Alliance or Horde, but why?Follow

I play Horde because I played the original Warcraft games, and they had the goblins.

Goblins ******* rock.

I've leveled both Alliance and Horde characters. At one point my lock and DK were Horde and my Hunter and Druid were alliance, and they both got about the same amount of playtime. In the end though people on the Alliance side tended to be on at the same time as me, and this wasn't as true on the horde side, so I became more alliance heavy. Then I transferred my lock to alliance and my brother moved his horde guild to the Zangermarsh server. So I've been more Alli heavy since then.

Well that and shadowmeld is a tree's best friend.

I'm Horde because my friend was Horde when he got me into WoW so I naturally went Horde. I don't really know much of the lore or anything behind Horde or Alliance, but I also hate Alliance for the simply fact people kill me.

I'm alliance because when I started the friends that got me to start were alliance. I would have no problem playing horde if I had a reason to though. I don't like all the races, but both sides have enough races that I like that any class would be possible. I do think a NE druid is cooler then a Tauren druid. I like trolls, orcs and goblins though, and the only race I actually don't want to play is blood elf.

Edited, Dec 21st 2010 12:26pm by Xsarus

I play Horde. I started off with characters on both sides but I made my first in-game friends on Horde and found that faction to be more friendly and helpful in general so my Alliance characters lagged farther and farther behind. I did knuckle down and get one of my Alliance characters to 80 before the expansion to see more of the quests but she's pretty low priority right now.

Plus - Trolls are on Horde and I just love playing Trolls. ^.^

My friend that started playing first picked both Ally and a PvP server.

We still blame him.

I originally chose alliance because a friend who was already playing was alliance. I probably would have chosen alliance anyway though because in the end it's all about aesthetics and alliance races are generally prettier.

I play Horde. I started out Alliance. I switched because my husband did, so I started a couple of characters to check out their zones and starting areas. I stayed because I came to like a lot of the lore and stories, which surprised me because at first I assumed they'd be the bad guys and I cannot play anyone I perceive as a bad guy. (Hats off to Blizz for putting enough evil and good on both sides to give people a chance to identify with either, whatever their preference.)

I would never switch again. There are aspects of the Alliance that I like. Some of their stories are cool, and I tend to like the design of their towns, cities, etc. a lot better. I still kind of miss Stormwind. But I've come to identify with my blood elf too much to change. And although I'd like to think I'm above such psychological simplicity, I really do think doing PVP kind of polarized me.

Like you OP, I have no feeling that the players on one side or the other are better or worse. My faction choices have really just been about the WoW universe and where I feel comfortable in my little imaginary world. Now though I play with a guild I really love, so even if I wasn't attached to the Horde, I'd stay Horde because that's where they are.


Also, my blood elf is hawt.

I started off Alliance because my bf at the time had a major hard on for paladins. He still does. Every game I have ever played with the man, he's had his main be a paladin. Anyways, after we broke up and I went back to the game, BC had been released and I was curious about Blood Elves, so I tried them out. I rolled a Blood Elf mage, and I never looked back.

Part of what kept me on Horde, was that in my experience, Horde players don't tell Nuck Chorris jokes. They also seem to be much friendlier and more likely to help each other out. I realize this isn't everyone's experience, but this was my experience. Plus, the only races the Alliance have that appeal to me are the Night Elves, Dwarves and now the Worgen. Really the only race of the Horde I don't like are Trolls. This is large in part because I can't play male characters. Male trolls are freaking awesome, female trolls are blech.

Also, I really <3 Sylvanas. I can't explain it, I just think she's ******* awesome. Even now when she's doing some extremely questionable things, I still love her.

Edited, Dec 21st 2010 6:38pm by PigtailsOfDoom

I started as Alliance then got seriously into watching PVP videos. I noticed tons of top PVPers were horde and at the same time I bought into the hype that PVPers play on PVP servers and play Horde. So I kind of followed the crowd. Also vivid memories of my alliance twink getting GY camped, bad teams, horrible W/L %

Over time arena was introduced, racials balanced, rebalanced about 50x. I still stayed with Horde but queues are getting longer these days. Too many people think "PVP=Horde" so they play Horde and lucky Alliance basically get instant queues while Horde ones continue to grow.

Now I just have too many characters to transfer, plus when you play long enough on a server you meet people. But really the queues get on my nerves and I'd switch to Alliance if my friends did. Ideally to balance PVP queues Blizzard should allow account wide Horde->Alliance transfers on PVP servers because 99% of PVP servers are utterly Horde dominated and you cant ignore the vast difference in queue times. Even with BG merge. In fact the BG merge proved more then anything that there are simply way too many Horde PVPers in relation to Alliance.

I'd love for them to make new types of Battlegrounds that are Horde vs. Horde (make up some Lore where Hellscream wants to find the best soldiers in the Horde Army and we are fighting for glory or something), or like I said allow people to transfer their entire group of Horde characters to Alliance. With BOA gear quite a few people these days have 10 characters on a server, might not all be 80, but for some people they are. Paying $250 to transfer all toons, no thx.

I really think they need to do something drastic to fix queues, BG merge wasnt the answer.

I already hate worgen, there are so many of them and they're just so.... uninteresting.
Worgen are pretty much the new night- blood elves.

I am Horde, and the sports team in my area is vastly superior to the sports team in your area.

Look at your DPS. There are gnomes in your DPS. GNOMES! And you wonder why we gank you.