every character in lore subscribes to faction war, in fact it seems to increasingly be a minority perspective with most major characters advocating for peace, if not all out cooperation.

As characters in the lore, however "nameless" we end up being in the end, we have a right to that agency. We should be able to personally put aside old grudges and hatred to do something great or even everyday. 

We should also be allowed to continue to fight. Players could opt into faction conflict by going into War Mode, which would enable World PVP and disable cross-faction PVE.

Battlegrounds could be redone for non-PVP players by simply pitting two equally numbered sides against each other in "training exercises." Arenas should be re-contextualized for everyone as nonlethal spectator sport and even allow players to sit in the stands and watch random arena battles populate live in front of them.

So many ways to maintain the spirit of the original game and provide logical progression for the faction narrative.

[Arcling 898]

6 hours ago, durdyenglish said:

Battlegrounds could be redone for non-PVP players by simply pitting two equally numbered sides against each other in "training exercises." Arenas should be re-contextualized for everyone as nonlethal spectator sport and even allow players to sit in the stands and watch random arena battles populate live in front of them.

So many ways to maintain the spirit of the original game and provide logical progression for the faction narrative.

No need to really change that much, battlegrounds and arenas already exist sort of out of lore, it's like returning to old dungeons. I think arenas were always some sort of sport, so canonically none of our heroes die there. Plus there is merc mode and ability to fight your own faction there. For world pvp it could be some "hidden" groups, once you turn wm on, half of your shard gets hostile (unless that someone is in your party), other half is friendly. Players entering said shard are assigned to one of two hidden groups in attempt to make numbers even (or at least to attempt to), so whichever faction/race is more popular, doesn't matter here.

[durdyenglish 298]

55 minutes ago, Arcling said:

battlegrounds and arenas already exist sort of out of lore

Right that makes sense, like every Warsong Gulch is just some alternate version of the original Warsong Gulch. Always have to remember that what you're doing and where you're doing it also involves when.