Sad news. One of the biggest reasons I stopped playing WoW was being tired of the fraction I play being shit on, left out, and shunned by players and devs alike. Its like, why bother? Just make one fraction since 9 in 10 want to be horde anyway.
I was actually hoping that new big feature would have been either cross fraction play, or racials disabled in instances. Something like Rift does. (And off topic, Im, happier playing Gaurd in Rift even though most people are Defiant, simply because I can be in an active guild and still be the race I want. Same with pvp too.)
As an officer in 10/13H that made the jump from Alliance to Horde the racials weren't the deciding factor. First off we were on US-Stormrage which is a very overpopulated server and with summer work schedules it made our required 3 hour 3 day schedule turn into 7-8 hours if someone couldn't get off work on time and get in queue for the hour wait. So we chose another server and swapping to Horde is a no brainer for recruits, while we may not be the most attractive guild to some people there were plenty that only turned us down because of Alliance. The DPS increase was just icing on the cake.
What I cannot understand is the fact that blizzard through their own words are well aware of the issue of faction inbalance and yet there is still this ongoing issue.
I mean I play alliance and yes for pvp our racials are great EMFH, but that is one race out of the entire faction
pve wise horde have blood elves, troll, orc hell even goblin racials are very cool.
I think blizzard will make changes if during the 5.4 SOO raid the top progess is all horde side.
I mean if they see 1-2 alliance guilds and 10-15 horde guilds, hopefully that will wake them up.
Most low pop servers are dying when it comes to raiding guilds and has nothing to do with what faction you are. Racials are only part of why people go horde.... more selection of quality raiders have gone horde it seems. So it makes recruiting much easier. Also even if blizzard decides to make racials all cosmetic. Alliance loses out still anyway because there would be no reason to waste $$ and faction change back when everyone you need is horde already.
So its a lose/lose for the OP so this topic is null and void imo.
I think ScrubBusters is a good example of an Alliance guild that proves that endgame raiding is more than possible on Alliance racials.
Sanitas on EU-Grim Batol (i believe) alliance guild, who was mainly people from the guild, Sluga typer och en Naga on frostwhisper, and they just moved back. As far as i know, they didnt like alliance or the server
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Blizzard hate Alliance. Alliance has the worse PvE racials. Got a mechanical cat quest as an introduction to 4.3. Have to pay 10G to go do the 4.3 weekly.
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As a guild that tries to optimize everything horde racials obviously do come out a bit on top. However faction changing our entire main plus alt roster, along with a realm change (along with a lot of social ex raiders being in the guild) because The Maelstrom horde is quite dead is quite costly.
Perhaps it's inevitable for the future though if nothing changes.
Yeah, just one part. Still sucky-lame though. Lotta potential that they missed out on. Glad they got some Zen'tabra action, but that's about it. I don't count them out to not deliver for 5.4, but who knows.
On a less serious note: HORDE BIAS ANYWAY. ALWAYS AND FOREVER. OMFG BILZARD.
GC only said about changing Alliance racials so that they may stay on the same level as Hordish.
Still, Unlikely to happen.