To start this off i will say i currently have a 70 alliance shaman and a 30+ horde toon i am levelling too,
i am not biased or exaggerating when i say in zones where you have to come across the opposite faction (lets stick to outland) for every other alliance i see, i see maybe 10, 15 or 20 horde. if i log in at more offpeak times it is also impossible to get dungeon groups, meanwhile i see multiple horde groups at meeting stones any time day or night, same goes for elite quests, horde groups camp them 24/7 and they are impossible as alliance as there is simply not enough people to mount an offence into 20+ horde at a quest.
as we all know having one faction far outweigh the other, while it may be fun initially for the larger faction, it just ruins servers in the long run.
while i have read many suggestions on the forums, queue manipulation to favor alliance, faction changes etc, none of these really work, not to mention its not fair to be able to level easy mode as horde then faction chance to alliance.
my suggestion is to allow current and new alliance members to buy all riding skills at a 50% discount (maybe not epic flying), this allows you access to tempest keep instances, kara attument and some quality of life without such a heavy need to farm post 70 in the first few days/weeks, which as mentioned above due to the sheer number of horde around means you will get ganked at any popular money making spot, or even just doing quests at max level.
i feel this is a nice incentive for people to roll alliance or current alliance to stay and not reroll horde. it gives a nice bump in the first few weeks of the expansion with no long term detrimental effects on the server factions or economy.
what do you guys think?
other ideas could be to drop horde xp to x3 or increase alliance to x7 (i prefer raising alliance over dropping horde as this is a bonus to alliance without punishing horde)
Also instead of 50% discount, you coul dkeep normal ground and epic ground at normal cost, and gift flying to alliance who reach level 70 as an incentive to get max level.
anyway these are just suggestions, feel free to discuss
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Member
A suggestion for faction balance
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Member
I was thinking about free character migration one way from horde to alliance.
Im affraid about bg's tho. Will be unplayable for horde because of long queue and for alliance for lack of players, if nothing happens.
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Member
The thing is though, we want to reward players for picking or sticking with alliance somehow, but not allow horde the bonus of easier, more efficiant and smoother levelling then let them get a free change to alliance for fast bg queues or whatever, that is a bit of a slap in the face to those of us who levelled the hard way on alliance.
that being said the incentive has to be big enough to lure people from horde to alliance but not game breaking or faction ruining in the long term, which is where a discount on riding skill or free flying skill at max level would be good, it benefits alliance highly in the next few weeks but the advantage disappears beyond that
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Member
only free 70 lvl alliance will fix problem , but this will never happen , so let it be how it's now
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Moderator
First, wrong section. We have a whole one named for Suggestions.
Second, it has already been stated plenty of times that no bribes are going to be included to get people in this or that faction. Picking Alliance is just picking Alliance, no feat deserving of "rewards."
