What a groundbreaking addition to the UI. Sitting there as a gnome on the Warchief's throne in Grommash Hold, and after some /say bantering with some friendly trolls and taurens, you might just forget which 'side' you are on if you have been playing with people from the other side for a long time. Imagine to find yourself for example playing a gnome, just finished a raid with players from both sides, and are now cooling off in Orgrimmar. So the faction icons is there probably just to help you to remember which faction that character 'belongs to'. Also for to avoid teams with perfect mix of racials :| Lorewise it will probably be something like 'friendly team vs. world PVP, there will most likely be still 2 factions.

If factions are to be dissolved (seems most likely right now), then it will most likely done so lorewise, and for PVE and world content. IMO, obviously this seems like more of an technical fix to a gameplay issue, mainly PVP. Comment by Furydeath on T18:45:42-05:00įinally, i can't tell if my toon is Alliance or Horde after 15 years. Not an exciting or particularly wanted thing, for me personally. Yeah, my perception is extremely biased on this but I can't help but see this as another step in preparation for the destruction of the faction system as we know it. That way if a human was Horde, or an Orc Alliance, you wouldn't be able to identify faction by race anymore, but the icons would do it. Otherwise there’d be no point in this.Īctually, if they are going to let the races choose their faction, this would be especially useful. I suppose they won’t be dissolving the factions then.

Eso how to hide ui