Doesn't this seem like a datamining oddity? I don't really see what this accomplishes. Maybe the Dev Team should do a write up and explain this one to us... Has Alliance ever even had the option to be mercenaries for the Horde?I think since the feature was introduced it's been a one way street. Horde can come over to the other side of the coin for more honor if they want, or stay on the side that wins more handily.
I stopped playing WOW 2 months ago. I very seriously doubt I will come back, but this has been a long time coming. Now how about making some Huge changes to PVP to keep people playing. As it is now, I doubt PVP will remain viable. I was in a PVP guild in Legion, and I watched it drop from 900 member to around 500 members, and then BFA bottomed it out. From a little over 500 members to 225 members. That should tell people the state of PVP......And the main reason I stopped playing.
WAAAIT? so aliance have +50% honor.. and +20% bonus for WQ and exp ?WTF blizzard ?
This is just more evidence of the faction imbalance in the game and blizzard continuing to stick their head in the sand over the matter, and yes I realize that there are a small handful of servers that are alliance heavy. Years of horde biased racial abilities and a lack of control on blizzards end have lead to this massive tilt in balance. Removing faction racial abilities will do nothing since there will be no incentive for players to change and giving alliance powerful abilities will cause screaming from players. There really is no fix to this issue that does not lead to a dumpster fire, though we already have a pile of garbage covered in lighter fluid with people like J Allen Brack holding the matches.
What a great change. The already suffering faction will suffer even more now due to no help from horde side, and on the other hand horde will suffer from longer queue times. All in all its a lose-lose situation. Hopefully people can come up to a deal where alliance just takes a fall every bg since they get around the same honour for a loss as horde does for winning. It'd only make sense.
Ehm... kids everywhere...... Horde this Alliance that...... Please, remove the factions - it's boring and outdated habit - problem solved
Did we just forget alliance still to this day has HIGHER gain from world quests? Faster rep grind faster mana pearl grind means a lot more than several essences thats mostly unused.
WoW: "Pardon me while I sneakily start removing the current cross-faction content pipeline..."
Most people already have it by now - the essence. Its only going to hurt people's alts and anyone who rerolls a new class - and even then all the hardcores already have that done so it really isn't going to do much. Besides expansion is already past the halfway point, if someone was going to grind honor for honor levels horde wouldn't have that advantage come 8.2.5. Kinda blowing up something that doesn't really effect many people.