Right now, if you’re playing World of Warcraft: Forever in North America and want to make a Horde character on the PvP realm, you can’t.

Instead, you get all the way through character creation only to be met with a message reading, “This faction is currently unavailable on this ruleset due to population imbalance.” This happens on both the regular PvP realm and the RP PvP realm (I tested it).

You can still play a Horde character on a normal or RP Realm. And you can still join one of the two PvP realms; you just have to roll a human, night elf, gnome, dwarf, or Alliance skyborne.

What’s happened is that there are far too many Horde characters on the PvP realms right now in North America, while the same problem is happening in reverse on the EU side where there are too many Alliance. There are so many of the dominant faction that players of the lesser-played group have been up in arms in community spaces all week, complaining that the imbalance is making the game nigh-unplayable for them. They keep getting overwhelmed by groups of the enemy faction and killed while questing.

Is this what my pvp realm experience is going to be like?
byu/Wawaritas inclassicwow

Way things are going I expect a mass alliance PVP exodus in 2-3 days
byu/Backslicer inclassicwow

Alliance players are also complaining that this problem is dovetailing with a different recent problem (low experience point gain from dungeons) to make it so it’s impossible to level up anywhere: dungeons are deeply inefficient, but out in the world they just get killed again and again:

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