about damn time, if left up to the alliance to actually get 100 mythic clears this was going to take forever because the "ALLIANCE RACIALS REEEEEEEEEEE" arguement even though the last 3 bosses are with horde racials.
Racials have nothing to do with the imbalance, they are just an easy excuse. In any case where there is an arbitrary separation of player pools, sooner or later one side will cannibalize the other for the sake of improving the quality of their side. If racials were equal everything would have played out the same, one side would have the majority of the top guilds and the other would have been dried up.Want proof? China had the same racials, but they are dominated by Alliance guilds because that's the direction they went, if racials were THE CAUSE you'd have the same situation there, or at the very least not have Alliance dominance, yet that is exactly what is happening.
Horde racials were better years ago and we are still seeing the effects of this. Currently there is almost no disparity between racials pve. I dont think intentionally making alliance racials better is the right answer. That will cause a couple problems.one a mass change to alliance shifting the population imbalance to alliance.Second, because you cant leave one factions racials more powerful they will need to be brought back down (nerfed) and this will cause all sorts of rage from those who moved over.The only thing I can think of that might help is a brief period of free faction/ server swaps. Maybe do this every year or few years.
People didn't all swap to horde in the past few months. It's something that happened way before that and it's just getting worse and worse.
That article title is misleading, BoD Normal/Heroic is already available for cross-realm raiding and has been since launch.
I really think it shouldn't take 11 (it is 11 now right?) weeks for mythic to become crossrealm. The hall of fame can still coexist and be guild-only in my opinion.
FINALLY, but it feels like a punishment! *Irony may be present*I really think blizzard needs to re-think how this works. It kinda feel like smaller and newer guilds, have little to no chance of ever getting into stable mythic raiding like this.I know it's not a new problem, and that it has existed as long as mythic/x-realm raiding, but...This block is getting removed pretty much on top of the next raid tier, leaving hardworking officers and guildmasters turning in their grave. While this guild have been bleeding good players, who are looking for more challenging content, to more famed/older/bigger guilds or they just straight up quit(People who are 415, well experienced from severel expansions). The guild are then also eternally trapped in HC for this amount of time for the same reason, now with a lower quality roster which we also have to gear and learn how to play who time and time again abuse our postition for free boosting and then bounce to their own agenda, frustrating the rest of the players in the guild one by one. And now you're giving us 1 week to clear the Mtyhic content before the next raid tier? -I think multiple tiers being relevant at the same time is VERY cool, but released like this, with the xrealm mythic block, is kinda rough.This is not a problem for already well established guilds, I know, but for gods sake. I'm guild officer and I used to be able to come up with appealing and interesting conversations and advertisements, but now that seemingly have been reduced to:"Hi would you like to join <Guildname here>? Our guild is 9/9 HC & 1/9 M and we simply can't put together enough people so we're stuck because of a stupid(sorry) "threshold of 20 people".. Not only that, but it would be a luck if we got upgrades from it since we're all 410-415.. Raidnights: lol! Even if we bring the first 7-10 geared people from guild to mythic raid, it still takes 1-2 hours to get a full 20-man team together for mythic with LFG-tool and /2 spam. Then the randoms leave again after first boss, even if it's a perfect one-shot with very no-few mistakes, effectively ending the raidnight for us because of 1-2 hours more waiting to gather new people for grong." This is on Tarren Mill EU, not exactly a small server?Sorry for the wall of text, TL:DR:Let me break it down to you what it feels like blizzard are giving you, unless you're super-duper top-R1, well established & 15-year old, rainbow-plat, über-1337-stream-player-guild.........................Clear HC raid, now ur left with:Unending loop of M+ day in and day out, mindless weekly/daily "chores" and raid re-clear. 1 week access to relevant, FUN, challenging Mythic raid-content to ALL consumers(Instead of a select group who happened to be in a guild with more than 20 level-minded people).Profit(still, I guess?).?I understand people that are quitting right now. As it is, i imagine, a lot of people are paying a monthly sub+full price game to feel excluded from the good, fun, sociable, quality end-game content, by an invisible wall of prestige for the few. Does that sound like something familiar? :P
This is ridiculous. You guys argue that due to switch between horde and allience, Allience get "busted” racials so its fair. No. No its f*** not. The problem is that when horde player play horde they choose they racial. I dont choose to be stuiped cow on mekatorque that can stomp enemy and stun. I would rather be troll or elf that have those “busted” abilities. But bliz decided that i will be a cow. Other guy argues that the only time racials make diffrence in high end raiding is some ancient time when dinosours were our friends. Meanwhile in our universe method swith to troll to claim their world first. Wake up people it is ridicilous to argue that racials dont matter and they have nothing to do with faction imbalance. They may be not the only reason for that imbalance, but almost certainly they made and making huge impact on that imbalance