Horde or Alliance?

Seyt · April 2007

Pick your poison and post your reason, me im Horde all the way, i just notice on my server that there are 3 and a half times more Alliance guilds than Horde Guilds and we still manage to wipe the floor with them, Pwnage thy name is Horde.

paperclay · April 2007

horde...as you say hordes are strong and i love those killer looks

Xeratix · April 2007

As Blizzard told us:

"The POWER of the Horde"

and only....

"The Might of the Alliance"

Antipathy · April 2007

Rough estimates, based on having played both sides:

Alliance: 50% kids, 20% students and young adults, 30% mature players

Horde: 20% kids, 60% students and young adults, 20% mature players

So alliance has a more higher proportion of kids, but curiously, it feels like alliance also has more mature adults.

The large number of kids means alliance have problems in battlegrounds at some levels, particularly 20-29 and 30-39. It's partly time based though. If you play alliance you can just forget about winning any games on a saturday morning, whilst late at night, or during school hours, alliance can field some pretty good teams. In my server group alliance wins much more than it loses at level 70 battlegrounds.

Godliest · April 2007

Horde. More mature player base, better racials. Tends to be a bit too hardcore sometimes. My recommendation is clearly Horde.

Antipathy · April 2007

Originally posted by Godliest

Horde. More mature player base, better racials. Tends to be a bit too hardcore sometimes.

Yep - the hardcore thing ties in with my opinion of most Horde players being 17-24 young adults and students. Too much time and too much testosterone.

Megadoomer · April 2007

Both sides have their ups and downs.

Alliance:

Pros: A lot more players so grouping can be easier. Slightly easier PvE progression due to more PvE focused racials, more paladins (for now) and fear ward for certain encounters. More aesthetically pleasing races and areas (a matter of opinion) World PvP tends to be dominated by Alliance on most servers due to much larger population.

Cons: A lot more people means a lot more @ssholes. A large portion of undesirables flock to the "prettier" races so you have more immaturity, noobish behavior, leet speak and cybering. Winning battlegrounds tends to be harder on Alliance side as well due to the more PvE centric racials and community of players. More lag in populated cities (though this was more a problem before TBC)

Horde:

Pros: A lot less players than Alliance side can form a more tight knit community. Less people mean players need to be more self sufficient and that can make them better players down the road. Overall it seems more mature players roll Horde. Battleground PvP tends to be more successful on Horde side due to offensive based racials and a more mature player base.

Cons: A relatively small population means groups can be harder to find. More PvP focused racials tends to attract more power gamers and elitists. PvE progression can be slower due to lack of fear ward, and (for now) Paladins being in short supply at the higher levels. Uglier races and more drab locations. (again matter of opinion) World PvP can be extremely difficult on most servers due to being outnumbered nearly 2:1 by Alliance.

I always favored Horde, but pick your poison.

DeathAngel34 · April 2007

ive played both sides and i will say that yes there are alot of noobish players in the alliance. for example i was grouped with a pally that still and rank 1 abilities and didnt know what the hell a class trainer was. ive also run into noobs in dungeons that press need for everything on item rolls untill ofcorse we kick him.

well i have seen some noob things on horde side to but nothing too serious. but really its the server not the faction. but there are consistencies in both. ofcorse games are not perfect.

Antipathy · April 2007

Originally posted by DeathAngel34

ive played both sides and i will say that yes there are alot of noobish players in the alliance. for example i was grouped with a pally that still and rank 1 abilities and didnt know what the hell a class trainer was. ive also run into noobs in dungeons that press need for everything on item rolls untill ofcorse we kick him.

I'm afraid ninjaing happens on both sides, and with similar frequency.

However the most noobish thing I'd seen was alliance side. I was in a Stockades group with my hunter. A priest, a rogue and myself were outside the instance and waiting for the other two players to be ready for summoning. I proposed that we start clearing some of the weaker convicts near the entrance.

So the three of us entered, I pulled a single isolated prisoner and used my pet to tank it whilst I blasted away with my gun. The rogue next to me pulled his gun and started shooting as well...

Seyt · April 2007

Originally posted by Level100Plz

I always go with the good guys... I'm sorry

Whoa ok now first of all there is no good or bad side, both sides are fighting to preserve their ways of life. So you say Horde is bad jsut because we look meaner and "uglier" you racist little punk.....

Kaynos1972 · April 2007

I found that leveling a toon on the horde side is faster and more rewarding, especially in the 30-45 bracket.

Antipathy · April 2007

Originally posted by Seyt

Whoa ok now first of all there is no good or bad side, both sides are fighting to preserve their ways of life. So you say Horde is bad jsut because we look meaner and "uglier" you racist little punk.....

I can understand why Tauren my be viewed as good. Or Orcs for that matter. Trolls are a little dubious, given they have only recently cut back on the cannibalism. But undead? Please! Even the rest of the Horde don't trust them they are so dodgy. Half the missions involve spreading poison and disease.

So there's at least one more reasons to accuse Horde of being evil than alliance.

NatoB · April 2007

Originally posted by Antipathy

Originally posted by Seyt

Whoa ok now first of all there is no good or bad side, both sides are fighting to preserve their ways of life. So you say Horde is bad jsut because we look meaner and "uglier" you racist little punk.....

I can understand why Tauren my be viewed as good. Or Orcs for that matter. Trolls are a little dubious, given they have only recently cut back on the cannibalism. But undead? Please! Even the rest of the Horde don't trust them they are so dodgy. Half the missions involve spreading poison and disease.

So there's at least one more reasons to accuse Horde of being evil than alliance.

LOL

IMO the most evil race out there are gnomes, they just aint right, way too small KILL ALL GNOME ROGUES!!

Raize · April 2007

I've played both sides and have seen my share of idiots on both sides, I have also seen a great number of mature players on both sides. I've never really sat down to try and determine an exact percentage of which side has better players and I really don't care, if people bug me I simply ignore them, even though that can be difficult at times. So I really think it really dependes on what server your on and what time of day you play as stated in a previous post.

As to what side is good or evil, all races are good with the exception of the undead, who want to exterminate all life, and the trolls are questionable.

NatoB · April 2007

Originally posted by Raize
As to what side is good or evil, all races are good with the exception of the undead, who want to exterminate all life, and the trolls are questionable.

Every race has evil side to it, every one! Some undead want to exterminate life and some of them want to resolve alot of past life and let souls move on. So to say that the undead are just for that is wrong, THe scourge want to exterminate life, not the undead.

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