Shadowlands Prediction: The 3rd Faction

[cocomen2]

They cant add Ogres,Hozens,Hight elfs,Wildhammer dorfs or even bother with new class...... yet you hope on 3rd faction? WAKE up man

[vertigo12]

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.

I am not saying they will do so in the middle of Shadowlands. They may do so at the later end of Shadowlands which would lead to 10.0.

They are trying to defy death when they face death itself.

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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.

Clue: covenant wars.

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What would a third faction of reskins serve?

Racials, unique Undead features similar to Forsaken not available to Death Knights. Lore expansion post Shadowlands saga.
Clue: blind eye, scars,

Races with Tail option: bony tail, broken tail
Bony hands or hooves
Broken ears or horn
Jaws/mouth showing bones, sunken eyes or bony eyes
For Undead Nightelves: NE with Bolvar skin tone (Burning if Teldrassil tragedy), those who are killed the same way as Bolvar during Wrathgate tragedy
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Skin color to either: Sylvanas, Nathanos, Caelia, Kael'thas, Derek

Those who chose to be Forsworn, Venthyr, Kyrian,etc.

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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.

The third Faction is a neutral Faction of those who are living dead. They may stay within this brand new third Faction or decide to either join the alliance or the horde much like Pandaren.

The third Faction is a Faction of those who have been bested and tasted death but have experienced the afterlife, a concept mortals from both Faction might have a different point if view of. There is life after death.

See Bolvar, Caelia, Voljin, Derek, etc.

Why do you think in BfA quest are introduced to either become Sylvanas loyalist or pro Horde. Why is there a choice to be aligned with the gift of N'Zoth and choose not to?

[Encaitar29]

Draka and the dead Iron Horde: Undead Orcs

Draka in the Shadowlands is MU Draka, mother of Thrall, not AU Draka, mother of Gey'rah. Unless Blizzard screws up their own lore again.

[Venziir]

Oh please, Blizzard can hardly manage two factions

[vertigo12]

Oh please, Blizzard can hardly manage two factions

Thus an option for a third one, a neutral Unliving faction.

[MrLachyG]

Thus an option for a third one, a neutral Unliving faction.

no. that won't happen. stop with your silly predictions

[Redzonetode]

Thus an option for a third one, a neutral Unliving faction.

A third makes it even harder to manage LOL. How do you not see that?

[vertigo12]

A third makes it even harder to manage LOL. How do you not see that?

Because adding more and more allied Races or races itself will bloat both Alliance and Horde. Everybody dies not everyman truly lives.

Once Shadowlands internal structure have been destroyed resurrection, rebirth, reanimation, will be in peril.You either stay alive or become a living dead or be part of a new corporal form of either Shadowlands denizens.

[MrLachyG]

A third makes it even harder to manage LOL. How do you not see that?

i think OP has moved beyond reason now, look at his thread history

[Kelathos]

Editing the Faction system would be nice. (Heck, I want it removed entirely) But this is WoW, and Blizzard does not take risks. When have they heavily altered the core game?

Such topics are more like a fanfic / suggestion / wish list than a possibility.

[Kyphael]

Not on your life. If they're unwilling to do away with the two Faction system because they believe it's fundamental to the game's concept, they're even less likely to muddy waters with a long-anticipated but ill-conceived third faction.

The game should have launched with 4 Factions to begin with, just like we had as many campaigns in Warcraft: Horde, Alliance, Undead (Forsaken), and Night Elves. Undead never belonged in the Horde, and Night Elves never belonged in the Alliance. Other allied races like Furbolgs could have been part of the Sentinel Faction (Night Elves & Woodland races.) Undead could have featured Forsaken of course, San'layn, Blood Elf Survivors, etc.

[Florena]

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.

Not only that but WC 3 was a NEW GAME not an expansion of Warcraft 2.

A WoW 2 built from the ground up could be designed with three factions in mind. But an expansion could not just slap one onto things without massive development time and issues.

[Azerox]

Won't happen.
I see a Union between Horde an Alliance happening soon(er).

[vertigo12]

Not on your life. If they're unwilling to do away with the two Faction system because they believe it's fundamental to the game's concept, they're even less likely to muddy waters with a long-anticipated but ill-conceived third faction.

The game should have launched with 4 Factions to begin with, just like we had as many campaigns in Warcraft: Horde, Alliance, Undead (Forsaken), and Night Elves. Undead never belonged in the Horde, and Night Elves never belonged in the Alliance. Other allied races like Furbolgs could have been part of the Sentinel Faction (Night Elves & Woodland races.) Undead could have featured Forsaken of course, San'layn, Blood Elf Survivors, etc.

That's what they are doing now. It just got postponed when suppose to be Shadowlands would be the next Expac after WotLK but got moved upon release of Cata.