Factions are an arbitrary line drawn by Blizzard...but you don't have to "stay" on your side. And you definitely don't have to pretend that you don't have friends in the other faction.
I've only really spent much time in WoW on Zuluhed, so my Warcraft experience is on a small server. I get the feeling that on larger servers there's more of a divide between horde and alliance. But it can't really be that way on Zulu...when you log in and 90% of folks you see every day are all "enemy" instead of your faction, you stop seeing that dividing line as clearly.
And on small servers, like it or not, the gossip crosses faction lines. Whether it's via Vent, through instant messages or texting, through postings on forums, or via a second account where someone has a character of the other faction, info crosses that arbitrary barrier created by Blizzard. Because we want to know about the people we wave to and /dance with every day; it's human nature.
Should I pretend that I don't have friends on the other side? It'd make my guild leader happy if I didn't. Would make certain other folks both Horde-side and Alliance-side very happy, since they see that dividing line as though it's a brick wall and I'm shaking up their world view by crossing it. But I do have friends, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise.
Thanks to my having friends on the other side -- and being open about it -- I've found myself dancing with Blood Elves in Tristfal Glades, blowing kisses to Tauren in Darkshore, and flirting my heart out with Orcs and Trolls in Hellfire and Nagrand. All those folks who say "red is dead" will never have those experiences, and that's sad.
Monday, October 20, 2008
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lol...I think that's awesome, actually :) On Deathwing, there's *some* crossing. Recently, I came across a Human Pally in Nagrand on the wrong side of Bach'lor and his gaggle of floozies. Ran up, dropped some CC on the mobs to pull, let me raptor chomp on em. Then helped the AllyPally. /cheer when done. /salute and I was off. It wasn't five minutes when two Alliance - Lock and War - from the same guild swooped in on me. Me being a Hunter was d-d-dead dead to rights. DoTs and melee? Ouch. Instead, they /saluted, /hug on my raptor and flew off. I see them every now and then, they wave, I wave. In Shatt or not. Red is not always dead. :)
Hi I'm Miiu from the silver hand server, theres really not much cross-faction anything on our server although now and then theres a few out in grom'gol killing things that don't mind having a rogue come up and lend a few stuns and back stabs to soften the mobs. if zulu became an option to transfer from I'd probably be there, sounds fun :3
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