Horde vs alliance

abnesher · July 2004

HI everyone,

Any of u got some info on the horde/alliance relationship ni WoW?

Can races from horde and alliance group together, or is it just eternal PvP-war between the two?

I just need to be sure that i can group with my friends when (yes i said WHEN, dammit!) i get into EU-beta

Karlarion · July 2004

You can trade with each other on the booty bay. But you can´t do the other things.

VelmontX · July 2004

hey -- is the relationship between the two factions different on a pvp server - than the other - i guess if i read things right - you have to learn a skill to talk to opposite factions -- iv read that somewhere else - but im unclear as to the differences in the servers regarding faction relationships if there is one

Karlarion · July 2004

I don´t think you have to learn their language to trade with them in Booty Bay. It´s an auction house there. I think it´s like that in all servers.

abnesher · July 2004

aaaww....well, from a gameplay-perspective it opens for some nice possiblities, but it sucks that I wont be able to play with my some of my friends should they choose to play horde-races

Guess i have to convince the more evil elements to join the alliance

Dracius · July 2004

Horde isn't evil. The alliance is evil, it's from them that the forsaken was born in the first place.

I think your friends should be convincing you to play horde instead.

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.Reaper. · July 2004

I am playing as a Night Elf when this game comes out for release and I plan to try out the Undead as well, none of the other characters look appealing to play as to me. Humans are always plain jane and overused in these games so I'll leave them alone.

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LoStCaUz3 · July 2004

What about the Trolls? They look like they could be a distant relative to the Night Elves. Different skin tone and a slightly different composure is all that sets the two races apart unless you include factions. The Undead are just Humans that have been plagued. So I am not too sure I would play them then exclude the humans.

I don't want to play Night Elves now. I used to when I first heard about this game from a friend of mine, but now that I have seen the history behind them and their true nature, I am not really all that hyped up about them. It is just something that drives me away that I can't quite put my finger on. Not to mention how many people are going to play a Night Elf right off the bat, so yeah.

Even though this game includes a lot of customization, if Blizzard doesn't add more some of the people playing Night Elf will end up all looking the same. So that is another reason I don't want to play the more popular classes.

I am going to stick with the Horde until I get high leveled characters and then I am moving on to the Alliance and my Paladin.

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Lugnard · July 2004

I'd like to play all races/classes but here's how my layout for them will be:

Orc Warrior

Undead Rogue

Dwarf Hunter

Tauren Druid

Nightelf Priest

Gnome Warlock

Human Mage

Human Paladin

Troll Shaman

agentcipher · July 2004

Sadly, I too like Lugnard have thought about this. I also want to play every race and class. However, I'm trying to mix things up a bit into which race I feel fits each class best, instead of the other way around. My list follows as:

Night Elven Rogue

Undead Warlock

Human Mage

Dwarven Paladin

Tauren Warrior

Troll Priest

Orcish Shaman

Tauren Hunter

Night Elven Druid

I might mix things up a bit in order to find a spot for a Gnome... I'd probably switch the NE rogue for a gnomish one instead. Or, I might just make ANOTHER rogue character. depends on how long I play this game... which also depends on the amount of coursework I have after the game is released.

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LoStCaUz3 · July 2004

Hrmm... Let me give it a shot. I will even throw in gender.

Troll Rogue, Male
Undead Mage/Priest. Female
Human Mage/Priest, Female (opposite of whatever my UD is.)
Dwarf Paladin, Male
Tauren Warrior, Male
Orc Shaman, Female
Troll Hunter, Male
Night Elf Druid, Female

I color coded them because those are the colors I think of when i start to think about each of these races. No brown for Tauren, though. I am quite the nerd, thinking about color when I think about race. Strange, huh? I put the Night Elf last because it is the last thign I will play. Other than that, there is no particular order.

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Evil_Eric · July 2004

Looks great. Cant wait to play it.

Pssst, your shoes are untied.

vamse · July 2004

It would be great if there were a few zones where you could team up with players from the other side, so you can play with your friends and stuff...atleast, i think so.

Dracius · July 2004

Not account.

Server, they said server.

Common misconception...

But no, they said "server" not account.

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LoStCaUz3 · July 2004

Yeah, Dracius is right. If they had said account, I wouldn't be here right now. I would probably be cheering on another game. Not being able to share servers with different factions is pushing it. So if they said not even on the same account, that would break this game for a lot of people.

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Jaws415 · July 2004

Right now there is a lot of discussion in beta on wheter blizzard will implement that you can one horde character on a server, any new character you create on that server must be horde also. (Same thing with alliance). It is not implemented yet in Beta but they are talking about.

agentcipher · July 2004

Well, when one looks at the idea of the Race Wars and raids and stuff, it completely makes sense why they wouldn't want you to be able to play both sides of the war on the same server. It just gives that sense that it really isn't important. However, if you can only play one side, that's where your loyalty is going to lie and you're going to feel that much more connected to the war and etc, etc.

They don't want people playing the alliance to take lands, then everyone switching to the horde to fend it back off, and it all going in one endless cycle like that. I think the idea of only one faction per server is good, and I certainly won't mind setting up on a different server anyways... I'll just tell my friends to play alliance on the same server as me, and ditto with the horde.

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Randumass · July 2004

Yah i'd be fine if the put only 1 fraction on a server beacuse on retail there are going to have way more servers than they have now. They only got two now PvE and PvP. If they do have more than one fraction on a server they are going to have to balance out war and raids. They will have to put something like a login timer where after you log out of of WoW during a war you cant get back it for 10 mins. I duno thats just a suggestion =P

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LoStCaUz3 · July 2004

I'd much rather just have to switch servers. A war could sprout up that you have nothing to deal with. Right when that happens, you need to go rest at an Inn. I wouldn't want to wait 10 minutes just to switch characters while the other is resting.

Just switch servers if you want to play a different faction. It isn't that big of a deal.

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Lugnard · July 2004

Originally posted by agentcipher

Well, when one looks at the idea of the Race Wars and raids and stuff, it completely makes sense why they wouldn't want you to be able to play both sides of the war on the same server. It just gives that sense that it really isn't important. However, if you can only play one side, that's where your loyalty is going to lie and you're going to feel that much more connected to the war and etc, etc.
They don't want people playing the alliance to take lands, then everyone switching to the horde to fend it back off, and it all going in one endless cycle like that. I think the idea of only one faction per server is good, and I certainly won't mind setting up on a different server anyways... I'll just tell my friends to play alliance on the same server as me, and ditto with the horde.
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I agree. DAoC has the same concept and no one complained about that. Plus in DAoC, you can play/group up with other realms on the PvE and the Free for All PvP server.

I just think it would make more sense to restrict allowing only Horde or Alliance (not both) on one server to prevent conflicts from occuring (you could get pked by an Orc, then log on your horde guy on the same server and just spam the guy who killed you over and over). If you want to play as the other races, just go onto another server... simple as that.

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