Horde & Alliance interaction :: World of Warcraft

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#1 Aug 29 2004 at 4:03 AM Rating: Good

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Okay. So Horde and Alliance players cannot party with eachother, right?

Also, from this thread, I found the following:

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The devs said there is plenty of content in your faction's zone to keep you happy and peaceful without fighting fellow players.

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As has already been pointed out, this change (Being flagged for PvP while in enemy terrority) has zero impact on PvE players, since they will have no reason to be in enemy cities anyways.

So basically, unless we're killing eachother, there's no interaction between horde and alliance?

I mean, I'm all for faction competition, but I don't want my uber-l337 night elf to spend ALL of his time around boring humans, smelly dwarves, and lawn gnomes. ;)

Will I have to be satisfied with a friendly /wave to horde players as we pass eachother in a neutral zone?

Edited, Sun Aug 29 05:04:07 2004 by trickybeck

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#2 Aug 29 2004 at 5:01 AM Rating: Decent

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Oh how I looked and looked and looked some more for good news, Trickybeck, but unfortunately it seems the wave in a netural zone will be all you'll get currently. Seems like the enemy territory is not the only thing in the way of faction interaction. Language is another factor that you need to be concern about. Each faction has its own language so don't expect a tauren talking to a night elf anytime soon until you learn the language (which is possible in this game.)

Anything can happen come retail but don't expect cross faction partying anytime soon. Look in the bright side, any can happen in a patch and/or an expansion pack so lets see if you''ll get lucky. Not sure if it'll happen but I don't want to rain on anybody's day.

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#3 Aug 29 2004 at 11:20 PM Rating: Good

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Hey Tricky, how are ya?

Getting tired of FFXI too?

That part about "they will have no reason to be in enemy cities anyways." kind of bothers me.

What if I, with my Night Elf Hunter (the race and class that looks best to me right now) wants to go visit the homes of the Orcs or Taurens or even the Undead for whatever reason: a quest, get a tradeskill recipe, learn to ride a Wolf?

I won't be able to do that?

I like the language thing, that makes it very interesting, but I don't like that I won't be able to go everywhere in the game.

Just exploring is a reason to be in enemy cities anyways.

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#4 Aug 30 2004 at 5:08 AM Rating: Decent

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What if I, with my Night Elf Hunter (the race and class that looks best to me right now) wants to go visit the homes of the Orcs or Taurens or even the Undead for whatever reason: a quest, get a tradeskill recipe, learn to ride a Wolf?

I won't be able to do that?

No. And unless you're the type that likes to explore every inch of the map, there's no reason to.

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#5 Aug 30 2004 at 11:37 AM Rating: Decent

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Im not in the beta, but whenever i do a search for wuest items, sum of th eones i want r in the horde areas, and if im unable to get those, i realy hope that blizzard will rethink this

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#6 Aug 30 2004 at 11:57 AM Rating: Decent

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Currently, on the PvE server;
you can't speak the same languages, Horde vs Alliance. Except undead which can speak both.

You can't cross group, you can't cross trade and you can't buff them (which ever side they are)

But there is some interaction. As an Alliance player on the PvE server I frequently have quests which require travelling into or through Horde controlled regions. Also, many regions have cities or outposts of Each group, close together. Conflicts do happen. Many quests even require shared resources, by this I mean both Horde and Alliance need the same things, so you end up competing for ... camps/NPC/item drops.

Arathi Highlands is a faire example (outside Hilsbrad). Refuge Point (Alliance) and Hammerfall (Horde) are merely a hillside apart. Players from either side, freguently visit the others community and kill NPCs. Once you attack the NPC, you are flagged PvP and players jump in and havoc rules!!

/shout may be universal.
/emotes appear to be universal
but /tells /say are language specific

Lenari, PvE Beta WoW

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#7 Aug 30 2004 at 12:03 PM Rating: Good

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Azuarc wrote:

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What if I, with my Night Elf Hunter (the race and class that looks best to me right now) wants to go visit the homes of the Orcs or Taurens or even the Undead for whatever reason: a quest, get a tradeskill recipe, learn to ride a Wolf?

I won't be able to do that?

No. And unless you're the type that likes to explore every inch of the map, there's no reason to.

Yes, i'm the type that likes to explore every inch.

I also like doing every quest

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#8 Aug 30 2004 at 2:26 PM Rating: Decent

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You'll just have to create a horde character to see the horde side of things then, or brave the possibilities of being PK-ed continuously for being an enemy spy in their city.

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