Posted by Gravecat at 10:16 pm under World of Warcraft. Comments (4)
I don’t think any of us wanted it to end like this, saying goodbye to the Horde cities one last time before we faction-transfer over to join our other friends on the Alliance side, but it honestly feels like there’s no real choice anymore. The faction balance on European World of Warcraft realms — the PVE ones, at least — is absurdly biased towards the Alliance, with most being outnumbered by three or even four times, world PVP objectives such as Wintergrasp and the older Outland areas such as Halaa are what I bitterly refer to as perma-blue, a state where the Alliance simply swarm in with superior numbers every time the Horde make any attempt to capture, and time and time again, Blizzard have shown no particular willingness to even lift a finger to change the status quo.
Worse, the people we know who play the game are split across factions, some of them clinging vehemently to the Horde side with the Fluff guild, others occupying the Alliance as Steel Vanguard, both sides too staunch to change their position until now. With raiding possibilities looking bleak due to dwindling numbers and PVP being little more than a joke as the larger-sized Alliance faction facerolls everything with glutinous fury, it’s harder and harder to find reasons to keep playing Horde. I’ll miss being a Tauren and I’ll miss Thunder Bluff, Orgrimmar and the Undercity — never did like Silvermoon much — but I won’t miss being the underdog time and time again, and having the odds stacked so heavily against me.
Churchwood — May 22nd, 2010 @ 12:02 am
You could always level a new Horde toon just to experience all of the Horde-y stuff whenever you feel “homesick.” That takes time you might not be willing to invest, though.
Lu — May 22nd, 2010 @ 12:17 am
I will abandon this body. In my passing, I will send news to each and every star.
Mycroft — May 22nd, 2010 @ 4:02 am
If you feel nostalgic you could always get your guild together and organize a visit. Go say hi to Thrall and Vol’jin, Cairne, Sylvanas, and whoever’s in fagcity.
In Wintergrasp, though, don’t you get ever-increasing buffs the longer your side doesn’t have the fortress? I thought Blizzard designed it that way so that even if you were outnumbered it’d still be changing hands every so often.
As for Halaa, maybe you should be lucky that anyone cares about it at all. I just went and took it last night by myself on my 80, and only one 65 Alliance bothered to stop by. I realized I need to kill a ton of players over there in order to get the mounts they offer, and I’ll probably never get that.
Gravecat — May 22nd, 2010 @ 3:39 pm
Oh, I’ve still got a few old Horde alts who I didn’t transfer — due to the obnoxious fees (£20!?), I wasn’t going to send everyone over, just my mains.
As for Wintergrasp, ahahahano. Tenacity simply does not work, and that’s something anyone who plays on the under-populated side will discover. More people on a team, even without the rather meager buff, means more vehicles, more area to cover, more stunlocks and fears, and more people to cluster inside the fortress causing so much lag that it’s near-impossible to actually assault it.
Trust me on this: Tenacity does not work. Ever.