WoW finally lets Alliance and Horde play together

There have been a number of changes to Blizzard’s MMORPG World of Warcraft since its release in 2004. However, what has remained relatively untouched over the years is the fairly strict separation of the two factions, Alliance and Horde. To this day, players from opposite factions cannot understand exactly what the other person is writing in the chat. Although there were always a few interesting mechanics here that allowed Alliance and Horde players to communicate with each other, such as the curse of the languages ​​of the warlocks, or the demon form of demon hunters, both of which allow you to speak in demonic for a short time, but the Separation of the two factions seemed untouchable.

Patch 9.2.5 should probably fix the faction imbalance

For the PvP of the game, however, it has been possible to play with the opposing faction for a long time. For this you were transformed into a race of the other faction as a kind of mercenary, and then you could happily beat up your own countrymen there. This mechanic was brought into play primarily for faction balancing, as the balance between the two factions has shifted more and more towards Horde in recent years.

Not only is the Horde clearly the cooler faction, most of the top guilds and players, both in PvE and PvP, are on the Horde side, as they often have the more interesting racial abilities. These are now not as strong as they once were, but the snowball effect has seen more and more players switch to the Horde over the years, making it difficult for many Alliance players today to find a reasonable raid group or tribe for them Find battlefields and arenas.

Probably for a similar reason that caused the former mercenary system, players become June 1, 2022if patch 9.2.5 for World of Warcraft (buy now ): Shadowlands will be able to compete with players from the opposite faction in the various PvE and PvP content with almost no restrictions. Blizzard published meanwhile two blog posts too exactly this topic. Broadly speaking, with the new patch, Alliance and Horde players will be able to tackle dungeons, raids, and various PvP content together. To do this, users can either invite themselves to a group using their BattleTag ID, or use the game’s dungeon browser to find groups for dungeons, raids, ranked arenas and battlegrounds, and Torghast. Here, however, the group leader can limit the search to characters of the same faction if they wish.

Guilds and random player activities like heroic dungeons will remain open to only one faction. There is also a short list of classic instances that cross-faction groups cannot enter due to faction-specific content. These include Icecrown Citadel and Trial of the Crusader.