Further on balancing factions
Dear Hades community,
It’s been no secret to any follower of our project that we’ve suffered from a major faction imbalance. As you know, faction balance is crucial to the success of any WoW project. Without it, PvP will suffer, auction house prices will inflate, and ultimately one side will simply completely dominate the other. We understand the importance of this issue, we have merged auction houses, and even offered free faction transfers from Horde to Alliance. These faction transfers are still available – just contact a GM via an ingame ticket. But despite all of our efforts, this simply has not been enough. This faction imbalance still remains a major issue. Because of this, we’re going to do something crazy.
Effective immediately after Monday’s server restart, we will enable double experience rates again, but for Alliance only. This function will be active for an indefinite period of time, until we feel that the faction imbalance has been resolved. The double experience will be enabled by default for all Alliance characters under level 80; it will not work for higher level characters. However, if for whatever reason you wish to level at the regular rate, we have created a way to do that. Simply type “.mod xp 1” into chat and your experience gain will be normal again. This command must be run every time you log into your characters to switch back to the regular rate.
To reiterate, this double experience rate is only available to Alliance players. We wish to address the imbalance issue once and for all. We hope this is an effective solution and helps bolster the numbers of our boys and girls in blue. Enjoy!
Hades Team