Fun Idea, Next Expansion: 3rd FactionFollow

Was bored and posted this on the Official Forums, thoughts?

Put your non-serious hats on for a sec, just playing around with an idea here...

So, let's say for the next Expansion a civil war-like situation breaks out for various reasons.

Old alliances dissolve, new ones are forged.

Alliance:
Humans: Seem to spearhead the "Allianceâ„¢" brand anyhow.
Dreanei: Thier good-natured temperament keeps them with the Alliance.
Gnomes: Just because.
Dwarfs: Make's sense.

"New" Horde (More of a neutral faction as far as morals go):
Orcs: Maybe Thrall assumes leadership again, and "cleans house" by kicking out the darker races of the Horde.
Tauren: After seeing how much Tauren's and Nelfs like hugging trees together, figured they should finally go steady.
Nelfs: That's right, I went there.
Worgen: Let's say that the Worgen give into thier curse just a little bit more and find themselves more akin to the more savage atmosphere.

Evil'er Faction:
Undead: Make's sense.
Belfs: Also somewhat "dark".
Trolls: Vol'jin hate's Hellscream anyhow, and Trolls by nature tend to be somewhat malicious.
Goblins: Lets just say their in it for the profits.

Now I know this creates alot of imbalances and holes, like Alliance won't have a Druid class (just let humans be druids and rename them PETA), how cross-faction communication would change (it's not like Worgens would suddenly forget how to talk to the old alliance) as well as some other things I cant recall.

But imagine how much $#!? this would stir up, imagine new BG's (or redesigned old ones) built for 3 warring factions.

There's lot's of play with this idea, let's say for instance that Orc's & Goblins swap factions. Maybe Hellscream gets the Orcs to drink more demon's blood and they get re-cursed. Goblins, being more neutral of morals, go with the neutral faction for maximum profits.

Ideas?

Win.

Those crazy ninja fans...

Would we get non-combat Wenches?

I don't know it all would work. But I'd like to leave the old factions behind on some of my characters. Something along the lines of:

You all are idiots. #$%& you, I'm joining the Earthen Ring.

Oh well. I can dream at least...

+1 for wolvar. Those little raccoons are killer.

I like the idea of a neutral faction, but it would be hard to move any of the existing races into it without messing up the balance completely.

A small note on the quoted part above: Night Elves and Orcs would never team up. The Night Elves are still pretty pissed about the entire Warsong incident. And I highly doubt the Worgen would want to team up with a race that participated in the invasion of Gilneas.

Also, your list is dividing the races up into Good, Neutral and Evil, which does not work. The Humans, at times, are just as "evil" as the Forsaken. Both races are somewhat xenophobic, albeit for different reasons. And there are too many potentially neutral races for it to ever be balanced.

Still, the idea is good.

The druid races would be a faction. Makes more sense. Thrall can still be the leader, with Garrosh in charge of the new Horde.



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It would disrupt pvp too much IMO. An idea though would be to make a race that lets you choose alliance while your still a newbie through a quest.

Gimme back my flag you grubby bald orc swine!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't really know about your three faction set up. I like the idea, but the implementation just doesn't work for me. Vol'jin may hate Hellscream, but that doesn't make them evil. If anything his keeping the peace even though he wants to kill Hellscream should be evidence of that. Night elves would never have anything to do with the Orcs just because Orcs are all about the tree cutting. And the alignments are all off. I don't see Humans as good, or the goblins as evil.

Maybe a better idea would be to leave behind the silly notion that just because everyone is of the same race that makes them all be of the same opinion. If you look at any of the evil factions they are made up of all the races. They all decided to go rogue and hang out under another flag. Perhaps we as players should be given the right to chose race..AND faction. of course that would double the blood elf population...and I really wish they never added that race....too many people play it.

What? The Druids are a sub-culture of the Night Elven, Troll, Worgen and Tauren races. It's not like all Trolls, Elves, Tauren or Worgen share the Druid opinion on neutrality and balance in the world.

It would be like putting Orcs and Humans in one faction because both can train Warriors and then making Sylvanas their leader. It wouldn't make sense.

Or maybe I'm just too sober to see the connection.

I REALLY don't like the matchups here for the proposed three factions. You've got races that just don't belong together.
Human, Dwarf, Gnome, Draenei.
Orc, Forsaken, Blood Elf, Goblin.
Night Elf, Tauren, Troll, Worgen.

If we're splitting into threes, it's about the only possibility. One could MAYBE swap Worgen with Draenei.

Fact of the matter is, Blood Elves will not work with humans, and if the Whored were to split, I doubt they'd work with Trolls. Dwarves and Gnomes will always be together, as will the Belves and the Forsaken. Draenei will not work with Orcs, considering the Genocide. Worgen have a blood oath with the Night Elves, much as the Goblins have sold themselves to the Orcs.