Allied Races made faction imbalance even worse.

[Laqweeta]

AP, Gold, Resources, Pearls. It's better than you think it is

Oh wow, I get 60 more AP from a WQ if I go Alliance! Oh wow, War Resources that are usless! Oh nice, I get 6 more gold on a WQ!

P i t i f u l.

Add 30% rep :>

[xGLxAnubis]

Vulpera being attractive to the human eye is a fundamentally disgusting idea.

Really? Attractive doesn't have to be sexual. Look at how crazy people go over cat/puppy pics. It's the same concept with Vulpera.

[bowlink]

Vulpera being attractive to the human eye is a fundamentally disgusting idea.

Dude we as a species are literally hardwired to find things with exaggerated features cute and indearing, why do you think everyone likes puppies and kittens.

[FlubberPuddy]

Vulpera being attractive to the human eye is a fundamentally disgusting idea.

As others have stated, it's akin to the attraction a baby/kitten/puppy causes.

What I will never understand is when humans try to deny their own human nature.

[Laqweeta]

You're being a bit hyperbolic, 30% AP from a 500 AP world quest or 30% more gold from a 200g world quest does add up.

These are such minuscule amounts though, they really are. What is an extra 60g when a wow token sells for 200k gold? Or when you can just run an old raid in 10 minutes and make 1500g?

If they were to add a 30% increase in rep for Alliance (because everything is tied to rep nowadays), I feel Alliance would get quite the boost.

[Hastis]

Noone plays as gnome so why anyone should play as mechagnome? i mean mechagnomes are better than those normal but they are still gnomes

[Laqweeta]

Well then you'd probably have the reverse problem. 30% reputation bonus would simply be too powerful, the only reason the bonus exists is because more horde players increases your chance to be ganked etc and having time wasted. If you turn warmode off, the faction imbalance becomes irrelevant and you won't need to care about any bonus

Exactly. So just give it to Alliance as an incentive for rolling one.

[helloapathy]

all content releases should be ceased immediately to solve the issue of the game getting progressively worse

[Alphatorg]

Assuming the source is accurate for the sake of the argument:

According to warcraftrealms the there is 58% to 42% ratio between Horde and Alliance to begin with, so number of allied race characters being split 50/50 wouldn't actually be balanced.

Then there is the furry factor, which breaks this comparison, because while Vulpera are Blizzard's recent attempt to harness the furry community on Horde side, their Alliance counterpart is concentrated on Worgen, which isn't part of allied races.

If you exclude the furry factor and remove Vulpera and for balance sake Mechagnomes you end up with 14476:9601 allied races or 60%-40% furry adjusted split, which comes reasonably close to the overall faction split of the players base.

[Kithelle]

I Like blood elfs because armor dores not look like shit like the shoulders of orcs or everything on trolls and tauren. I play a Zandalari becuase of the same reason and they can become druids

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Yes weebs are worse. Sexualizing children. She looks like a ten year old but its allright she actually is 500 years old. Smh...

But sorry that was off Topic. Bu i don't think worgen really fall into the furries territory. They are to rough for their hairy souls.

Do you even know what a weeb is? I guess to you Japanese culture is nothing but video games and anime huh? And because you like anime you must totally be into loli...way to make very broad assumptions.

[pacotaco]

Vulpera so high in the list? Oh no.

I assume it's the novelty. We'll see how much of those numbers stick until Shadowlands

[Djuntas]

Why is this a surprise...The alliance is beyond dead. In EU we have what 3 realms thats somewhat populated...Silvermoon, Ravencrest......maybe 1 more. Anyway wow is ofc also not as popular as it once was, but this hord trend started already in TBC.

[delus]

Are you setting it to 120-120?

[Swnem]

Yup, i agree. It's completely irresponsable from the devs. Part of the reason i'm not subbed anymore.

[Asmonbronze]

Yup, i agree. It's completely irresponsable from the devs. Part of the reason i'm not subbed anymore.

I enjoyed levelling multiple 120s even of same class with the Allied Races



-- Brother of Asmongold --

[Plehnard]

Update:
Vulpera snatched the prime position from the Zandalari now, Void elves are now in third place:

Vulpera	6507	19,5	H
Zandalari	6153	18,4	H
Void Elf	5412	16,2	A
Nightborne	4501	13,5	H
Mag'Thar	3291	9,8	H
Highmountain	2059	6,2	H
Dark Iron	1929	5,8	A
Lightforged	1906	5,7	A
Kul Tiran	911	2,7	A
Mechagnome	770	2,3	A

Overall Vulpera even managed to get ahead of Worgen numbers. The top two Horde allied races are more than all of the Alliance allied combined (by a wide margin 37,8%:32,7% Rest of the allied Horde races combined 29,4%).

[conceptKitty]

[H] Zandalari Troll - Unique good looking model, very popular.
[A] Void Elf - Reskin but of one of the most popular races in the game
[H] Nightborne - Unique good looking model (although I believe it uses the same skeleton as night elves), very popular.
[H] Vulpera - Uses the same skeleton as goblins (I believe?) but sorta unique and extremely popular.
[H] Mag'thar Orc - Reskin
[H] HighMountain Tauren - Reskin
[A] Dark Iron - Reskin
[A] Lightforged Draenei - Reskin
[A] Kul Tiran - Unique awful looking model. Not very popular.
[A] Mechagnome - Reskin that's somehow worse than the original that wasn't very good to begin with.

If they hadn't given the alliance as many reskins it would've been better.

[A] Kul Tiran - Unique awful looking model. Not very popular.

Ahahahahaha
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I thought Kul'Tiran's shared the Orc skeleton or the Vrykul? Could be wrong.
Alliance in general had the short end of the stick.

[Oswen]

To the surprise of noone, everyone plays Horde nowadays, Alliance is a dead faction.

Not to mention that historically the Horde receives pretty much everything they wanted and some more even if there is no lore implication...with the sole exception of Ogres which must be some sort of internal taboo at this point.
It doesn't matter if it doesn't resonate well with the faction, if there is a willingness for it the Horde will get it and lore will bend for it, be it magical popular Night Elves from Legion, the long requested Zandalari and "Brown Orcs", tiny cute foxes and so on.

Alliance, on the other hand, never receives what they ask for and when they do it's usually in an odd twisted way like the Void Elves.
It doesn't matter if they ask for something cool (Sethrak), boring (Wildhammer, High Elves) or ugly (Broken, Furbolg), they'll never receive it and Allied Races showed that big time.
Instead Blizzard will go for "something different" just for the sake of it and please no one with things like Kul Tiran and Mechagnomes.
Overall I feel sorry for them.

[Unlimited Power]

Alliance, on the other hand, never receives what they ask for and when they do it's usually in an odd twisted way like the Void Elves.
It doesn't matter if they ask for something cool (Sethrak), boring (Wildhammer, High Elves) or ugly (Broken, Furbolg), they'll never receive it and Allied Races showed that big time.

Sethrak were never built to be an allied race in the way Vulpera is. Gear, especially helmets, would be a hard fit on them, and lore wise Sethrak have far more interaction with the Horde anyway, even being present at the crowning of Talanji.

And one of the character customizations shown off at Blizzcon was Wildhammer tattoos for dwarves, so that claim is just dishonest.

As for Void Elves (and by extension High Elves), Blizzard have always been adamant that Blood Elves are the de facto High Elves of WoW, and alliance would not get an identical race with blue eyes. Void Elves was a way for Blizzard to compromise and give alliance Thalassian elves without them being a complete rip off of Blood Elves.

Besides, even though horde did receive Nightborne that both factions had been asking for, the actual implementation of the race was wholly disappointing and they look nothing like their NPC counterparts people had been asking for.

[msdos]

Going by straight eye ball and experience, not numbers whatsoever, I see nothing but elves and trolls (not literally obviously). Zanda trolls have been wanted for a long long time and they look really cool. Elves are elves, enough said.

But one thing is that I see more dwarves than you'd expect. The dwarves in WoW feel more Tolkien than the Battle of Five Army dwarves and WoW's dwarves are inspired by them lol, imo.