just lvl a shaman it is really fun to play. cant wait till I finish mine to enjoy the 6sec cd on stormstrike! there will be free trinket for us hordies as well on lvl 50- 20ap an 1% chance to hit
I played horde for 15 years and now playing alliance for the last 5.
I can clearly tell you my final conviction and Iâm not even debating it: Horde has better racials for pvp by a landslide, period. For PvE in classic, alliance had the salvation advantage as well as having human melees, but in SoD these are kinda irrelevant because keeping threat is not an issue for any average tank.
On top of that, horde have better positioning for dungeons and raids and overall less travel times. And finally, with p2 horde has the shaman advantage, which are the best tanks by far and now the best dps specs in the latest warcraft logs parses.
So there are no advantages in the game for alliance now, pvp or pve.
Here was a suggestion I wrote on another thread but of course got no attention.
Obviously, SoD is a massively different game from original classic with hundreds of runes that changed the game design fundamentally. So nochanges mindset is the most ridicilous thing you can come across on the internet for SoD.
They can simply make racial abilities available to all races and end this debate about faction imbalance in a single day. But they wonât.
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If Iâm not mistaken, correct me if Iâm wrong here (Havenât read everything so I donât know if someone took this up already) but⌠The gnomer portal has been a part of the game since start and not just something they added in SoD? 
If so, it just changes the question. Why did they put a portal to gnomer for horde, and no portal to SM for alliance?
it was actually a board decision in early 2003 that horde should favoured so that everyone after a while would only play horde and that the game comes to a stand still. no of course not u potatoe.
Just no âŚ
Majority of runes in alliance areas ⌠Warriors and locks alone had to travel to redridge of all places to get their runes ⌠No horde fp even remotely close
Massively better pre bis phase 1 rewards from alliance quests ⌠DM/SW/Stocks ring and Loch modan Ammo/Quiver just to name a few
Flavour quests added to SOD in alliance areas âŚ
Significantly better leveling dungeon in alliance main city âŚ
Main alliance leveling hubs right next door to each other, Elwynn, Redridge, Westfall and Duskwood. You dont even have to roam far from SW to hit 30
Grouping is easier due to a higher population
AH is stocked and prices are cheaper again due to a higher population
Most of the resources needed for end game pots phase1 were alliance areas only
Paladin buffs, Salvation and fear ward to name others
Gnome bonus to engineering is giving them access to game changing tools that no other race will have access too in each current phase, Ice Deflector(absorbs 600 frost damage, reducing damage potential from mages and shaman), Discombobulator Ray(Transforms the target into a Leper Gnome, reducing its melee and spell damage by 40 and its movement rate by 20% for 12 sec.), and Portable Bronze Mortar(Inflicts 85 to 115 Fire damage and stuns targets in a 5 yard radius for 2 sec.)
Then this phase theyâll have access to the Goblin Bomb Dispenser, Gnomish Battle Chicken, Rose Colored Goggles, High Explosive Bombs(another stun), The Big One(another stun), Gnomish Mind Control Cap, Gnomish Death Ray, and the Sniper Scope(+7 damage to guns and bows).
Warriors and rogues run classic, and humans get sword and mace skill +5 to weapon skill is just insane, The BIGGER contribution though, is the reduction in glancing blows. Glancing blows vs level+3 are quite a hefty % of damage reduction, but vs level+2 i believe its far less significant, cant remember the exact numbers
So no if anything alliance has always been favoured
The +2 vs the + 3 made the humans non relevant for pve. And without anything else its like having no racial at all 
Perception you allready Get with BFd ring.
Yeah i lvl rep 10 % faster! Yey
For horde you can stay in barrens until 20+, then go hillsbrad.
Alliance has to constantly travel back and forth between the zones you mention.
But⌠good to hear someone has a different experience. Was what I asked for after all.
The big alliance PvE advantage has always been not needing to take one shaman per group for totems.
Itâs totally game breaking at the top level the reason why all the best guilds usually play alliance in classic.
Still not fixed in SoD, horde still require 1/5th of the raid to be shamans.
Shamans are currently S tier tanks and dps. I dont think they care if they have to bring 8 shamans.
Ali has so many places where they can kill questing horde and cooperated with Ali NPC. We have almost noneâmaybe that little farm in Arathi and a few UD in ashenvale. We have a huge lumber camp in ashenvale, but you wonât see any Ali near. Most orcs and trolls are hostile for horde too. But the world is full of Ali castles, villages, etc. where we have to quest, and they can easily gang us there. This is true, and you have to hear it.