Shadowlands Prediction: The 3rd Faction

[vertigo12]

Draka and the dead Iron Horde: Undead Orcs
Kaelthas: Undead Elves
Caelia: Undead Human
Derek Proudmoore: Undead Kultiran
Bolvar
Uther
Emperor Shaohao
Voljin
Rastakhan
Cairne Bloodhoof/ Huln Highmountain


The Shadowlands Denizens of Ardenweald, Revendreth, Maldraxus & Bastion
Undead Elves
Undead Human
Undead Kultirans/Kvaldr
The Forsaken


Seems like they can be a cast which can make a new solid "Undead" faction not tied with either Alliance or Horde

[Maljinwo]

Or we don't because a third faction would split up the players even more

[Henako]

This seems like a bad prediction.

[Aresk]

While it does look like they could, what would be the point of adding a third faction? That would require more quest creation for any faction story, further divide the player base, and provide almost no content to level from. How would faction specific things like running the old Argent Tournament raid work? Where would their portal be in Vale of Eternal Blossoms? Where would their base be in Warsong Gulch? It seems like they'd either feel like an after thought or require way too much effort to implement in everything that was designed for a two-faction game.

[CalamityHeart]

It's far, far too late to even consider making any sort of third faction.

And even if it wasn't, this seems more like stupid, wild guessing than a reasonable prediction. They'd have to have led with this. A third faction isn't something you just drop in the middle of an expansion or start talking about or implementing in the latter half of Alpha. If they were going to do something like this, they would have told us when Shadowlands was first revealed.

The amount of work that would need to be done to the world to accommodate an entirely new faction would be astronomical. It would have to make Cataclysm's world overhaul look like a fucking joke in comparison, and that's only taking Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms into consideration. Just about every single area in the game would need to be updated in some big way or another. The effort that Blizzard would have to put into fitting a third faction into WoW is enough for its own separate game and then some. There's no way.

[Sharnie786]

What they should do is just keep 2 factions and make every race neutral so players pick which side. ESO and other games do it really well.

[The Butt Witch]

What they should do is just keep 2 factions and make every race neutral so players pick which side. ESO and other games do it really well.

Yep, I can agree with that. Make two factions based on ideologies, and not on race.

Alliance: honor, sacrifice
Horde: pragmatism, freedom

Any race can choose any faction.

[Azadina]

It's far, far too late to even consider making any sort of third faction.

And even if it wasn't, this seems more like stupid, wild guessing than a reasonable prediction. They'd have to have led with this. A third faction isn't something you just drop in the middle of an expansion or start talking about or implementing in the latter half of Alpha. If they were going to do something like this, they would have told us when Shadowlands was first revealed.

The amount of work that would need to be done to the world to accommodate an entirely new faction would be astronomical. It would have to make Cataclysm's world overhaul look like a fucking joke in comparison, and that's only taking Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms into consideration. Just about every single area in the game would need to be updated in some big way or another. The effort that Blizzard would have to put into fitting a third faction into WoW is enough for its own separate game and then some. There's no way.

Pretty much all that there is to say on this topic. Although, I wouldn't even qualify this "prediction" as wild guessing either. It's based on nothing whatsoever, aka, it's nonsense.

[Kiivar86]

They have a hard enough time with two factions as-is.

Also why on earth would Emperor Shaohao join up with those people?

[Rustedsaint]

No , In fact this idea is quite dumb if you think about it for more then 2 seconds.
You don’t just add a third faction into your game years after it release to split the player base even more.
The Only way this could possibly work out if they allowed cross factions pve but blizzard shown no signs of allowing that and even stated they currently have no plans to allow it.

[vertigo12]

No , In fact this idea is quite dumb if you think about it for more then 2 seconds.
You don’t just add a third faction into your game years after it release to split the player base even more.
The Only way this could possibly work out if they allowed cross factions pve but blizzard shown no signs of allowing that and even stated they currently have no plans to allow it.

A faction split maybe necessary and could even result to having a fourth one when things escalate. We do have Tyrande's NE going rogue and Greymane still actively going after Sylvans a d doesn't even care about their alliance now. They may discover something good or bad which would let them abandon their faith or even contradict with the morals if the alliance and further let them embrace their night warrior identity.

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They have a hard enough time with two factions as-is.

Also why on earth would Emperor Shaohao join up with those people?

He became the mist of Pandaria and the mist have been long gone. He is a persona with huge amount of Anima and he would be somewhere in the Shadowlands related to Pandaren afterlife or those with mogus, and related Denizens of Azeroth.

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No , In fact this idea is quite dumb if you think about it for more then 2 seconds.
You don’t just add a third faction into your game years after it release to split the player base even more.
The Only way this could possibly work out if they allowed cross factions pve but blizzard shown no signs of allowing that and even stated they currently have no plans to allow it.

Warcraft did that with WC3, nobody dared to question.

[Doffen]

Yep, I can agree with that. Make two factions based on ideologies, and not on race.

Alliance: honor, sacrifice
Horde: pragmatism, freedom

Any race can choose any faction.

100% behind this idea.

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Warcraft did that with WC3, nobody dared to question.

Not even remotely the same thing, if you don't mean that this third faction will only be npcs. Then sure. Its like a reputation faction then. But Covenant kinda do this so 4 more factions in Shadowlands, by that criteria.

[Rustedsaint]

A faction split maybe necessary and could even result to having a fourth one when things escalate. We do have Tyrande's NE going rogue and Greymane still actively going after Sylvans a d doesn't even care about their alliance now. They may discover something good or bad which would let them abandon their faith or even contradict with the morals if the alliance and further let them embrace their night warrior identity.

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He became the mist of Pandaria and the mist have been long gone. He is a persona with huge amount of Anima and he would be somewhere in the Shadowlands related to Pandaren afterlife or those with mogus, and related Denizens of Azeroth.

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Warcraft did that with WC3, nobody dared to question.

Warcraft was a Rts with different campaigns not a splitting of the player bases. If you need someone to explain the difference between a mmo and a rts then your beyond help.

[Nihilist74]

I don't think blizzard is going to put in the work to make a third playable faction.

[hynx]

3rd faction never gonna happen under this game engine.
give it up.
its gonna let you down
gonna run around and dessert you
gonna make you cry, and say goodbye
its gonna lie and hurt you.

[MrLachyG]

Draka - Undead Orcs
Kaelthas - Undead Elves
Caelia -Undead Human
Derek Proudmoore - Undead Kultiran
Bolvar
Uther
Emperor Shaohao
Voljin

The Shadowlands Denizens of Ardenweald, Revendreth, Maldraxus & Bastion
Undead Elves
Undead Human
Undead Kultirans/Kvaldr
The Forsaken


Seems like the cast can make a new solid "Undead" faction not tied with either Alliance or Horde

nope, horrible idea. 2 factions is good. don't change what ain't broken. also, maybe give up the prediction game cause yeah they're all wrong

[vertigo12]

While it does look like they could, what would be the point of adding a third faction? That would require more quest creation for any faction story, further divide the player base, and provide almost no content to level from. How would faction specific things like running the old Argent Tournament raid work? Where would their portal be in Vale of Eternal Blossoms? Where would their base be in Warsong Gulch? It seems like they'd either feel like an after thought or require way too much effort to implement in everything that was designed for a two-faction game.

Have you seen what they're currently doing? They are removing the structure they've built about 10 years ago.

New introduction leveling zone and quest. Level bracket removed. Max level crunch.

The story retold from a different vantage point. From Illidan's, from Sylvanas', maybe from Arthras or Kaelthas.

Those who are labeled evil are being justified.

[Delano]

There is not a third faction coming, nor will there ever. If anything is going to change relating to the factions at this point, it'll be abolishing the faction divide in the first place.

[vertigo12]

100% behind this idea.

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Not even remotely the same thing, if you don't mean that this third faction will only be npcs. Then sure. Its like a reputation faction then. But Covenant kinda do this so 4 more factions in Shadowlands, by that criteria.

Sure not the same genre but the same title. All the inspiration and concept from the first 3 strategy game have been ported and implemented in an MMORPG game we know today.

There is no more Lich King and seems like after Shadowlands the concept of life and death or life after death will be blurred and manifesting in one homogenous reality.

Arthras: I see only darkness.
Sylvanas: This world is a prison, and I will set us all free.

[Newname1234567890]

What would a third faction of reskins serve?