I thought I’d roll Alliance this time around so I make a human warrior. At first it felt like I was in the Lord of the Rings, but the way other Alliance players act just ruins my vibe completely.
Not that they are bad in any sense, but most of them just play the game to complete it. They’re too serious. You can have some of the best players here, but as soon as they face a bit of retaliation most of them just give up.
I have no idea to describe it, but they are sometimes so passive, while at the same time act entitled?
Meanwhile I decided to level a Horde on another realm and it’s constantly banter being traded, nobody takes the game serious and people just try to make the best out of situations. I have seen many entitled players on this side too, but most of the people I played with so far are more laid back and chill than the people I played with on Alliance.
Horde players are somehow more enthusiastic in PvP. They will not give up easily, where Alliance sometimes run around like headless chickens in PvP. I’m speaking about WSG, not Ashenvale
Yea ik what you mean. Horde also does Support each other more in wpvp. Alliance i Sometimes dont get Help at all, they Just mind their own Business sadly, and also realy egoistic when questing, much toxicity
That’s the thing I noticed too, Horde is ride or die. The Alliance just ignores world pvp to go straight to the objective. Same with blademaster mirrors. Instead of killing them so everyone can group up, people just run, with the leftovers getting killed.
Alliance players are more polarised between two ends and have less of a middle ground between player types. Horde has more players that are either “normal” people or pvp’ers.
Let me explain:
I played both factions, a lot, in every different expansion/iteration of wow. In og WotlK for example, human racial “every man for himself” was broken so a lot of pvpers have rerolled alliance, so what I exmplain below is not valid for all the expansions.
In classic alliance has better PvE racials. (like human weapon specialization) So minmaxer swearlord parse gods and speedrunners tend to pick alliance more. At the same time, alliance has better looking models, cute pink haired gnomes. So that attracts 45 yo mom gamers, weebs and kids from your high school who want to look like Legolas and Gimli.
So alliance population attracts both uber elitist parsers and clueless absolute casuals. Parselords take the game very seriously and they take efficiency above anything else, so if you waste their time, they want to lose it asap and go next game instead of fighting over a bridge for 45 minutes, I experienced this during AV premades in classic. As soon as some horde started defending the boss, 10 minutes into the game, people would start spamming “let them win we are wasting time” in the chat. At the same time, uber casual people with pink haired gnomes can’t take too much stress either since they don’t care much about the game and they certainly can’t pvp at all.
So what you have is a population that is more concentrated on two extremes and both don’t like wasting time on a video game, for different reasons.
Horde, on the other hand, has better pvp racials, especially orc and undeads. So horde attracts pvpers, world pvp gankers, griefers, dispellers and sapper charge suicide bombers more than alliance does.
Of course this is a generalization to an extent, but as most generalizations, it is more or less the case. Of course there are all types of players in both factions, but there is also a general tendency which I described above.
Alliance is all the people who thought they won’t get ganked as it’s the majority - horde is all the people who welcome the ganks and enjoy the challenge of being outnumbered. The rest needs no explaining.
I mean horde and ally are doing their passive rp without noticing. While horde moving together, Ally act like douchebag but exactly the one we see in Wow movie “lothar character” douchebag level
One thing I noticed when I made an Alliance character a month into phase 1 was that there were a lot of people stealing mining nodes, skinning, herbs and chests from right under you when you’re fighting. That was a shock to me as I hadn’t experienced that as much from Horde players (of course there are still idiots in the Horde as well).
I guess players who mostly choose human/human-like races in fantasy games have different mentality. I know it is not always like that, but generally, you will see some differences. For example, as a horde, I always help someone, even if enemies outnumbered us, and it will lead to death. And other hordes also often help me. But I can see very often Ali who let other player die, even if they could save him with just one click.
Weird i Always Love to take lower faction. In Classic Horde was majority, i thought i Go alliance in Sod. I Love PvP and ganking, but the alliance Citys are Just BIS. Hard decision over Horde Race or alliance citys. Ironforge gives me goose bumps
alliance has more generic soldier type personalities that act as a big collective, led by a personality that directs the raid, they are happy to go along with the flow. more younger players. more “selfish” players, single goal orientated
horde has more small groups, skirmish pvp that roam around directly looking for pvp. they might have older players and perhaps less sociopathy, as their monster looking character is a reflection of their diminished ego and narcissism.
Our server has enforced server balance dunno about many others, but horde was Locked when i rolled my char here lol.
among bots and more its hard to really tell which one is or isnt the majority, let alone what will end up the majority in the end of things, Horde has better pvp racials, it’ll have a stronger pull on pvp orintated players, most know this.
Because it’s potentially more detrimental than beneficial while leveling as alliance. STV is even more inconvenient for alliance, due to no middle flightpath.
With that said, I enjoy wpvp. Rarely do I encounter horde who have the balls to 1v1 though.
I have a character on both factions, a Warlock on Horde and Rogue on Alliance, and have the opposite experience. Honestly regret having the Warlock on Horde and would reroll if metamorphosis wasn’t such a pain to unlock. This is of course just my personal experience, but:
On Horde you actually have people asking for payment for summoning someone to a boss in Ashenvale. Which I think is awful, considering you’re a raid and you want to win asap, not profit off teamwork…on Alliance the Warlock would always just summon people.
if people complain in chat about getting ganked, on Alliance people ask where and go to help. On Horde, they just ignore the people getting ganked or make unfunny jokes.
my experience with people helping you when getting ganked is the opposite, always feels like Hordes just run away. I usually help if it isn’t a fight where the other player is dead before I would get there anyway.
the chat is a lot more helpful on Alliance, Horde chat feels kind like retail General chat
and lastly Horde almost always lose Ashenvale. Maybe because there are more Horde PvP gank squads in Alliance leveling zones than Ashenvale, whereas Alliance mostly gank in Ashenvale. Though both factions will go out of their way to kill enemy players. I wouldn’t mind losing Ashenvale if the atmosphere on Horde was more friendly, but it isn’t so it kinda adds salt in the wound.
Like I said, this is just my experience and if someone has a positive experience on Horde, I am happy for them. I wish I did, would prefer to play Warlock over Rogue, cause I like the big ugly purple demon form, but not really enjoying the Horde vibe.
Not saying there aren’t nice people on Horde, met plenty of helpful people and everyone is so much more polite and talkative than on retail, but not having a good time on Horde.
dunno about many others, but horde was Locked when i rolled my char here lol.