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No Inter-faction Race Switching

Angelo Fernandez — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:48:56 +0000

One of the biggest announcements in all WoW history was made this week concerning a paid service to be able to switch your WoW character’s faction. Once this is made available, Horde players will be able to switch to the Alliance and vice-versa. Players will not keep their race in the faction switch as some people were thinking. instead you will have to switch a race in the opposing faction that carries your class. Therefore you’ll never see a Human Paladin turn into a Tauren Paladin.

faction switching

According to CM Nethaera, while cross faction transfers are going to be allowed, inter-faction race switching will not be allowed. This is a bit shocking for me since logically switching races within your faction is a smaller step than crossing over to the other faction. I remember reading their justification (can’t seem to find it anymore) went something like this. Making a mistake on faction choice is a more forgivable mistake than a mistake on racial choice.

It’s definitely sad that we won’t be able to switch races between our faction. I know several people who would have wanted to change races. Even I was thinking of changing my Blood Elf warlock to an Orc. Who knows though? If they’re allowing faction switching already, it just might take a little time before they give in to inter-faction race switching.

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Paid Faction Transfers in the Future

Angelo Fernandez — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:52:38 +0000

Blizzard stunned the World of Warcraft community by dropping a bombshell on us all. It’s one of those announcements that would make sense if it were April Fools but sadly it’s not. Blizzard announced that they’re working on a service that will allow players to switch factions. this means that for a fee, players will be able to go from Alliance to Horde or Horde to Alliance. This is so shocking since this was one of the things Blizzard has repeatedly said in the past that they wouldn’t allow.

faction switching

According to CM Nethaera, this service is going to be made available because of several requests by the players mostly because they have characters that are on opposite factions from their friends. I’m curious how they will be able to reconcile all the factors that go with a faction transfer. How are they going to deal with reputation levels for example? Let’s say you’re a Human priest who’s exalted with Stormwind and Ironforge, how will that translate when you become an Blood Elf priest?

Another thing I want to touch on is this. Providing a faction transfer service should mean that you can choose what race you want to become in the opposite faction (unless of course you’re a druid or a horde shaman who wants to go to the Alliance or an Alliance paladin who wants to go to the Horde). It would really suck if you get assigned a race instead of choosing one yourself. That would lead to more problems. So assuming that you can choose your race when you switch factions and since we already have a service that can switch your character’s gender, wouldn’t it only be logical that this service should extend to switching races within your faction? Race switching within your faction is a smaller leap than a faction switch. If such is the case, then I know that a lot of people who would like to avail of the service because they’re tired of being a certain race.

What do you think will happen, more Alliance switching to Horde or more Horde switching to Alliance?

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Noblegarden To Be Delayed This Year

Angelo Fernandez — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:32:48 +0000

I’m really happy that Noblegarden is getting much more attention this year than in the past. I was really excited when Blizzard announced that they were extending the event to a whole week instead of just a day. I never used to catch Noblegarden before due to the timing and the shortness of duration so this is really nice.

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For those scouting the WoW calendar, you might have noticed that Noblegarden was removed from its schedule of April 12. CM Nethaera announced that it’s merely being delayed a bit and not being removed from the game. This delay is a bit telling though of how things are going. This year’s Noblegarden will have new things to look forward to and I guess that’s why they extended the event to a whole week. These changes need to patch to be released because of the size of the new art and such. Right now the new date for Noblegarden is still unknown but this should give us a clue on when patch 3.1 is coming out. So all you guys out there predicting the release of patch 3.1, you have another clue!

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