Red > Blue
That’s about it e.e
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I played Alliance for 13 year’s in the end I got tired of PuG groups sucking in normals and losing constantly in PvP due to everyone thinking they were 1 man armies.
I love Alliance architecture but even after Ion said “If you want to play a blue eyed blonde elf then play Horde”, so I did.
Because alliance is boring and it’s basically humans with short humans with fat humans and wolf humans, while the horde is more diverse.
Also, nelves look so annoying I have no idea how so many people still play them.
Draenei and worgen are the only alliance races I like. Kul tiran druid forms too, but only the animal forms.
Meanwhile I love trolls, zandalari trolls, belves, orcs, tauren, forsaken, nightborne, maghar orcs, highmountain tauren, goblins and I tolerate vulpera. Even though I play mostly pretty races, I like the lore of other horde races and playing with them.
You do the math.
Horde=Hard
Alliance=Nancy Boyz
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Blood elves
Honestly, it is nice having orcs with a more defined lore than “green, stupid and wanting to smash everything in sight”.
Same goes for the other races in the Horde, in many other fantasy settings these races are almost always “evil” or at least outright hostile.
And while the horde have still been portrayed as “evil” it is simply because, as any new countries or empires, they make a lot of mistakes.
So I like the lore around the Horde, for the most part.
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I chose the Alliance back in vanilla because I’ve always had a love for the “good guys”, which they were and are in my opinion.
This was only reinforced when I was leveling in Ashenvale and were ambushed by two tauren druids, who kept using entangling roots on me.
It was at that moment I realized, that horde people were seriously bad people and needed to be exterminated.
TBC was introduced and with it, Blood Elves. This introduced a really big problem, since with this introduction, the horde started multiplying like rabbits and I started feeling like an Australian soldier, fighting the endless Horde of emus (look it up).
Needless to say, over 250.000 honorable kills later (got the “The Bloodthirsty” title), and I have barely made a dent in their population. It is now that I realize, that those forkers are not only multiplying, but they are respawning after you kill them as well.
Anyway, I like fighting for the underdog and the good guys. And the Alliance is most definately both, as they fight an uphill battle against the menacing Horde!
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Actually, I always loved the ally cities and especially their garrison in wod, but I have all my chars as horde since day one cause my friends were horde as well.
If it didn’t cost anything I would reroll them all since all my friends have quit playing. Or if we could send money between horde and alliance I would also switch by making a new char.
I always hated horde druid catform compared to the nelf version, that one look incredible and I love cats. My troll druid cat?form look hideous.
Edit; actually I remember I rolled a dwarf priest at release day but there was a rollback on the server after a crash and my then lvl 10 char was lvl 1 when I logged back in so I changed it along with my brother and started a troll hunter.
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You can pretty much discount anything this person says as being of any value, they still have not apologised for calling women financial commodities…They don’t know lore and they make up ‘facts’ to suit their narrative, they’re a bit of a joke meme to be honest…
Lets be fair…which faction invented that type of mentality? “Illidan, Vot are you Doink, Vot is in dat Vial?” “Shut up love of my life, I am doing what must be done to assure that generations of people who would otherwise listen to alternative music, write poems that make people cry and draw pictures of women with daggers in their eyes instead choose the path of blinding themselves and eating demons in order to sacrifice nothing and become really Overpowered!”
Not sure you can really pin the misused ‘Edgelord’ term on the Horde there…
Are…are you going to be alright?
One of the most sensible statements in this whole thread (including my own), Sir/Madame I salute you. Yes, that is a crucial thing about Warcraft Orcs…
Not gonna lie, I already know all about what you are referencing, so didn’t need to look it up, but the basic premise that such a thing could actually happen was hilarious…
Or I used to think so…
Until last week I think it was, the local press warned us that a giant Vulture had escaped from the local Castle and was marauding the skies, people should look out for their cats, small dogs and small children. Apparently he is very friendly unless you get within a couple of meres of him, at which point his ‘friendliness’ rapidly dissipates. He’s apparently called Frank.
Again, I am not making this up. He’s still at large in the skies above us as I type I think.
I like both factions for different reasons I suppose. Blood Elves attracted me to the Horde, not because “hurr hurr, Pretty race” but because I liked that they were much more like the old Celtic legends of Elves working with monsters, because they were also monsters, just a different type of monster, and the Horde lore is a weird mishmash of the awful and the dread necessity of survival.
I like survival against the odds stories…
I like fantasy tropes being turned on their heads.
Thats the appeal for me.
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In all honesty, I started playing Horde before X-server because they had shorter PvP queues. The entire game was mostly Alliance, then… but then the Bloodelves came and the scales tipped the other way.
I play both factions now, but I main Horde - it’s just what I am in Azeroth, now.
Alliance has always too “perfect” and self-righteous to me, though I love strolling through Stormwind.
The appeal of the horde for me and where I play it is being able to play races that in games are typically reserved for use as killable monsters and one-dimensional bad guys.
Being able to actually play as an orc, a troll, a minotaur-like creature, a goblin or the living dead is actually pretty fantastic.
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To be fair.
Only Horde players.
And Demon Hunters.
Likes Illidan.
For me it’s just the fact that all my friends and ppl Ive made friends I game is horde. Other than that I don’t really care what faction i play.
I joined the Horde for a friend many years ago. Ever since then I go back and forth between Alliance and Horde but I never feel at home when I go on my ally.
It’s diverse, interesting and crazy at times, I love it.
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Not that I disagree, but can you elaborate ?
Imagine talking to a mirror
Nah, do it. I have an headache this evening, and I want a story before going to bed.
Imagining Liam O’Brien voicing this is amazing.
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Horde has Vulpera and the Alliance does not. Thats reason enough to be Horde.
But the Alliance are very one note.
The Horde has more variety. Not just in appearance but in the themes and ideals and cultures of their races.
With the Alliance it feels you have to like the theme of pretty and perfect.
With Worgen and now Night Elves you can throw in Angry at everything as well but thats not very appealing to me.