Reddit’s New Alliance Guild on Illidan is Skyrocketing

by JR Cook - 10 years ago     show comments

Illidan is a notorious PVP server known for it’s imbalanced factions. The horde completely dominate, so much so that  it’s a staggering 1:32.6 ratio of alliance to horde.

Just four days ago, Reddit user void_moon created a topic that to some seemed insane. He wanted to create a guild on one of  the most poorly balanced servers in the wow community and fight back the horde. In his mission void moon described his dreams of fostering a real sense of community that in some of the larger servers is non existent. By being small, players might actually begin to feel big, and interacting within the world might be more rewarding for players because they can see familiar faces and enemies.

These new bloodthirsty mongrels would be the Masochists.

This last Thursday saw the level 0 guild with a healthy 50 players, and on Friday the guild’s population more-than quadrupled to a staggering 243. On peak hours, the now  level 25 guild saw a population of 70 active players. In order to understand the magnitude of this growth, you can look at a normal large-sized guild. Most large guilds’s active populations stay around 20.

Can this be a new era for Illidan? Can this be a new era in the World of Warcraft? Might faction imbalance become a forgotten nightmare as people everywhere come together and follow the path of the Masochists?