Casual Huntering

I know that most people on in the “WoWosphere” are much better at getting at information quickly, quicker than me anyway. At any rate I came across this recently. The guys at blizz are working on making it so you can change sides. That’s right. You can stick to Thrall or that one Stormwind king and trade sides. Well, you will at some point in time in the near future. So, blizzard announced that they plan on making it possible for a player to change their faction .

At first I thought it was going to wreak havoc on the war mentality of Azeroth. Then I thought, that there would be a traitor thing going on. I just could picture a Orc chilling in Iron Forge who wrote off the Horde. Could we as an alliance keep ourselves from killing him? What confusion would pursue. It would be awesome. But alas, it won’t be like that, instead you character will magically turn into a “roughly equivalent character”. So, I assume if you are going to change your pally over that no matter what you’ll be a chicken rider or if you are a druid you get to become a cow. Hm…
So, it looks like there are a lot of kinks to work out for this. I’m not going to participate. I’m assuming that it’ll cost you money like it would if you want to change the gender of your toon. However, as my brother pointed out last night, this would be awesome to reconnect with friends that happen to choose the other faction. We have several real life friends that are playing horde on our server. Perhaps we’ll be able to talk them into joining the alliance.
So, I assume that’ll mean that reputation will change to equivalent reps? Does that mean you can complete twice as many quests for the lore achievements? For that matter, does that mean you could complete all alliance specific achievements then make a switch over? Ha! You could switch over and plague a hated guild that you got booted from or something.
And how can you justify this for RPers? That’s confusing, but I’m sure someone out there will come up with a good story involving some kind of accident with a gnomish invention or a transfiguration gone bad or something. I don’t know. But it’ll be interesting at any rate.
Would you be willing to pay money to switch factions? I have too many friends and family on the alliance side on my main server to want to switch. But it’s nice to have options.

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