While you are technically correct horde does “feel” more evil than alliance for me and others 
(Gnomes are jolly creatures if you play with them as alliance side, but feel as the most evil creatures when playing as horde)
Yeah I know what you mean. But I don’t think they’re supposed to feel evil haha. Neither the Horde nor the Alliance for that matter. They just have conflicting interests but they still cooperate and work together at times and try to maintain a balance of power. There’s even extra- or supra-factional organizations in the game like the Cenarion Circle for example.
The Orcs and their allies (forest trolls, ogres, etc) were indeed supposed to be evil in the first two rts games but they got redeemed in Warcraft 3 when they cleansed themselves of Mannoroth’s satanic corruption. And even there (in WC3) they worked together with the Night Elves (who initially wanted to destroy both the Horde and the Alliance) and the Humans (led by Jaina) to defeat Archimonde and the Burning Legion.
Just because the two factions are sometimes or mostly at war with each other it doesn’t necessarily mean that one is good and the other evil.
For me it was easy.
Alliance -Night elves
Horde - Forsaken.
I really love forsaken and played them a lot. But ingame immersion as forsaken is broken after vanilla. They don’t help people because they like to help (the entire questing atmosphere of tbc and wotlk). I really enjoyed forsaken faction quests.
My favorite class was always was Druid but I don’t like Tauren. So I play my sexiness favorite race and most loved class
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I agree. I started wow because of him (Arthas) to take revenge 
I picked Horde because my brother who first played WoW played Horde and I’ve seen his orc hunter raid all those cool places like Karazhan.
Now it just feels natural that whenever I create a new toon it’s automatically Horde, I’m familiar with all the cities, points of interests, lore etc. I’d feel kinda lost if I played Alliance after all these years. But maybe I’ll go for it one day, it would almost feel like a new game probably. If I do, I’ll go with a dwarf.
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Why choose? I just play both. Not usually all races, though. Dwarfes are great, gnomes are cute, forsaken are just badass and Tauren are kind of different. Humans and orcs bore me, nelfs and trolls annoy me, so I go by races, not by faction.
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What about draenei?
I hate them from the bottom of my soul. They are one of the reasons I prefer Classic over TBC. They don’t make any sense. They are fine on the Exodar or in the TBC world, but a total immersion breaker in Azeroth. And I like Azeroth. As some kind of hero race, they don’t fit into a world of killing boars. Draenei in Stormwind or Ironforge? I could rant about that all day. They hardly fit through doors. The only way to make that worse is the Classic TBC store mounts. Belfs are kind of fine, but Draenei? No, no, no!
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My brother played Alliance, so when I started playing I picked Alliance too.
For classic, I went with Alliance because that’s what I was nostalgic for.
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They were retconned for TBC. In TFT the Draenei were all Lost Ones. They weren’t Eredar. Archimonde and Kil’Jaeden were demon lords and had no relation to the Draenei.
Later in TBC they were all made Eredar and the Lost Ones were made to be degenerated Draenei. But since they looked so very different from Draenei Blizzard also pulled the Broken out of their rear to bridge the gap and explain there are actually three phases of devolution or something.
Lol.
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This is actually all I care to know about Draenei lore and the best summary I have seen so far. 
I’m only sad they never added Ogres as a playable race.
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Meanwhile I find the Draenei more immersive then Gnomewarriors. I mean seriously how should they take hits from enemies like Dragons or even Orcs? They are so small what for a normal warrior would be a sword would be for them actually a Zweihänder.
Whenever a Gnome should try to tank it should actually happen this:
For me the in Legion invented Gnomehunters are actually more believable then Warriors.
Even the Lorereason for Gnome Death Knights is more believable as Arthas think of them as a sick joke similar to:
I don’t know if I should thank or curse my dad for introducing WoW to me at such a young age - because as a kid with ADD and autism, prone to daydreaming and escaping reality in my own fantasies, I fell in love with night elves, their lore, and zones. My first character was a hunter, and I named my pet after my cat.
A friend of mine whose brothers played WoW, used to invite me and a couple of others to play at his house. We went there every break, and stayed there after school for many hours. Looking back, I’m happy they never made a fuss about me being a girl.
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I grew up on Tolkien books and films, been obsessed with his work since I was very young. So I have always have the idea of Orcs = Bad, Undead = Evil etc.
But the biggest thing for me was overall theme, the Grand City of Stormwind, the Fortress in the mountain forged in Iron, the protectors of nature and the world tree. Compared to some huts and seemingly randomly thrown together.
The character fantasy of the Alliance I’ve just always found more appealing, it has always felt it was leaning towards Alliance being the heroes and the horde being the people who gank low level players while they try to level.
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I played D2 before playing wow, thought wow hammerdin might be a thing…it wasnt so off to Horde I went, races are much cooler there and no paladins!
Plus Horde are the goodies imo…don’t trust humans one bit! /suspicious
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My gf wanted her caracter to look like herself.
Are we human, or are we dancer?
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I knew from past experience that Alliance on a RP server has some really nice and interesting people, so I went for it and played on Hydraxian Waterlords Alliance. When they messed up the servers during TBC, I wasn’t here, so I obviously had to re-roll for WoTLK and simply followed the people I already knew to another server, same faction.
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Why and how? Well easy enough. Wanted to play paladin but prefer the Horde… Not much choice when it comes to that, right?
The Forsaken lore was just way too cool to skip, especially for an emo teenager in 2007 or so. Their /dance was also a key factor that led to my choice.
And don’t forget the fun of being a villain was doubled. Since the horde was mostly considered the evil faction - and the Forsaken were actually plotting against all of the living races on Azeroth.
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