I have been playing my Paladin, my Hunter and my Druid since “the good old days” when 40 man Raids were 5 fps Stutterfests and PvP was… “Crap im out of Arrows!” and so i witnessed the decline of my original Faction with great Sadness for years (i know some people will meme here cause emotions are not allowed).
More and more players go to Horde, the Reasons are clear: often better racials, a way bigger playerpool for Raids and m+, WAYYYYY higher winrates in PvP and also a bigger playerpool for rated PvP. At first, in my Head all of those were just weak excuses… until i bought shadowlands and got the free lvl 120 characterboost.
I boosted myself a Tauren Druid since Druids have a lot of QoL tools that make things smoother. I tried pvp, sure, the waittimes are longer but that doesnt bother me much since i can pick some flowers or do some crafting while waiting. The difference in how Horde and Alliance operate in PvP, not only from a skillstandpoint, but also from the behaviour, struck me as if Thor threw his hammer into my Face.
The General Rule on Alliance is: if the first battle is lost, the Game is lost and they give up. A lot of times insults and blameshifting are going on while players stand there getting butchered while writing.
The general Rule on Horde is: Even if we may lose the first fight, we can still win the War. Usually the undergeared hordeplayers leave after the first battle is lost, better geared people join in and we turn the game around in our favour, i saw this a lot. Gods, we won Ashran WITHOUT a Healer… also, the first time i saw a Commander in Ashran die the ENTIRE Expansion was on horde when we killed Tremblade.
Now to PvE, i do not Raid a lot but i do a lot M+ via the groupfinder (Got all m+15’s and some higher in time on my Druid). The achievements i have on Alliance took me months to complete, while on Horde, i did them in 2 weeks. No joke btw. There is much more groups and players to choose from, also way more players wich put more effort in their character… I had FUN again… so, after all these years, i transfered my Paladin to Horde. Here and there i have to suffer some Bloodelf racist comments and of course there are also a few bad apples on this side, but its overall a MUCH more pleasant experience, even though i miss my golden Classic Armor.
From a Storyperspective i still like the Alliance more but it is just not fun playing there anymore.
The Alliance needs help, desperatly, may it be in the Form of free factionchanges only towards alliance (Yes i know haha Actiblizzion) or a rework of their racials, they NEED something.
Thank’s for reading my totally irellevant Text that will only cause flames and hate, i hope you have a nice day.
) One example of friends I’ve made are a group of Aggra players who are all Portuguese - but they were so incredibly sweet and relaxed that they welcomed me anyway, and it’s only been two days but I already enjoy hanging out with them. I feel I would have never met them had I had some sense of false loyalty towards a fictional divide.
