Free Faction Change
- Thread starter Aradiel
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Crystalpall
the F2P PvEr
Well if you haven't tested this yet don't give us hope :/
Hashbrowns
Legend
Horde only gear pulled from F2PDev:
Tranquillien Champion's Cloak
Unbountied Cloak
Lushwater Cloak
Je'neu's Robes
Inferno Robe
Azure Scale Vest
Vest of Fortune
Conspirator's Slipper
Merger Boots
Slippers of the Unturned Loyalties
Boots of the Hero
Seal of Sylvanas
Band of Foul Strength
Garrosh's Pardon
Stillwater's Signet
Citizen Wilkes' Ring
Gorka's Band
Invoker's Signet
Slayer's Band
Red Riding Gloves
Jutebraid Gloves
Gloves of the Hero
Wild Rider's Gloves
Blackfathom Leggings
Dividend Leggings
Kalecgos' Gift
Scales of Aku'mai
Spaulders of the Hero
Deathstalker Pauldrons
Belt of the Hero
Joanna's Sash
Acquisition Bracers
Uninsured Bracers
Scrupleless Bracers
Bracers of the Most Trusted
Impish Blade
Stillwater's Dagger
Wingblade
Durak's Wand
Suppressor's Wand
Shield of Talrendis Point
Bow of Ire
Bow of the Great Hunter
Farstrider's Longbow
Bling Cane
Staff of the Arcane Path
Staff of the Left Hand Path
Staff of the Sun
Accursed Mace
Lot's of good stuff in there, even just for the t-mog. Stillwater's ring is BiS for Mage caster DPS. Curious if you can get mail crit pants reward from BFD and then repeat quest as alliance for shield. Would make for an insane prot warrior FC.
Tranquillien Champion's Cloak
Unbountied Cloak
Lushwater Cloak
Je'neu's Robes
Inferno Robe
Azure Scale Vest
Vest of Fortune
Conspirator's Slipper
Merger Boots
Slippers of the Unturned Loyalties
Boots of the Hero
Seal of Sylvanas
Band of Foul Strength
Garrosh's Pardon
Stillwater's Signet
Citizen Wilkes' Ring
Gorka's Band
Invoker's Signet
Slayer's Band
Red Riding Gloves
Jutebraid Gloves
Gloves of the Hero
Wild Rider's Gloves
Blackfathom Leggings
Dividend Leggings
Kalecgos' Gift
Scales of Aku'mai
Spaulders of the Hero
Deathstalker Pauldrons
Belt of the Hero
Joanna's Sash
Acquisition Bracers
Uninsured Bracers
Scrupleless Bracers
Bracers of the Most Trusted
Impish Blade
Stillwater's Dagger
Wingblade
Durak's Wand
Suppressor's Wand
Shield of Talrendis Point
Bow of Ire
Bow of the Great Hunter
Farstrider's Longbow
Bling Cane
Staff of the Arcane Path
Staff of the Left Hand Path
Staff of the Sun
Accursed Mace
Lot's of good stuff in there, even just for the t-mog. Stillwater's ring is BiS for Mage caster DPS. Curious if you can get mail crit pants reward from BFD and then repeat quest as alliance for shield. Would make for an insane prot warrior FC.
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Allybeboba
Legend
There a few quests you can do on both factions to get double rewards. This is one. You can also get double Argas rings as well.
Sweetsidney...
Palonabanana
Legend
I can't see the "Characters & Guild Services" option on my battle net wow account management page. Can someone with a paid account post an url?
Goesid
Twink Info Legend
For example SFK quest can be done on both factions and get 2 different rewards while the WC quest can only be done on one side.
Aradiel
Legend
Some of those items listed are GF. For now, it's not on EU, that I know of, just one realm on US. I made the thread, without having tested, because I need to know when it is working, and I don't have paid game time to test that. I'll need someone's help that does have game time to confirm when it is active. It would be a different matter if there was a "free faction change" link or something similar as there is with free realm transfers.
For the realm transfers, you just go to URL: us.battle.net/account/management/wow/services/character-services.html?l=WOW1&r=US&s=FCM and you can navigate from there. There's no equivalent free faction change link, so I tried URL us.battle.net/account/management/wow/services/pfc-tos.html?l=WOW1&r=US&sr=XXXX&c=YYYY with X being the realm id, which is 1419 for Barth, and Y being the character id, which is different for each character, obviously, but it just dumped me back to the summary screen.
For the realm transfers, you just go to URL: us.battle.net/account/management/wow/services/character-services.html?l=WOW1&r=US&s=FCM and you can navigate from there. There's no equivalent free faction change link, so I tried URL us.battle.net/account/management/wow/services/pfc-tos.html?l=WOW1&r=US&sr=XXXX&c=YYYY with X being the realm id, which is 1419 for Barth, and Y being the character id, which is different for each character, obviously, but it just dumped me back to the summary screen.
Aradiel
Legend
Edited. It was May 27 originally. They probably had some issues bringing it in, causing the delay. So it is still possible for it to work, I'll test again then.
Imnotabelf
Legend
Thanks for posting this! Would be very cool if it worked (might have to do it myself).
Aradiel
Legend
Seeing as free realm transfers do work, as long as you're not an idiot, this could work too.
~17hrs until it goes active.
Rollop
Legend
Xenophon
Legend
While this is only for one realm and in one direction, the official post suggests that this may happen on other realms and go Alliance to Horde. However, if the test doesn't work as intended, it may not be offered again.
Perhaps we should take up the offer so Blizzard keeps this going on other realms?
If you look at the A/H ratio using something like US Realm Pop, there are other realms the are more imbalanced. Of course they are looking a queue times though it would seem that BG queue times and faction ratio are linked quite strongly (unless world PvP if preferred).
Not that any of you would care, but last year my Alliance guild moved FROM Barthilas to another realm to avoid the near-constant ganking. Might try it just to bring back those wonderful memories.
Perhaps we should take up the offer so Blizzard keeps this going on other realms?
If you look at the A/H ratio using something like US Realm Pop, there are other realms the are more imbalanced. Of course they are looking a queue times though it would seem that BG queue times and faction ratio are linked quite strongly (unless world PvP if preferred).
Not that any of you would care, but last year my Alliance guild moved FROM Barthilas to another realm to avoid the near-constant ganking. Might try it just to bring back those wonderful memories.
Allybeboba
Legend
Hopefully the following will answer many questions concerning the transfers.
"It looks like Blizzard is ready to try something new to address long battleground queues, starting with a test on US-Barthilas.
As it stands, Barthilas has roughly 18.6k players with a Level 90 character on the realm. Around 14.7k of those characters are Horde and 3.9k are Alliance, resulting in a population that is 21% Alliance and 79% Horde.
Looking at characters rather than players, there are ~41.7k Level 90 characters on Barthilas now, with 34.3k Horde and 7.4k Alliance, for a 17.8% Alliance and 82.2% Horde population."
Just to give a comparison the realm population of other servers are Aerie Peak 85k, Bleeding Hollow -186k, Cenarius-93k, Tichondrius -299k. As you can see, it(Barthilas) is a low population server that is very imbalanced.
And some tweets from Holinka:
Something to keep in mind about free faction transfers: The primary objective is to balance faction populations at the region level. (holinka)
Nice little attempt to give players corrective abilities to balance their own realms. Good luck on Mal'Ganis...
Again, the intention isn't to correct realm imbalances, but region imbalance. It's unlikely Tichondrius would become 50/50. (holinka)
Do you think starting with smaller realms to balance the regional overflow (not wanting ques) would work?
We're starting with one server to ensure we can be responsive if anything unexpected occurs. (holinka)
What if you don't get good results? Will you try another server? And thank you for listening to us
if things go well we will expand to other realms and regions. (holinka)
My question was if they don't go as expected on that one server, will you still try another?
We started with one server to evaluate the process not player response. If the process works properly we will expand it. (holinka)
what is the incentive though? why would anyone at this time choose to go to the side that lower pop, and lesser racial abilities?
We're trying to remove barriers first. People faction transfer all the time. They may not need added incentive. (holinka)
So horde->alliance is probably all we are going to see initially?
Yes (holinka)
but what about when all the alliance go horde like they've slowly been doing since faction change was implemented
We aren't offering alliance to horde transfers for free. (holinka)
how is that helping to solve the alliance dominance on my server then? Horde is dead on my server ..
it isn't meant to fix that problem (holinka)
I wonder why they started with Barth? are we the guinea pig server? but I am excited. Ashran!!
It was a good size and had a horde/alliance ratio we thought might attract faction changes. (holinka)
/cheers
Sweetsidney...
"It looks like Blizzard is ready to try something new to address long battleground queues, starting with a test on US-Barthilas.
As it stands, Barthilas has roughly 18.6k players with a Level 90 character on the realm. Around 14.7k of those characters are Horde and 3.9k are Alliance, resulting in a population that is 21% Alliance and 79% Horde.
Looking at characters rather than players, there are ~41.7k Level 90 characters on Barthilas now, with 34.3k Horde and 7.4k Alliance, for a 17.8% Alliance and 82.2% Horde population."
Just to give a comparison the realm population of other servers are Aerie Peak 85k, Bleeding Hollow -186k, Cenarius-93k, Tichondrius -299k. As you can see, it(Barthilas) is a low population server that is very imbalanced.
And some tweets from Holinka:
Something to keep in mind about free faction transfers: The primary objective is to balance faction populations at the region level. (holinka)
Nice little attempt to give players corrective abilities to balance their own realms. Good luck on Mal'Ganis...
Again, the intention isn't to correct realm imbalances, but region imbalance. It's unlikely Tichondrius would become 50/50. (holinka)
Do you think starting with smaller realms to balance the regional overflow (not wanting ques) would work?
We're starting with one server to ensure we can be responsive if anything unexpected occurs. (holinka)
What if you don't get good results? Will you try another server? And thank you for listening to us
if things go well we will expand to other realms and regions. (holinka)
My question was if they don't go as expected on that one server, will you still try another?
We started with one server to evaluate the process not player response. If the process works properly we will expand it. (holinka)
what is the incentive though? why would anyone at this time choose to go to the side that lower pop, and lesser racial abilities?
We're trying to remove barriers first. People faction transfer all the time. They may not need added incentive. (holinka)
So horde->alliance is probably all we are going to see initially?
Yes (holinka)
but what about when all the alliance go horde like they've slowly been doing since faction change was implemented
We aren't offering alliance to horde transfers for free. (holinka)
how is that helping to solve the alliance dominance on my server then? Horde is dead on my server ..
it isn't meant to fix that problem (holinka)
I wonder why they started with Barth? are we the guinea pig server? but I am excited. Ashran!!
It was a good size and had a horde/alliance ratio we thought might attract faction changes. (holinka)
/cheers
Sweetsidney...
Srs
Legend
Barthilas is oceanic right? I think that would technically make it a New Guinea pig server. Maybe they are thinking that this is like nuclear testing and they are doing it way out in the ocean for safety.
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