A few words about Faction imbalance.
Greetings,
with Warmanes recent introduction to counter faction balance issues, the Alliance have received:
- Free faction transfers from Horde to Alliance
- Increased experience rates, from x7 to x10
- Increased honor rates, from x1 to x1.5
However, I believe Warmane does not address the real issue, and what will cause even more players to switch to the horde.
The horde has always been the premium faction for Top raiding guilds and players, due to better racials giving an edge over the Alliance.
This problem has been present and is still present on retail, which almost forces Top Alliance guilds to go horde due to a shortage of members.
I have a character on both Horde and Alliance, and the difference between guilds could not be greater.
Just take a look at the PvE Ladder for example, as of now (06.05) the sum of guilds that cleared Naxx25 (killing KT) is 55 for both factions.
However, upon closer inspection one will realise that out of those 55 guilds, only 1 Alliance guild is in the top 10 kill timer for KT,
in total there are only 7(!) guilds on the Alliance side that managed to slay KT. 7 out of 55 guilds are from the faction that is supposed to be around 45% of Frostmournes
population.
Considering these facts, I believe there will be even more good players switching to the Horde, leaving Alliance in an even worse state.
I don't have the answer to this problem, but it is an apparent one and it will grow bigger.