Project Lore

I play horde now, though I didn't for quite some time. I started out with elves and what not leveling a NE druid, then I worked on a human rogue named Kerrigan for a short while. Then when penny arcade started playing on the dark iron server I played as Modama, a NE Rogue and was shined on by fate by being able to join Anarchy, a great guild with a lot of nice people. Though with all those experiences I found that I didn't really like Alliance as a group of people. Though some were nice there were certainly a lot of people who were most likely twelve year olds who had gotten to big for there britches. So when an RL friend of mine wanted to play we both rolled UD warriors and I've never looked back. Though I also rolled a BE pally. I think I like the horde better also because of the social lore that goes with them. The "Good guys" are only as good as the history books make them sound. Every leader and every race has needs and wants. They can't be simply classified as good and evil, those are thoroughly outmoded terms and shouldn't be given such a large chunk of our focus when choosing who we want to play as. Though as a final note I would like to say I like the BE, UD part of the horde way more then the Tauren, Troll, Orc, side. I like more of the caverns and sprawling cities instead of the far more tribal camps. That is one thing I miss about Alliance, better architecture.

I'm sort of rambling... but on a final note, if any Alliance see a BE pally questing around on the Stormscale server, don't gank me, I didn't even do anything to you.

None the less....

FOR THE HORDE!

Well lets take a look at the words (mostly adjectives) you'd associate with different races, allies first:

Humans: noble, good, honourful, kind, average, smart.
Nelves: noble, good, honourful, kind, natureloving, ageless, wise, furious at times.. and quite self-centered.
Dwarves: noble, honourful, good, sturdy, headstrong, drunkards, tinkers and makers, strong characters, irish accent.
Gnomes: I'll skip them 'cause I hate them.
Draenei: good, noble, wise, honourful, kind, ageless, quite big, loving and caring, holy.

And horde:

Orcs: shamanistic, strong, sometimes noble, sometimes kind, hierarchy-following, honourful, furious when angered, berserking. Flawed, but still not inhumane.
Taurens: earth-loving, shamanistic, peaceful at times, very strong, big, wise in a way, tribal, slow at times. Less furious than orcs, flawed but still not inhumane.
Trolls: voodoo, shamanistic, partly dark partly hilarious, jamaican accent and capoiera, tusks, furious at times, wise at times, a history full of greatness but also shame. Flawed but still not inhumane.
Undead: a lot of them evil, sorrowful, indifferent and heterogenic, dark, have lost a lot, still at times honourful, still at times caring, confused. Flawed and more evil than any other race, but still not completely inhumane.
Belves: proud, fallen, vengeful, sometimes honourful but often not, confused, disgraced, broken and lustful of magics.

To me, the alliance races seem more homogenic, holy and unrealistically good. The horde races are, in my opinion, much more humane. The lore behind them and their mistakes is deeper. The idea of a feral-looking being like orc not actually being completely consumed by evil is a nice change from the old Lotr-view of orcs. Taurens, the big fluffy cows, are a nice addition. They are all different, have their different histories and philosophies, but still they work together. Allies are not nearly as interesting. The dwarves have the most potential.

I guess I'll list my characters and why I play them. I cross faction, with a favoritism toward Horde.

Keshan - 70 Draenai Shaman - Only real Alliance race I can stand to play, strangely. Everyone seems to hate them, whether it be their looks or lore. I love 'em. Mainly play this toon to play with my step fam.

Wrathblade - 52 Belf Rogue - I play Belfs mainly because, well, I'm built like one. I relate to them. ANd besides - Belf Rogue +Cursed Vision of Sargareas + Twin Azzinoth Warglaives? H. O. T.

Nargrel - 45 Orc Shaman - Strangely enough I relate to the orc's plight as well. If you want the fully story, go read Lord of the Clans by Christie Golden. That book almost made me cry. xD

Tanthren - 40 Belf Pally - Again, relation to the Belves, I like to tank but I find warrior tanking a little intimidating.

Ithrenus - 30 Belf Mage - Again, relation to Belves. I had a 63 mage at one point but it was a troll, and troll + mage = weird non-fitting lore and equipment looks weird. I know, strange reason to give up a 63.

Nazrax - 10 Orc Warlock - Because Warlocks have to be Orcs.

I rolled horde just to explorer areas that I wouldn't normally explore when playing alliance. Plus the horde usually win my battlegroup.

I play Horde Orc Shaman cause of the lore. I have played all WarCraft games and the history of orc shaman just fascinates me.Ever since i played wc3 and read the two books "Lord of the Clans" and "Rise of the Horde" with their tragic past and so on i was like totaly hyped, so thats my story ^^

Greetings from Fenrisar, High-Shaman of the Horde and protector of the old ways!!! (EU-Destromath)

Me and my gf play horde because we feel this game should be dark and evilish
not like a kids game where you have fairy's and castle's you can skip though flowers and what not

and horde racial abilities are better

its just sad that most people see the horde as "dark and evilish"anyone ever read the tragic past of the Orcs ? i mean they were friends with the Dranei until an idiot named Guldan and an senile Ner´zhul doomed the orcs.

I wish more understanding for the Orcs and their past.

i am a troll shaman b4 bc so i want 2 b a shaman and it wuz horde only then

I chose Horde because from the lore point of view, Alliance are huge dickwads. They shoved the orcs who lost the demonic taint and just wanted peace (particularly Thrall) into internment camps. (remind you of anything, World War II, Japanese internment camps?) Also, the night elves are the reason for all the messed up crap happening in the game world anyway, what with using their magic recklessly and drawing the Legion to them, also creating the naga.

Righto everyone has good reasons why they play horde or even allience instead of the other fraction. but i would like to give a break down of the inbalance of factions on each side.

EU severs [Europe] are dominated by allience. lots of people may know of "Athene" and all that. but if you want to roll winning bg'ers and everything else you go allience in EU servers.

Oceanic and American servers are dominated by horde. Now of course for both Allience and Horde in certain battle groups one its better than the other and its the same for allience on EU servers. But the majority of the bg and other thing winners are horde.

So if you are starting a Horde OR Allience think carefully about your geographically location before choosing a side if your not into raging at your computer for being completely obliterated 5 times in a row at av.

Horde racials are of course better than allience. except if your a rogue human where it may advantage you more then being say undead rogue. but on the most part allience get crappy racials. But to all those who say night elfs stealth is crap i'll disagree very strongly with you there. i have 70 night elf rogue and its incredibly usefull when you've just got out of battle or sitting on the edge of on with low HP you can just eat while in stealth which is extreemly useful.

i have also found [playing both sides 66 rogue on horde 70 rogue and 70 pally on allience] that horde [i play oceanic servers but 66 rogue is on american] that horde would be more mature and on average seem to be better skilled. i just feel and it may not be true that allience get stuck with younger generation of people. but then again it may just be because i'm in the Non EU servers where we would woop ass all day long.

I have a 70 horde (Warth Mage Undead Vashj[not all that geared]) and a 70 ally(Zearha Rogue Gnome Blood Furnace).

the diffrents between them if there really is any, but if i would have to look deep into it i would say that yes ally has way more kids playing or people who act like kids, but horde they have will more insaulting people. Talking to people i found on horde server is that u cant do a thing wrong at all or they jump on u. Think about this i was sheeping like a good mage does in Mana Tomes. Durning one of the sheep it failed and the thing got a little piss at me and Mana Burned me dead. my miss sheep whip the group and i was kicked.

Well, it's not true that horde ALWAYS wins in bg's :( I play on the Dragonmaw EU server(also known as Dramamaw for the almost non-existing guildprogress and lack of tanks/healers) , which os part of the Battlegroup Bloodlust, now in most bg's ally horde wins are about 50-50, but man horde sux in AV on my battlegroup, and everyone who plays different server tell me horde pwns bg's and i don't see ANYTHING about that on Bloodlust EU battlegroup, and that kinda makes me sad :(

well I first started as a human pally but around the 40s mark thing got out of control as a rap pally i rarely got groups for any dungeons and when i was i was tank and people blam me for not healing as well I like o...k weird I am tanking and healing and it got the next I suck on healing then ever1 blams me for not tanking or ever off tanking i am like how can do 2 thing that once and I was new to the game so after getting to much blam I was like well the allis are jerks so I delete he and try a undead warrior and I got him to lv 70 and having fun :)

I play Horde for one reason: the age difference. I find that when I get into random pugs, or even trade chat while playing an Alliance toon, the conversation is of a lower maturity level than when I play my Horde toon. I only play PvP servers, so I negate both sides of the ganking delima. Everyone ganks, and everyone gets ganked... both Alliance and Horde. But I find when I'm instancing or talkin' with guildies, there seems to be a more intelligent, sophisticated, and mature conversation level on my Horde toons.
Additionally, I find that the Horde races seem to be outcast and seen as either monsters or betrayers. And it intrigues me to see why their side of view...

Archas 70 Belf paladin Thunderhorn (EU)
Zenkor 70 Trollish hunter Thunderhorn (EU)
Bimer 70 Lovely Gnomish sex machine Thunderhorn (EU)
Creater 70 Nelfie Rogue Thunderhorn (EU)
Branu 63-64 (?) Female shamanastic cow Thudnerhorn (EU)
Fizzeled 57 Gnomelock (lvl'ing for WoTLK) Thunderhorn (EU)
Gothi 55 UD warrior Thunderhorn (EU)

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I play a horde and an ally,none I love better.
I dont think it should be chosen by appearence,but by racials,Flight paths(the horde one in thousband needles is awesome,and so is the ally flight path in blasted lands.)
Different players too,ofc,cuz if you are in a server where the allys treat you bad,you will probably change to horde(unless you want to be extreme and leave the server,or do nothing and enjoy going alone places)
The thing is both factions have great ups and downs,and
Some racial talents treaties and classes treaties help too,because if you want to choose a certain class or prof,then it will probably affect your decision.
In the end it comes down to the player's choice.

I roll both... I started on horde way back when... never got a char past 30 because I was trying all the classes and what not before I choose one... Then I found out that PvP titles where going away soon (yes this was pre BC) and so I desided to switch from the server I was on to a PvE server just so that I could get some easy titles before they died... the side that had the better low level PvP on that server at the time was the alliance so that is what I made... I was annoyed that I was 1 week away from hitting knight when the 2.0.1 patch got released removing the old PvP title system when I thought I had till launch day and not just patch day.

Since I already had a few higher level alliance by that point I stuck with them till about a month ago in which time I wanted a different view on the quests, plus I wanted to have both a 70 Alliance and 70 horde on 2 different servers before 3.0.1 so I went back to horde on my original server to reroll onto it...

I mainly wanted 70s on both sides just so that I could go I played through both sides before you could go woop I have a 55 on this server that I don't have any other char on yet. Since my horde are on PvP server and my Alliance are on PvE I am going to level my horde first for minimul gankage while leveling and then go back to my good old alliance.

Story summarized I rolled horde just to say that I played both sides up before there where such things as hero classes.

i personally started as a nelf warrior but got rlly bored with the starting quests and then made a dwarf hunter got bored with those quests and was like "WTF i thought this game was supposed to be fun" so then i made a tauren druid and instantly fell in love the starting quests were cool (imo) and the zone was awesome

Well, I originally started on a private server. The first cahracter I ever created was a Tauren Druid. So from there on I somehow sympathise the Horde. Especially the Tauren. I have no idea why but I really enjoy playing as a Tauren. I do hate a few of the starter quests but hey, nothing's perfect (it's all IMO). Though I rolled a NE Warrior when I started retail I actually hate it lol. It's kind of a pain to play it. Anyway I rerolled as a Tauren Warrior (No idea why I just felt like I wanted to be a warrior) I'm thinking of rolling an UD/BE Mage or a Tauren Druid. Still not sure but we'll see.