{"id":4456,"date":"2015-06-25T08:56:11","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T14:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/?p=4456"},"modified":"2022-12-30T20:03:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T02:03:33","slug":"2-factions-combined-or-more-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/?p=4456","title":{"rendered":"2 Factions Combined, or More Created?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The queues for Alliance right now are bad, anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes for a random bg, to a solid hour for Ashran, sometimes up to 2 hours or so.\u00a0 I waited an hour and a half last night for it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway people are asking that we do random faction bgs to make it better.\u00a0 Alliance vs Alliance and such.\u00a0 They do that already for RBGs and arena.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t want to see that personally.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing Horde queues were terrible last expansion (15 mins usually!) and it was just one of those things.\u00a0 I play what I like, I don&#8217;t care about racials but not everyone feels that way.\u00a0 And I love faction vs faction, I adore faction RP with my &#8220;get out of my town you filthy orc&#8221; and whatnot.\u00a0\u00a0 The Hydra group is like that too.<\/p>\n<p>Someone in the bg forums suggested we should have more factions.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t see how that would help, wouldn&#8217;t there still be one dominant race and therefore faction?<\/p>\n<p>It makes me think back to Lineage 2, which technically had lore that set up wars between the races, but nothing was enforced and even had a ridiculous requirement that Dark Elves and Light Elves (who hate each other) had to do their dances and songs in a specific order or destroy their mana pools.\u00a0 That made no sense.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If each one WAS a separate faction (excluding Kamael and Etheria) how would that pan out? I was thinking about it now and again.\u00a0 This assumes the races couldn&#8217;t trade or party together AT ALL.\u00a0 I&#8217;m basing this off somewhat original class skills, prior to the healers getting all the same heals as well (pre Interlude, I believe).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dwarves<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cons:\u00a0 No healers, no ranged, no summoners, no tanks, no mages. Only melee though I guess technically they could use bows.<\/p>\n<p>Pros:\u00a0 The only crafters of high level armor, weapons, jewelry, and soul\/spiritshots. The only spoilers (scavengers) for extra materials and rare pieces.<\/p>\n<p>(Trust me when I say dwarves will scare the living daylights out of a healer or other clothie if your gear isn&#8217;t good. I did that on the L2 Azure servers, seeing a dwarf meant you were going to die. )<\/p>\n<p><strong>Humans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cons: No crafting, would be limited to armor upgrades past shop gear at B grade.<\/p>\n<p>Pros: The best healer, the only mass rez, the only pure buffer.\u00a0 Has two summoners, dagger, archer, nuker, and arguably the best tank.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dark Elves<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cons: No crafters, no mass rez, hybrid buffer, healer heals are part heal, part HoT. No greater battle heal.<\/p>\n<p>Pros: Healer is basically jack of all trades with Empower and Recharge for mages, Vampiric Rage and Focus for melee. Has archer, dagger class, one summoner, tank.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Light Elves<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cons: No pure buffer, no crafters, least desirable buffs.<\/p>\n<p>Pros: The only personal and party recall, fastest healer, fastest archer, fastest mage,\u00a0 and dagger class, tank, summoner.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Orcs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cons: No single target buffer, no strong bfufs,\u00a0 DoT based nuker, no tank, no summoner, no crafter, no strong healer, no archer, no dagger. No crafter.<\/p>\n<p>Pros:\u00a0 The only healer who could restore CP.<\/p>\n<p>Um.\u00a0 I think orcs would be sunk.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If I had to pick, I would think humans would come out on top even with the gear situation.\u00a0 They would be in the best spot to kill raid bosses, and dwarves lacking a tank and a healer would be very limited, even if they managed to get the best gear.\u00a0 That&#8217;s my vote!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AmberDrakecirclet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4457\" src=\"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AmberDrakecirclet-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"AmberDrakecirclet\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AmberDrakecirclet-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AmberDrakecirclet-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AmberDrakecirclet.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The queues for Alliance right now are bad, anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes for a random bg, to a solid hour for Ashran, sometimes up to 2 hours or so.\u00a0 I waited an hour and a half last night for it. Anyway people are asking that we do random faction bgs to make it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lineage2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4456"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6366,"href":"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions\/6366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}