This is a thread for all those who love the horde for what it is, but most importantly it is to share what everyone views the horde as and what they think the perfect horde would be.
So if you’re horde at heart, or an Alliance that also plays horde do let us know of your thoughts on the greatest, coolest and best faction of them all!
I’ll start with I view the horde as this gathering of outcasts, people who have no power to survive on their own, exiles, forsaken and those whom have been betrayed. A gathering of those with dark past, those who have committed acts that let the world hate them.
It’s a mixture of the most noble of races, the wicked and the people regretting their past, an alliance of mutual benefits that is way deeper than that, we started with doubt, distrust and weariness from eachother but grew to like, respect and honor each other.
We are buddies in crime, buddies in honor and buddies in living.
I’d expect a hordish tavern to be filled with all sorts of personalities, a loud place, with constant fighting, but in everyone’s heart they’re willing to take an axe for anyone in that rowdy, filthy tavern.
The horde is flawed, but that very flaw is what makes it thrive.
While I have more Horde-characters as Alliance at this point, the Horde isn’t a great place to be, lore-, player- and community-wise.
Horde-players are too prideful about their status which really gets annoying pretty fast - and most of them are actual Belf-players. Ironically these players yell “FOR THE HORDE” all the time while playing a sand hour class design who is more beauty than outcast or savage.
Lore-wise the story hasn’t been great for a long time with no real stakes but only compromises. Everyone talks about the “honor” but in reality it was an extreme genocide festival which got swapped over and removed from the inGame content (Burning of Teldrassil). Instead embracing the “dark side” of the game, players feel upset of playing a bad character who kills other for the glory.
The only real benefit I have of the Horde is playing a diverse cast of races at this point.
I think this is an excellent analogy - we’ll fight and argue amongst ourselves because we’re all rowdy and have plenty of pride, but the second anyone comes at us? We’ll absolutely have each others’ backs! A gaggle of misfits and outcasts - we weren’t the popular kids at school! Not even you Belfs, you got rejected by the Night Elf jocks and are still mad!
I think Belfs shine better and stand out more because they are horde.
If they were in the alliance they would be regular boring elf race #415989 found in any fantasy.
The idea that such a proud race gets to mingle in the horde regardless of how they look and join in the rowdiness is a very cool appeal to me.
I’d reckon you’d find a blood elf in that tavern acting all high n mighty until some leftovers fly straight towards their face and then they’d join in the brawl just like all others.
Or they act all fancy and posh sitting at the bar sipping cocktails until they’ve had a little too much and then they’re stumbling around trying to proposition a Tauren…
Moothilda is the first char I created, and when I think of how long time I spend looking at race, genders and classes it does give some thoughts to why this char was chosen.
I put a lot of thought into what I wanted to represent me.
The horde is a group of people that does not mix well together because of the different cultures they have - and yet they seem to make it work.
The differences is exactly what makes it work, and I find that fascinating.
The races at hand was more difficult for me because of the differences in them.
I can’t really say why the choice felt on the tauren, but in a way I still think the tauren represent a lot in me - and after Cata, my love felt on the goblins
(as a horde player)
To me the Horde has always been about the search for identity.
I’ve always found that to be the core about the Horde, and I rather enjoy it from a story and gameplay aspect.
Whether you’re assembling Thrall’s new Horde in Warcraft III and slaying Mannoroth as Grommash, or laying siege to Orgrimmar and defeating Garrosh in Mists of Pandaria, or finding salvation in the restored light of a Naaru as a Blood Elf, it’s all about identity.
And Blizzard are really good at making compelling gameplay around that story. At least I think so.
They were to busy arguing with that goblin trying to swindle them.
That’s the thing, that was before they joined, now they are more than that and are thriving because of this " unity " is the way I see it
They cover up for each other, it’s like that I ain’t no snitch gangsta theme, I love how the tauren were the ones who took the initiative and taking in the forsaken.
I like how many horde see the mistakes of their brethren and then turn a blind eye.
I’d imagine a couple of examples like this :-
1- a group made of an orc, blood elf, tauren and forsaken just had some fight with the alliance then the forsaken started nibbling on the alliance and the others were like… just get on with it while rolling their eyes.
2-the orc wants to make the fight the most honorable but the others are like we are KILLING eachother here, you got time to think of honor!?
3- Blood elf taking too long putting makeup before the fight and everyone’s outside pouting and angry.
That used to be the case. Until BfA homogenized everything. I saw no such interesting internal intricacies in the Horde in BfA, they were all just painted with the same brush.
