The issue of faction imbalance

[thealexyto]

Well since Mercy suggest to make a new topic about " The issue of faction imbalance", i will like to share my idea that can be a possible answer to our problem.

-If we play PVP as same faction (Ally against Mercenary-also ally players) maybe you can't actuality talk with em in battleground but you can talk in guild chat, so as example: if you got 5 players from guild A and also 5 players from same guild A in same battleground they can talk in guild chat, and shake hands so 1 part will lose BG/ make PVP hard achievements

My idea is: - Blackrock realm take role of mercenary and join bout fraction when need so we can balance factions!

-They use to play as mixed fractions so i guess this is not a issue
-Then all problems will be solved. no more long queue, you can't talk with em during fight (not same realm) and ask to lose a BG/achievements, and so on.

Now i'm wait an official answer from server moderators .

[Drunkuser]

My opinion and suggestion is still the same others and I already addressed in the other topics, working on the human racial.

Remove Every Man For Himself and replace it with Will of Forsaken/Something else. (Just the effect not the name and the icon image)

This would nerf the humans but they would still remain competitive in comparison of the other races. People who play human only for EMFH (a lot) would be incentivate to reroll something else they prefer, thus balancing not only the factions but race balance in general (an alliance with actually something else other than humans roaming around).

Next best race would get the place of humans? I don't think so. No other racial is way near the strength of EMHF.
Horde racials would be better for pvp like TBC? I don't think so, first, horde racials are nerfed as hell in Wotlk and are not as strong as in TBC, second you would actually giving an eventual horde racial to the humans.
Things would be more situational and there wouldn't be a best racial overall. You may say that in this scenario an orc warrior is the best, but playing alliance with a human paladin with a will of forsaken racial for example could be better for 2s, and so on.

My second suggestion is:

Enhance the PVP Medallion. Increase the resilience from 153 to 253, or add a socket place, or a secondary stat such arp or haste, incentivate people to take it into consideration at least in comparison the EMFH.

I really appreciate the effort that Warmane Staff is putting in solving the problem, we are just asking to at least consider the role of EMFH in this.

[Shadowshowz]

Whoever thinks that removing the effectiveness of EMFH will fix the issue is delusional. The only thing that such an action will do is fix arenas to some degree.
The problem here is long bg Qs for allies and faction imbalance. Human is the only good BG option for ally side and the next best thing is on Horde side. Now go and login on Outland realm and see for yourself the faction balance without EMFH. After many bribes and gifts, alliance members are still too far and few between because their racials just suck beyond all reason.

There is a reason why everyone chooses horde for pve - racials are superior in every way. Now if you force the PVP trinket on all ally races, horde will have 20 mins Qs and ally instant, so again you fixed nothing.

All Human paladins would reroll BE in an instant, while warrs, dk and locks would just go orc, mages troll and gg. This can be solved in two ways only, first is the way they are doing now, I hate it myself, I don't want it but it is what it is by making one faction irrelevant by starving it and the second option is to completely remove all racials making the situation completely clean.

[truthwow1]

I suggest to make EMFH retail like.
Removes all stun effects. Shares a 30 sec CD with medallion.

[Ostlimpa]

Or just remove Will of the Forsaken's current effect and make it like EMFH.

[truthwow1]

Or just remove Will of the Forsaken's current effect and make it like EMFH.

Thats a pretty good idea. Maybe even the best.

All classes that can be played as human are also available to undeads so with this change EMFH wouldn't be available to classes that aren't suppose to have it.
In addition more ppl would donate for double pve trinkets so more $$$ for the server.

[Rahmeek]

I agree that boosting the resilience on the pvp medallion would be the best option to balance the factions with the majority going human for every man for himself racial

[dolcokidol]

Every time there's a mention of PVP there's these guys with their "EMFH IS OP" stuff, seriously, the OP didn't even mention that.
It was about how Mercenary can talk to guildies in the same BG and solutions to that.

If you find EMFH so OP reroll human and get up to the top of the ladder, it's easy when you have EMFH, right?

[Rahmeek]

I’m not saying I’m a pro by any means but you can’t say that for someone who is that an extra BiS trinket isn’t a huge advantage. You can see by checking the arena ladder. A lot of people like to min/max making human the most played pvp class by far, which contributes to the faction imbalance