Faction-Change Service in the Works

oopomopoo — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:36:17 GMT

Very well said, Otaka.

Otaka — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:21:10 GMT

this is out of game service....the quest-line you are trying to ask for is ingame and how would people irl do a quest-chain aka job's and then earn a way to change their race? no no....out of ingame services are just these migration, faction-change, name change etc...because they are NOT practically realistic nor a good idea to be able to do ingame with just some lousy quest.

oopomopoo — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:39:57 GMT

As i said before alyvar, you made the decision to be alliance/horde. You simply cannot theoretically go to the opposite allegience after killer 236546543 of thier members. Blizzard is giving you the chance of switching and making peace with the opposite leader.... At a price of course.

alyvar — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:01:54 GMT

I dunno, this kind of bothers me. Why can't they just make it an in-game mechanic where a player of one faction can earn rep or do some (very challenging or time-consuming, but doable/soloable) quest-line that enables them to switch factions? Doing it this way just feels a little wrong somehow.

oopomopoo — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:41:29 GMT

Soon (tm.)

In other words, no we do not. Chances are it will be about 4-5 months.

ogaoga123 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:32:16 GMT

Umm can someone tell me about what month or year this is coming out in{and dont say soon}

Manjiku — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:36:11 GMT

I agree with angel4life93x. I've talked about this with some friends and the way I see it and the way I believe it will just go down is that whatever class/race you currently are with the Horde or Alliance, you can convert said character to the other faction.

For example, if you have a level 80 Tauren Druid, you will only be able to turn them into a level 80 Night Elf Druid as the Night Elves are the only race in the Alliance that can be a Druid.

Humans can be just about everything under the sun where as a Blood Elf cannot be a warrior. So the swap from faction to faction will carry the limitations by class and race. If one race cannot be a warrior, that class will not be available to switch to.

I'm also sure that reputation will play a flip factor as well. If you go from Horde to Alliance and you're exalted with Orgrimmar, you will lose your Org rep and become Exalted with Stormwind and so on, and so forth.

angel4life93x — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:24:45 GMT

i doubt you'll be able to switch from human pally to tauren druid it'll probably be like human pally to blood elf pally, im just sayin.

Mundrope — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:55:21 GMT

WoW!!!! ... this is fantastic news ... i have two ally characters that i no longer play one a level 70 the other an 80, i made a DK on the realease of WoTLK and really enjoy playing on horde. The fact i will be able to change my chars to horde is mind blowing =P ... Hmmm i wonder what the equivalent of a gnome will be =\ ... im guessing a troll maybe. Happy Days xD

oopomopoo — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:39:32 GMT

Hmm, air.. would you rather not have this option at all?

You made a decision to roll what you did. Blizzard is giving you the chance (Paying of course) to remake that decision without the cost of leveling another character to 80 and getting all that gear again.

Complain all you want, but more options is exactly what some people need. I know i have personally used the name/gender chang to change my male draenei to a female draenei. She is a paladin, and her name is Holyrack. :p

airddragon — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:18:37 GMT

Bah... 2 years to late on the ability Blizzard. Go tell Activision to stop trying to come up with ways to nickel and dime an already pay per month MMO.

Audie — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:32:37 GMT

I would just like to see race change added. I could care less about faction change, but if they allow this then I'm hoping they keep race in mind.

jforrestna — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:06:47 GMT

Well, I think the change is a good idea but the wrong way to go about it... My thoughts: If you leveled a character to a specific level, lets say 30 you can switch factions, not Races. So to be an evil Human who works with the horde would be cool. The number of times you can switch per character is once a year, or maybe once in the life of that character. Reputation wise, you will lose all rep with any alliance and at level 30 you wouldnt be high enough to gain rep with any outland/northrend factions.

Caramirdan — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:21:16 GMT

I wonder how will this affect realm Alliance-to-Horde ratios. I'm hoping that they'll limit the changes to balance out close to 1:1 instead of the silly ratios we have now.

obsidianlzrd — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:25:49 GMT

In my opinion, this should just be a one time only thing, or maybe once a year. You can already change enough stuff about yourself, seriously, if this was a one time only, people could change with their friends with having nice characters. I don't know how they would work on the reps either, obviously, people want to keep their exalted reps and such. They would probably have to reset them to 0, boy, wouldn't that be horrible?