Players who run high M+ and raid Mythic are an incredibly small percentage. Since this is the only content for which a perceived faction imbalance would impact it seems rather silly to make arguments that Blizzard is "ignoring" a problem that is far more pronounced for one specific subsection of players that also has an incredibly high likelihood to also be the kind who posts on fan forums.
Shouldn't be a problem since zones are sharded anyway.
Saying it only affects high mythic+ and mythic raiding is the same. But hey. You allready have your opinion. Endgame PvE is easier on horde side as the pool of players is bigger. Not just high end. Every level. But you seem to be one of the people who think onyl 0,0000000000001% of players do anything in groups anyway no?
So good day.
I fully agree. In BFA it did not seem that bad at least on the PVE side of it but in shadowlands its serioulsy 10 to 1 horde to alliance when I am running around questing. It actually makes stuff hard questing and especially in the maw where the horde are just stomping around and its hard to find untapped mobs it almost feels like classic wow given how outnumbered the alliance seem to be.
What the fuck is this mythical "pool of players" you're speaking of? As of 2019, the balance between Horde and Alliance was almost 1:1. But hey, why base your argument in actual measurable data when you can appeal to emotion and use completely anecdotal evidence to make the problem seem more impactful than it is in actuality? My opinion isn't that a faction imbalance doesn't exist -- it's that if you only base your argument on the shit you read on forums you'd mistakenly believe the problem is a lot worse. For the content 99% of players do, the faction imbalance is completely meaningless.
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This.
People imagine that top 500 scene represents whole WoW population where alliance guilds are 1vs5 horde. It gets way more level if you look at top 3k guilds.
It's like War Mode. There must be a combination of underlying in game and psychological reasons for people who play alliance not to participate in world pvp and high end PvE. It's not just "Horde has better players" or "Horde has better racials".
I for a lot of people I know - we would quit wow before we really joined the alliance. That is how it goes for us.
Either eliminate factions or make racials mirror image. Tauren/Draenai same, night elf/blood elf same, human/undead same, etc....only way I can see to eliminate the imbalance caused by real and/or perceived benefits.
Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries.
Server stability and queues being a shit metric, but Stormrage-US had both and is Alliance dominated. It is also eligible for free transfers off. The faction imbalance is not going away. Even racials won't solve them. Stop with the stupid whining. Warmode as Alliance can often be a lot of fun even when numbers are against us.
We live in an era of "me versus them", an era where something is done that you don't like means you are personally attacked. People whine too much.
Let us play video games and be happy.
The problem with server merging is that the population spikes and wanes depending on content. Servers have to accomodate for the spikes, but the content is not consistent to the players enough to keep them around. There's a huuuuuuge population of people who only play for the story content and leave once that's done. If they merge the low pop servers then it leaves those returning players no where to be, and many who are already in guilds would not expect themselves to be booted off server just because they happen to play casually.
It's more complex than you might think.
If you think any factual difference in number of players is due to racials presently, you are delusional. The Horde is where it is at in PVE level due to the fact that they were historically the superior faction for a decade or more. At this point in time racials are typically a sub 1% difference at Optimal/Sim level of play, which 99% of the players are not at. Racials no longer provide any real meaningful difference, its the fact that the high end players went horde a long time ago, that gives them the advantage in PVE. They have access to a better quality recruitment pool, not a larger recruitment pool. For average players, Faction+Server transfers is still too expensive to justify moving, so everyone stayed horde. That is also why the best guilds are on a limited number of servers, and not spread across servers.
We live in an era of "me versus them", an era where something is done that you don't like means you are personally attacked. People whine too much.
Let us play video games and be happy.
Just turn WM off. Its not THAT big of a deal now anyway. Most stuff we need to complete is a weekly thing now. In BfA the extra % was nice everyday, but its not like that now.
The faction balance is truly and utterly a huge dumpsterpile of shite, but Blizzard wont do anything with it.
And really, what can they do at this point? its gone to far without Blizzard stepping in and try to fix it.
The best solution would be if every alliance player turned on WM, and kept it on at all times.
Blame the player base. Playing on horde people seems a bit more mature. On alliance if a wipe happens during a pug oh my god all hell break lose. At least on horde peoplea re mature enough not to to start pointing fingers. Thats why I left alliance.
o.o Bro, chill the fuck out. What does my server choice has anything to do with this topic? I went to Auchendioun back in like 2013-2014 or so (End of cata) because I finally had enough of my old vanilla realm, which I still miss, and then I moved to this high pop realm (It said high pop back then...Also stop thinking fan sites was as good back then as they are now...) mainly due to having a guild opportunity that I did not want to pass on...
Also we all know that its casuals that drive the growth of wow, your not smart for typing the obvious reddit shit. But what do you want blizzard to do...Give a transmog set for demon hunters or boob lift to humans? Racials back in TBC already made a lot of people go hord - Back in vanilla my realm was one of the biggest in EU, at one time it had queu time AND it housed some of the best guilds in (16# world Imba, iirc) and best pvperes...But what ya know, first Blizzard made faction migration, which drove all the pvperes to hord, and then in WOTLK the final nail happened when alliance side was so dead guilds like Loot FTW (former worlds top 10) just went to our server to have it easy.
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Also this is such a good point. We need bonuses. Its the easiest thing blizzard can do right now and here.
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Also thank you. What more do we need. But blizzard will never tell us the numbers...Also its so fun to play random BGs and have 80% loss rate...I dont care what the numbers say, thats what I get when I try.
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