Fixing Faction balance, Ideas

Hello Warmane team,
I just want to share my ideas about things that could help to manage faction balance.

1. Add character template in all new accounts with name Play Alliance please. ( I remember some server did it, really shows direction to new player ).
2. Make in-game annoucement, regulary telling players, that alliance need more players. ( Could inform some new players )
3. Fix Faction change, so people would have reputations earned and others things except maybe Flight path i can find a way how it could remain. ( Reputations: Oggrimar to Ironforge, same with other capitals. Thallmar to Honor hold, so transfered player could do honor hold quests to increase more rep. )
So finding a way to change character race, but keeping in-game everything he did, without creating completely new character).
4. Making first level 30 mount to cost 5 gold instead.
5. Accounts locked to faction. So server could make faction queue and alliance get free pass. ( But i have no idea what you would need to do with people who has 70 horde and 70 ally on same acc allready)

I think changing racials or something would cause alot of problems. Same with increased exp to alliance, it would only make hordes to level alliance professions alts and trade later on booty bay auction. So first 5 reasons could do most without changing anything in game.

Hey,

i agree on everything that does not directly change phase of gameplay. My honest opinion would be to lock horde character creation for a while until something close to balance is achieved. Might be a harsh way to do it but it might as well work.

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Originally Posted by LogitechX

Hey,

i agree on everything that does not directly change phase of gameplay. My honest opinion would be to lock horde character creation for a while until something close to balance is achieved. Might be a harsh way to do it but it might as well work.

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Yea locking creation is another option, but may hurt new players feeling forced to play alliance, instead of kindly asking them and offering some good things.

Remove every racial from the game and GG. People only play horde for imba racials.

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Originally Posted by Delenis

Remove every racial from the game and GG. People only play horde for imba racials.

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I can allready feel tears from players, it would be major change to game. For alot of classes those racials feels like another skill.

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Originally Posted by popsik

I can allready feel tears from players, it would be major change to game. For alot of classes those racials feels like another skill.

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This is the problem, horde has the greater racials, while alliance ones sucks.

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Originally Posted by Delenis

This is the problem, horde has the greater racials, while alliance ones sucks.

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Go play wotlk then?

Not every expansion need Alliance racials to dominate!

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Originally Posted by blablalbla

Go play wotlk then?

Not every expansion need Alliance racials to dominate!

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Wotlk is 50-50 in population. This realm is 2-1 to the horde.

Remove active racials, not passive ones. That's a better option to suggest.

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Originally Posted by juxuanu1

Remove active racials, not passive ones. That's a better option to suggest.

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Then everybody will play orcs xD

I would like to share maybe two things that could help to fix the balance

1. Create a npc for alliance which gives Gold at certain lvls (10g at lvl20, 20 at lvl30, 40 at lvl 40 or something). Its nothing you can really abuse
since 70g is like 7 quests at lvl70
Additionally you could put down a vendor with blue/green items for low lvls (from 15-40), which cost as much as their sell prices
2. I dont know if this is possible in any way but there should be an option to change you racial(depending on class not on race like willoftheforsaken for mage, warlock, priest, warrior, rogues) or orc racial to those classes orcs can create

We just have to admit that this expansion was very very bad designed by blizzard, being the expansion with the most unbalanced racials of all, even with EMFH, it was better balanced for both factions than now (Proof: Wotlk for example is 50-50), with alliance racials useless for everything. People wanted to play TBC, now you stand with unbalanced races and factions, have thought about it before open/Play TBC realms. I just will play alliance in TBC as a challenger (wow nightmare mode).

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Originally Posted by Slann154

Then everybody will play orcs xD

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I'd rather play, i.e., humans for the spirit and rep

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Originally Posted by Delenis

Remove every racial from the game and GG. People only play horde for imba racials.

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Hahahha, no.

On-topic: I've seen the lock character creation option many times before and it has worked. It does not change gameplay and it still allows players to play on their mains.

How about a way to OPT out of world pvp? AKA turn yourself blue no matter where you are. Then imbalance would have no meaning whatsoever