One of the features of PvP servers was that it had a faction restriction so that if you already had an Alliance character on that server, you could only make Alliance characters and the same for the Horde. I think the idea behind this was to prevent players from spying on the other faction in terms of PvP activity.
Well this faction restriction for PvP servers has been removed, as announced by CM Eyonix. As you might recall, Blizzard already announced that they are working on a service that will allow players to switch their characters to the opposite faction for …read more

For all those people who love to do Battlegrounds while playing World of Warcraft, CM Zarhym has some good news to tell us all. This news concerns the latest battleground in the game (at least until patch 3.2) Strand of the Ancients. The “coin toss” at the start of every fight to determine who starts out on defense on who’s on offense will correctly be implemented in patch 3.2.
Blizzard has said that they really intended Strand of the Ancients to make sides random but what they did just caused some bugs so they fixed it at Alliance starting out on …read more