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Throrion

< Ironforge Guards >

Earthen Ring

960. Re: Faction-Change Service in the Works 01/07/2009 09:11:46 PDT

Q u o t e:

The racial thing is not a fair argument. Now you could reroll on the same realm or get another account to roll the other faction and get that racial aswell, whats the difference in that?

For me the only change is that you don't have to start from level 1 again when you want to reroll to the opposite faction so I really don't see the problem here. And it might also improve the faction imbalance a bit on a lot of realms.

Err, the difference is very very simple. In one, you buy your way to the racials and in the other, you earn them through in-game means by putting in the effort of rerolling (which means that it isn't your RL-money that gets them for you, but your dedication to acquire them).

Yogg-Saron: Okay, so this plan is going pretty well. I've set up an impassable ravine between my inner sanctum and the outside world so nobody can get in to stop me.
Kologarn: AND I WILL STAND IN IT.

Lekgolo

< PUG >

Defias Brotherhood

961. Re: Faction-Change Service in the Works 01/07/2009 09:15:44 PDT

Q u o t e:
Can i collect horde mounts such as the new ravasaur thing then switch factions and collect the frostsaber, then be able to keep both?

what about pets?

also forgot to say, this means i can do EVERY horde quest if i do the alliance ones? the joy...

Vaestus

< Blood Riders >

Defias Brotherhood

962. Re: Faction-Change Service in the Works 01/07/2009 09:16:29 PDT

Q u o t e:

Err, the difference is very very simple. In one, you buy your way to the racials and in the other, you earn them through in-game means by putting in the effort of rerolling (which means that it isn't your RL-money that gets them for you, but your dedication to acquire them).

You don't earn anything, the racials are there from level one! And you're not just buying your way into a racial, you're buying your way into the faction and everything that comes with it.

If changing a racial is as far as your argument goes, then you really and no argument at all.

Throrion

< Ironforge Guards >

Earthen Ring

963. Re: Faction-Change Service in the Works 01/07/2009 09:20:34 PDT

Q u o t e:

You don't earn anything, the racials are there from level one! And you're not just buying your way into a racial, you're buying your way into the faction and everything that comes with it.

If changing a racial is as far as your argument goes, then you really and no argument at all.

On a basic level, what you pay for is the new set of racials for your old character. And yes, sure you buy your way into the faction; I couldn't care less and that has absolutely no relevance to this point whatsoever. The point is that you pay real-life money to acquire a set of better racials for your character. It's a very simple logic.

Yogg-Saron: Okay, so this plan is going pretty well. I've set up an impassable ravine between my inner sanctum and the outside world so nobody can get in to stop me.
Kologarn: AND I WILL STAND IN IT.

Cryptwalker

Argent Dawn

964. Re: Faction-Change Service in the Works 01/07/2009 09:27:31 PDT

Q u o t e:

On a basic level, what you pay for is the new set of racials for your old character. And yes, sure you buy your way into the faction; I couldn't care less and that has absolutely no relevance to this point whatsoever. The point is that you pay real-life money to acquire a set of better racials for your character. It's a very simple logic.

At the expense of your guild. If someone was that set on being ahead in PvP using racials, they would have rerolled already.

Spankenator

< Demons and Angels >

Agamaggan

965. Re: Faction-Change Service in the Works 01/07/2009 09:28:48 PDT

mm on one side i think WoW is getting lamer and lamer.

however i think im gonna do it, i regret ever rolling ally/
maybe pvp will be more balanced now :D

you guys got some guts,too bad they are all over the floor

Vaestus

< Blood Riders >

Defias Brotherhood

966. Re: Faction-Change Service in the Works 01/07/2009 09:32:02 PDT

Q u o t e:

On a basic level, what you pay for is the new set of racials for your old character. And yes, sure you buy your way into the faction; I couldn't care less and that has absolutely no relevance to this point whatsoever. The point is that you pay real-life money to acquire a set of better racials for your character. It's a very simple logic.

Which racial is best is a matter of personal preference! It depends on you and your play style. Have you ever thought that some people stand to lose out by changing factions? Stop being so narrow minded - it's swings and roundabouts, ying and yang. So what if some people are going to change factions just because they think the racial is better on the other side - who cares? It's personal preference and has no affect on game mechanics. People will still be playing the game, they'll just be batting for the other side.

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Kathranis

< Dark Origin >

Executus

967. Re: Faction-Change Service in the Works 01/07/2009 10:18:25 PDT

FEMALE DWARF HERE I COME

Wait... what?

Slorkuz

Blizzard Poster

968. Re: Faction-Change Service in the Works 01/07/2009 10:21:41 PDT

Update: 01/07/09: Due to the many questions that have come up with the announcement of this new service, we wanted to take the time to answer the ones we can at this point in time.

Q. Will we be able to switch between the races on our own faction?
A.. No. Players will only be able to switch to a race of the opposite faction.

Q. Will I be able to choose the race on the opposite faction that I want to change to?
A.. Yes, but you will only be able to switch to a race that has your class type available to it. So if you play a human paladin, you’d only be able to change to a blood elf paladin.

Q.How much will it cost?
A.. We do not have further information on this at this point in time.

Q.Will I be able to switch back to my original faction but a different race?
A.. No. You will only be able to switch back to your originally chosen race.

Q.. How will the switch between reputation, gear, mounts, etc be handled?
A.. We’ll have more details for you at a later point in time, though we plan to keep these as close to a reflection of the other faction as much as possible.

Q.How often can you change your faction?
A..We do not have any information to share on this at this point in time, however we will have restrictions on the frequency by which players can change their faction.

Q. How will this affect the balance of Horde and Alliance on the realms?
A.. We are taking great care in how we implement this new service in order to maintain balance between the factions on the realms but do not have any further details to share.

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Kathranis

< Dark Origin >

Executus

969. Re: Faction-Change Service in the Works 01/07/2009 10:24:05 PDT

Q u o t e:
Update: 01/07/09: Due to the many questions that have come up with the announcement of this new service, we wanted to take the time to answer the ones we can at this point in time.

Q. Will we be able to switch between the races on our own faction?
A.. No. Players will only be able to switch to a race of the opposite faction.

Please pretty please :(

Nnoitra

< The Secret Society >

Defias Brotherhood

970. Re: Faction-Change Service in the Works 01/07/2009 10:26:14 PDT

Thanks for the feedback, but what about the PVP realm issue? Will all characters become members of the opposite faction or will we need to transfer/delete them to use the service for one?

Ylvain

< Volgare >

Bloodscalp

971. Re: Faction-Change Service in the Works 01/07/2009 10:30:21 PDT

It would be nice to implement "free faction change" on the servers where its necessary.
On more thing:
Why you cant change your race without factionchange?
Is it so much better if you pay twice for one race change?...
Racials having huge effort in gameplaying, we need to change racials sometimes, mostly after bc>wotlk, we would need.

And one more:
I want to be a GNOME druid !
PLX!

Q u o t e:
Thanks for the feedback, but what about the PVP realm issue? Will all characters become members of the opposite faction or will we need to transfer/delete them to use the service for one?

Also an important question.

One more thing comes into my mind:
What you will do with the upcoming massive ud / human rerollers?

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Yara

< Eternal Corpse Counc… >

Mazrigos

972. Re: Faction-Change Service in the Works 01/07/2009 10:33:30 PDT

Q u o t e:

On a basic level, what you pay for is the new set of racials for your old character. And yes, sure you buy your way into the faction; I couldn't care less and that has absolutely no relevance to this point whatsoever. The point is that you pay real-life money to acquire a set of better racials for your character. It's a very simple logic.

I get your point but I don't see it like that.
First of all both factions have their better and worse racials, in my opinion its pretty balanced. And if I would consider changing faction the racials wouldn't even be on my list for considering.

And if the difference in racials would have been so huge that you can speak of 'better racials' people would have rerolled for it ages ago.

This is just my view on it and I see this change as an easy reroll option without having to spend time on levelling the same character again but then as another faction.

Angellus level 80 ud Rogue
Yara level 80 ud Priest
José lvl 80 ud Mage
Necracy lvl 74 Belf DK
Angelcakes level 70 Belf Paladin

Vaestus

< Blood Riders >

Defias Brotherhood

973. Re: Faction-Change Service in the Works 01/07/2009 10:35:42 PDT

Q u o t e:

Also an important question.

One more thing comes into my mind:
What you will do with the upcoming massive ud / human rerollers?

The same thing they did with the massive amount of BE and DK rollers... absolutely nothing.

Ysondre

< Heroic Outcasts >

Terenas

974. Re: Faction-Change Service in the Works 01/07/2009 10:37:20 PDT

lmao its great, and all you whiners, if you dont like it, DONT USE IT FOOLS. jesus, call blizz retards, people whining are the retards not realising its not compulsory, no1 is forcing YOU to do it, how does someone else doing it affect you? it doesnt. so stfu and find something thats a real problem to cry over.
personally i look forward to moving my horde DK over to alliance side to be with my mains guild.

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Alqam

Aerie Peak

975. Re: 01/07 Faction-Change Service in the Works 01/07/2009 10:56:40 PDT

Thank you but you did all this, why did not you change the service of people who want to race there is only a change of race and not Faction-Change only

example I want to change the race
Dwarf >>>>> Human

I hope to put this service to race with the only wish you every success ...

thank you.

Manchester!!

Lotharemas

< Adventurers of the H… >

Earthen Ring

976. Re: Faction-Change Service in the Works 01/07/2009 11:03:14 PDT

Q u o t e:
Q. Will we be able to switch between the races on our own faction?
A.. No. Players will only be able to switch to a race of the opposite faction.

zzZ, this was the only thing i was hoping for with this.

Q u o t e:
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Jedz

< Insomniac >

Silvermoon

977. Re: Faction-Change Service in the Works 01/07/2009 11:04:27 PDT

Well however, theres one things this kinda %%**s is Horde vs alliance, i can now go on the forums looking for any horde or alliance guild, i dont need to look at the faction anymore, therefor horde vs alliance doesn't exist anymore, the intension was to help ppl who was too lazy to lvl on another server but every1 like myself is just gonna move to Undead i guess.

Aslea

< The Serpents Fang >

Mal'Ganis

978. Re: Faction-Change Service in the Works 01/07/2009 11:25:55 PDT

In the process of changing faction, will I be able to change the gender of the character or would I have to make use of the character customization function afterwards?

More often than not I wish I could punch people through my monitor

Candace

< Isiaahs Angels >

Argent Dawn

979. Re: Faction-Change Service in the Works 01/07/2009 11:32:19 PDT

I don't understand why people think this is a bad idea...I can't see anything negative with it, its just you who are being too conservative!
I think its an idea off full of win! *cheer* and i was really happy when i heard about this!*hug blizzard*

Now i just want gnome priests, old pvp system back(but without you losing honour) and wow is perfect!

But one thing...why didn't you implant ingame race chance aswell?

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