I started this game at the start of Legion and fell in love with the Nightborne. I played a troll druid to rep grind my way to unlocking them and found out they couldn’t be druids. (I was a beginner, please cut me some slack)
After finding that out, I switched to Alliance and leveled this character from scratch since I wanted to be some sort of druid since it’s my favorite class. I loved the lore of Night elves and it seemed like a perfect fit. But I’m really finding that the alliance is lacking in members.
I can only raid late night (22-4st) and it’s troublesome finding a guild that falls in this category. Raiding is very important to me in this game. On the other hand, I have contacted a few Horde guilds that are interesting, but I can’t imagine switching with the upcoming Night Elf changes in Shadowlands, although Tauren are looking very very good too! So I’m in a bit of a pickle.
Horde also seems to have a much richer storyline than Alliance (but that’s just my opinion).
What I want to know is, what made you pick your faction?
Was is it some lore? The character customization? Or something else! I’d love to know, especially from Horde players why they chose that side.
I played Alliance since the beggining.
I played WC3 before starting to play WoW and I simply fell in love with Arthas’ story and the night elves. So when I started in WotLK I created a NE hunter and a human dk.
I tried to play horde because it looks badass, it’s much metal than the ally, has better racials, it has more members, etc. but I couldn’t choose a race that I like.
I am going to stick with the Alliance.
was alliance from the start, wanted to be ‘the good guy’,
after the purge of dalaran I went Blood Elf because we weren’t the good guys at all really
the horde speaks to me better; mismatched, misunderstood, and constantly receiving the blunt end of a boot
their will to survive in the face of the alliance’s abject xenophobia and hatred of them is what keeps my heart there despite the fact my mains are both alliance
For me it was the lore but also WC3 and Warhammer.
My favourite wc3 race is night elf but the feel of them is not the same in wc3 and wow.
Oh and yeah orgrimmar felt so much better then stormwind to me.
So I went horde unlike most of the people I knew irl at the time.
My RL friend was absent from our meetings so I decided to join him, back in October 2005.
He played a level 55 Tauren Druid.
He suggested me a Troll Hunter (this character).
Started as a trial account thanks to his code and here I am.
Like the idea of Thrall Horde concept.
I chose a female because unlike males they have their back straight.
As for lore, I always found more interesting to play the people that try to find their path away from the legion influence as in the case of Orcs and Forsaken, people that want to recover from the destruction of their city like the Blood Elves or people that are just trying to survive like the Tauren, Darkspear Trolls or Goblins.
Mythic raiders swap to Horde for 2% throughput increase through racials -> Heroic raiders swap to Horde in order to have Mythic guilds they can progress through -> Normal raiders follow Heroic raiders to have heroic guilds they can progress through.
Now you have so many people following eachother over to Horde, that even non-raiders get affected by it, same philosophy gets put into the mind of PvPers, 2400 rated PvPers swap to horde to progress, 2ks follow the 2,4ks, etc etc
And once everyone is on Horde, there is no reason to be on Alliance because you’re simply gimping yourself out of a larger pool of potential friends and players to play and progress with.
This is the appeal of Horde nowadays, more players, the core of an mmorpg
a friend of mine already played horde and since i wanted to play with her i rolled horde as well.
if it wasnt for her, i think i would have chosen horde anyways. i just love their theme, their races, cities.
alliance felt like an emulsion of humanoid people at that time. i mean, its fine, i dont mind, but its just not for me i guess. im already a human in real life, so why would i want to be one in game when i could be an awesome orc, troll or tauren? guess it comes down to personal taste in the end.
a tauren druid pretty much sealed the deal for me. i played horde until wod and a little into legion, then mained a human monk in legion and went back to horde last december cause im a horde at heart and my guild disbanded on alliance.
i know a lot of people dont really like (female) tauren cause they are not a “pretty” barbie race like the elf races and have hooves, but for me it was love on first sight to be honest.
nowadays i play horde and alliance tho due to friends and to mix things up once in a while.
I originally started Alliance but the realm I played on was dying, a friend encouraged me to join them on Draenor and Horde so I rolled a new character.
Since then I have always played both factions, it’s interesting to see different sides of the story.
Honestly my friends play horde, both sides have some nice cities and some pretty bad ones same for races though for races I mostly care about the animations since most of the time you dont really even see your character’s face.
When I first came to WoW the friend who recommended it played alliance so I rolled alliance and stayed there until peer pressure from people on the forums made me roll a belf then a vulpera
Simple fact is: play what you wanna play there is no rule that says you can’t have characters on both factions and looking at the direction of shadowlands it might even be advisable to have a few characters so you can see all the covenants.
