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horde get WAY better racials, the troll and orc ones are VERY good for dpsing, and the undead 1s are uber badass for pvp, and the bloodelf is good for i dont really know what. and ally get, a crappy 1k heal, the ability to go invisible but u cant move, stone form is good for pvp and tanking, escape artist is good for pvp, the stealth detection on humans is good for pvp. but the horde racials are way the hell better. and atleast in my battlegroup, the horde always win. and a dwarf a gnome and a human are all the same, just diffrent heights, nightelves are humans with big ears and purple, drenai are very unique. and all the horde races except blood elves are really cool skins

I roll horde because personally i feel they are better for me.
i have an undead mage level 70 and a new toon i am levelling is a troll shaman, currently level 60 and levelling.
i started off with the mage because i love the will of the forsaken racial, as going against my anti-class (a lock) i need as much fear protection as possible.
also i chose a troll to be a shaman, as i feel on the alliance server a shaman seems very out of place, as much as i feel the paladins do on the horde side, also a troll for the faster regen of mana, very handy in a tight spot as a healer.
in all fairness to the alliance i did roll a few toons on different servers but found a lot of kids played alliance and only played at times of the day that didnt suit me. maybe i chose the wrong servers, i don't know. but i am loving the horde so i see no resaon to change.
currently i am in a guild on the venture co. (EU) server, in a guild called the engineers, fun guild who enjo playing with engineering trinkets in booty bay and other things etc.
i have not had as much fun on alliance as i have on horde, people just seem to want to do more!
so thats my reasons :D

The reason i play Horde is I played an Alliance toon up to 70 and just needed a change. I leveled multiple characters to 10 on Alliance and just didn't wanna go through the starting areas again, so I rolled Horde and must admit i like it more just because for some odd reason Horde players, (at least on my server) aren't in game dicks like i found a lot of the times on Alliance.

i have a much simpler reason, my friends play horde so i play horde, and we party up and chat, it makes the game a lot more fun when you got someone to talk to ( as if it isnt already good enough). but i see no reason why one faction is better than the other, its all just personal preferance. Sometimes its just fun to swich things up too, so your not always levleing a guy from 1 to 25 in the same spot every time.

well, i joined the horde because my friends are all horde, i personally dont care either way, but now after lvling two horde characters to lvl 70 and getting them gear on a pvp server, i got to say, i hate the fucking alaince, every fucking person that plays the alaince (on my server) has to be fucking 12 or have the IQ of my dog. i once got camped for 20min with my friend by a skull alaince while lvling my priest, i switched characters and brought my lvl 70 hunter all the way to strangelthorn and killed him 5 times, just to be fair, yes i did hunt him down. now when i switched back to my priest just to see if i could still lvl, guess what the duche did? he killed us, and continued camping our bodies, this is why i hate the alaince, i run into one child that decides to go into a lower lvl area and pick on lowbies.

as u can tell this is a touchy subject for me lol

I rolled Tauren because everything is bigger on a tauren. Also, I wanted to be a druid and I didn't like how night elves looked.

@Andrew - funny, the horde does that to me all the time.

I started out on a PVP server because my friends wanted to, and I rolled alliance because my friends did. I wasn't interested in PVP at all.

As much as you hate the alliance, I hate the horde, for the same reasons, so keep that in mind.

Alliance I feel, at least on my server, is way to cliche. Most of the horde were good guys in Warcraft 3, so I took that into WoW.

Also, who doesn't want to be a seven foot Rastafarian troll.

I play Undead ofr 1 simple reason. I love them. My passion for the Horde began from WarCraft 3, coz when they put Undeads to the WC series I was like "OMG these dudes are so cool and dead!" Ranked 13th on Melee with UD's on B.Net _\,,\ When WoW came out I bought it couple fo days from the release and wanted to see how to Undead's looked like. When I was like, lvl 8-10 and went to Undercity for the first time, I was so amazed how they could make the Undead capital so Awsome. I loved the whole UD starting Lore, love it still and I still like to do my hobby, levelling EVERY low lvl char from 1 to 25 at Undead places like, Tirisfal, Silverpine & Hillsbrad Foothill's where my favorite UD town Tarren Mill is. Horde just pwns Alliance, no offence.

I just find on my server (Aman'Thul) that I have way more fun playing as Horde. I've leveled characters on both sides at the same time, and for some reason, as much as I love my Draenei Preist, she is getting less and less attention due to the simple fact I just don't like my fellow Allies.
It's just silly things mainly, like helping out each other if you realize someone needs it, Ive had Allies stand and watch me get slaughtered by mobs they agroed. I dont hate the Allies. On my server there is just a more community feel on the Horde side!

TROLLS! no other reason..the additude..tusks..way they walk,speak,emote&all, just love it ofc undeads are more for pvp bad ass race but trolls..there is something about them..not bad ass.. just relaxed..but still at the same time very brutal(due to lore: trolls ARE canibals although not darkspear=P) another race i like is blood elfs..do no why but like to play with my paladin atleast.. =)

I chose horde coz i had a mate on horde side.

I have quite a few alliance characters but I also have a couple of horde for a few reasons.

1 - Sometimes I need a breakaway. Often times there's just too many kids on the Alliance main city chat (Trade, more often than not). Anal jokes, anybody? Thus I'll switch to the Horde side where the chats are usually much more content and mature yet at the same time, enjoyable.

2 - As a player, it's nice to know as many aspects of the game as possible. If I plan on raiding as Alliance, I need to first know the areas of what I'm raiding. Having a hordie (?) allows me to gain this knowledge.

3 - Better PvP. There's no denying it. Almost every battleground I've entered with a horde character, I have won. Why? Because they know what it means to communicate. Most of the time on Alliance (especially at lower levels), you'll get a bunch of 12s and 17s who are just for the first time trying a certain BG out and don't effectively know how to play it well. That's not to say Alliance sucks at BGs (I've won quite a lot with my main), but as to say Horde just knows how to communicate better.

And that covers my reasons.

I have multiple Alliance characters including my first main, a rogue on Proudmoore, then my second main, a druid on Wild Hammer. The rogue stopped at 60 when I rerolled on a new server with RL friends and started the druid. After we hooked up with a large guild, did the raiding thing, eventually became the leaders of the guild, dealt with a crapload of drama, we decided to reroll... we were looking for something different, less drama, a new setting, a new pace... Horde seemed perfect.

Now that I am Horde I can't imagine playing an Alliance character. At first I felt like I was a bit of a traitor, but that faded fast. In general, the horde community feels older to me. Maybe more mature as well. That's part of the appeal. Although some of the top raiding guilds are Alliance, Horde also feels like a different caliber of player -- that's a generalization of course.

When it comes to battlegrounds we seem to win most pug AB, WSG and EotS matches. AV in my battlegroup is another story -- Horde don't like to play D at the IB chokepoint, thus we lose often. I got really, REALLY tired of losing BGs while I playing Alliance. I grinded to Rank 10 through that crap. I blame lack of being able to work together as Alliance pugs for the loss. Not an imbalance of maps, or favored objectives. When I played on organized teams we did well. Horde pugs seem to be able to work together -- in general, not always.

Horde feels more intimidating with it's "monster-ish" races. I certainly felt that intimidation while playing Alliance. Having a massive Tauren warrior barreling down on you is a little scary. There's something fun about being on the other side of that intimidation factor now. From a PvP perspective I think it can be advantageous. From a PvE perspective it helps make one feel a bit more unstoppable as well.

Last, but not least, the RL human race (especially in this country) makes me sad. And, video games are an escape from all the BS we see in RL. Call me a hippy, but playing a Tauren Druid and Shaman -- both with close relations to the earth and all that's natural -- is a nice escape from our sad reality.

I just choose the horde because of the lore and the elf...i like elfs....and the the horde lore is amazing, during the 1,2 and 3 war and there a strong people which is my opinion, also you can't denied the fact that the horde pwnd the alliance in BGs,a nd the racial skills, which makes the horde a fine faction too start, the alliance...well i just donno there a bit old fashioned to a player that played warcraft 2 and 3......
Now the only thing that the alliance was that is good...its the gnomes, there small frame and there racil skill which in the confusion of a BG can easily make a mess...But that's just my opinion

i rolled as a horde because they have better raicals there starting area is a bit better an every one on the horde is not a dudce or a kid that doesnt know what caps are or dont know there making people deaf on mic but i still have alliance toon dont play them as much mostly play my BE hunter might deleted my aliance also horde are better on some BG and PVP outdoors too

I Play Horde!
Ive always played horde in any warcraft game, felt cool killing humans in video games not RL.
My main is a 70 rogue, I enjoy the mature playing style of the horde.
I did try alliance out on a PVP server with some friends and I coudnt take the whinning about the horde whopping there asses.
Its a god damn pvp server thats what you do, level up and go gank some lowbies haha. I played several diff. instances with some alliance crowd and they all seemed to be kids not knowing who to play there classes correctly.

Let me make clear, Im a hardcore gamer, i dont like to waste time, i know what i want am as a rogue, im gonna get it as fast as possible. Learn your class, grow up, wow is for adults more than kids.

For the HORDE!!

I know this article is supposed to be about reasons for rolling Horde, but I'm flip it around and say why I don't play Horde. For me, it's always been a simple case of going where I can find a group fastest. I started playing around patch 1.4, and I decided to roll both an Alliance and a Horde character. On PvE servers anyway, the Horde zones always seemed to be empty while the Alliance zones were full. I'm fairly certain this is still the case even today--on PvE servers there are more Alliance than Horde most of the time.

On PvP servers this isn't the case, primarily because there are more people like Scyno who get their rocks off on causing misery for people trying to level a new character. I can understand the logic for choosing Horde--if you're going to gank lowbies, you might as well look intimidating while you do it.

I chose to play Horde because the Alliance is too pretensious in my opinion. The Human NPCs talk about "The Light" often and yet have warlocks as a playable class. Another thing that irks me is that the Draenei worship the light and the Naaru, yet they look to the spirits(shaman) for guidance also. The Night Elf and Dwarves don't bother me as much though. The Alliance seems like one big cliche to me where as the Horde is unique and original.

I was playing ally some time ago on US servers, then i got poor and couldn't afford official WoW for a while so messed with private server on my PC and I fell in love with shamans. That's why I'm now playing horde. Currently I'm rolling a Tauren Shaman on Mazrigos (PvP-EU) but I'm thinking of making a troll one, it looks more fun then my tauren. And I hate it in instances. It's too damn big and in small rooms it's hard to navigate, especially because I'm Enhancement Shaman.

I just love slaying dwarves and gnomes. >:)

(lvl 70 Tauren Duid) /moo

For the Horde !

Umm.. why do i play horde? Good question. I play horde for the fact the ally are not as fictional as horde. Ally are based of humens and i like geting away from real life as much as i can so i chose horde. I also loved horde cuz of there lvling area's they have. Ally have the basic humenish areas which i do not like. And i have also found out that most kids play ally (not trying to start a fight) but kids now a days want to be the good guys and win so they think the ally are the good guys and the hirde are the bad guys which i have heard from alot of people.

When I first started, it had nothing to do with Alliance or Horde, I just like elves, I don't know why. So naturally, pre-BC, I rolled my first character as a Night Elf Rogue. Of course then the Burning Crusade dropped and I got Blood Elves (which to me is more like a true elf) so from that point on it was WHOOOOOOOO, FOR THE HORDE! But I think what kept me playing Horde I think was the simple fact that the Horde had waaay cooler races. I mean, I'm already a regular dude in this reality, why would I want to pay a subscription fee just to be a regular dude in another? What are my other options? Midgets! You mean I can still be a regular dude, only smaller! Oh boy!!!!! As far as the Draenei...ehh, anything they can do the Horde can do better. Warrior? Shaman? Roll a tauren and get 5% extra health for your trouble. Mage? Pally? Hunter? Priest? Elves can restock their mana while simultaneously ripping it out from under their enemies. Of course I would NEVER abandon my purple-skinned sylvan brothers, but I never feel as bad-ass as I do when I'm on one of my Hordies.

I rolled Horde for the lore. Plain and simple. XD

The whole lore and style of blood elves is so appealing its why I play the game.