Faction Change - Who's going to?Follow

agree 100%. the price was set that high to limit demand, not as a reflection of any of the actual "work" involved in the process.

What?

0-80 takes 8-9 days played if you are dedicated, 10-15 for the average player

Lets call it 8 days played.

Then to get gear you need about 18 hours played (toc/nax 10+ulduar/toc raid pugs) more if you don’t find a decent guild/pug.


That’s 210 hours in the best possible scenario. $0.14/hour




What is going to be funny for the next few weeks is the fake “elitism” of “oh I bet you’ve only been horde for a day. GTFO alliance kiddy”

Plus people in tier9 are going to be asking for directions in undercity =P


Honestly I think this faction change will be used more by arena people that got sick of constant re-rolling to team up with good partners, raiders that want more options or just to try something new, and people that like to play battlegrounds..

As for most of the casuals in this thread saying they wouldn’t use it, not surprising.


I am taking a break from wow till 3.3 is on the ptr

If the battlegrounds are still a majority win for horde I'll prob make my rogue undead, priest undead and paladin bloodelf (till tauren)

I think it really depends on if the battlegrounds change much for me...I also think a lot of the kids that rolled bloodelf will be rolling worgen so alliance will get even weaker


Edited, Sep 3rd 2009 9:48am by Smoopie

I plan at least one. And I will RP it, since I like RP. It'll be after the expansion. My Gnome Warlock is revealed to have been a Goblin agent in disguise, who was spying on the Alliance in preparation for the upcoming Goblin/Horde Alliance.

The only downside is that I'll have to level 'chanting again on some other toon Ally side.

I really, really hope Blizzard releases some demographic info on this change. I really want to see how the transfers shake down: if more people turn alliance or more people turn horde, what races people are most likely to become, and so on.

If I had to guess, I’d say that human would be the most popular single race to become, as arena junkies jump ship to what is perceived as the most powerful PVP racial set, and gnomes come in dead last due to their small set of possible classes that does not include druid.

No way would I change factions. Forget it. Not worth the money, not enough value to me.

I can understand why some people would, but I am not one of them.

I think it's possible the opposite could happen. Supposing all those Alliance who think the only reason they lose BG's is because they're Alliance, rather than because they cap nodes and run off leaving them undefended, transfer Horde side and inflict their badness on us? Now we've got our badness plus their badness plus some hardcore arena peeps changing to Alliance for the racials resulting in a worse pool of PVPers overall.

I think a lot of the transferring will depend on server though. My server forums are already lit up with Alliance talking about transferring, but none of the reverse. I believe the most progressed guilds are Horde.

bodhi? lol

i was referring to the amount of effort on blizz's end, not the player.

When this goes live, I may do it, if I have the money (still to see if it's gonna cost £30 or if the price will be the £ equivalent of $30). I'm mainly considering it because my Undead Warrior is 5 years old and only level 72. I just can't stand to look at his elbows any more!

Have to wonder what this will do for quests. I noted that faction specific quests will be deleted from your list and reputations will get transfered per their list, but I wonder if you can take an 80 to the other faction and do all the northrend quests for the new faction. That could add up to a few coppers.....

Our Horde guild is doing Naxx 10 tonight for the first time. I'm the only one with any experience. I wish I had 60 bucks to pay for one of our alliance tanks to transfer for the evening and back...

I wish we crushed the alliance in AV. We win EVERYTHING but AV.

Call me an idiot, but...

Ellieann had done her best, and while she was able to prevent Crusader Bridenbrad from joining the forces of the Scourge, she found herself infected by the same disease. By a terrible stroke of misfortune, she was unable to return to Highlord Tirion Fordring or A'dal, and wasted away in a small pocket of Icecrown.

She awoke one morning, surrounded by rotting cadavers and bloated abominations. In a panic, she tried to flee, but was gently restrained by the undead that surrounded her. They informed her that, sadly, she was living no longer, but now one of the Forsaken. She had been found and brought to Undercity in time to save her from becoming Scourge herself, but could not prevent her from her undying. In a fit of despair, she cast off all that she used to be, renaming herself Evilynne.

Yes, I pinked up the $30. I look at it this way- I make more than $30 per hour- I can spend $30 changing factions, which saves me hours of leveling another toon. She's going to mainly be a farmer for my lowbie, so I at least can experience all the Horde-side quests properly on my Tauren druid. But now, Proudfoot's got a sugar momma!

Edited, Sep 4th 2009 4:50pm by Wondroustremor

Female orc go!