Alliance or Horde

Let me try to clear up any “grass is greener” illusion you have, 'cos it will not serve you well.

You tried one PuG raid? One? And it failed? There’s a Preach video where he’s anonymous on a fresh account, trying to raid with a PuG. It didn’t go well - and of course as a world-class player, he would have been a major asset to the raid. Were you a major asset to the raid?

PuGs can be, and mostly are, pretty bad. For BOTH factions! Standard advice is to get a guild or community.

While Horde are more active, and therefore it’s easier to get groups, Horde is not a magic bullet for solving your progress ambitions. People can and do make great progress on both factions.

By all means, make a Horde on Draenor or Tarren Mill, where the action is, if you want to. Levelling has been so nerfed that levelling is not a thing any more.

But as always the keys to success in progress are:

  1. Git a group and
  2. Git gud

not necessarily in that order.

When it comes to gitting gud, Teh Interwebz are full of information. Finding a group that is suitable for you, OTOH, is the hardest thing in WoW. You need to find people of about your skill level or a bit better who actively want to do content at about the same rate and at the same times you do.

These two communities have a good reputation for newcomers to raiding and M+

Alliance: (Alliance) Scared of Dungeons EU EN

Horde: [H] Zen Horde - Chilled PvE Community

and The Fail Train Discord is available for both factions:

Horde gives you more opportunities, but it’s not opportunities that will hold you back, because there are plenty Alliance-side as well.

It is the effort you put into working with a group, and into improving your play, that will get you into raiding and M+.