Why don't you play alliance?

[Combatbutler]

Oldest playable race! Elves evolved from Trolls! Beware of da voodoo!

Draenei are most likely older though.

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I play both sides, but from a storytelling point I must say the Alliance is far too focused on honor and morals, to the point it actually hurts them in warfare.

[Mace]

Oldest playable race! Elves evolved from Trolls! Beware of da voodoo!

but oldest playable race means nothing, in fact the details are so obscure on that blizzard could write anything.. they could even twist it that the elder trolls looked more like elves than they did trolls and magical events altered both, or they looked more like treants. I won't count on that as an excuse.

further to that, trolls maybe one of the oldest species, but the individual troll is not old at all, night elves you meet are the oldest race in the game from the pov that some of them are over 10,000 years old, no troll alive is over 60 or 70 or however troll lifespan is, and unless they are Zandalari, they are almost completely ignorant of their history. Trolls aren't elves, they didn't keep documents or writings, different culture, the zandalari may have done, as they were the priest clan, but you can appreciate that many of the other groups do not, and they pass on their history through oral tradition. Trolls only recently upgraded to be able to be the higher function classes like Mages, Warlocks and Druids very very recently.

which is understandble, it's not that their stupid, but you can see the advantage Elves regarding learning magic first by having a much longer lifespan and be the ones to dwell near the well. Furthermore, after causing a near end the world catastrophe, they then spend 10,000 years successfully supprressing and keeping the use of magic exclusively. one group doesn't practice it at all, and vigilantly vigils the races to ensure they never do. The other group, who escape the radar, teach it to humans as their only means of survival against a genocidal intending Forest troll invasion. TLDR - it's not that trolls aren't stupid

[Arainie]

I play alliance since I started here long ago with my brother and my friends. If I could have made an informed choice I'd have been horde simply for the amazing undead caster animations

[Shafer]

I've only leveled and played high level on Horde since Classic WoW. I always preferred Horde during the Warcraft series, and when I first heard of WoW all I knew is that I wanted to be a Troll Axethrower (we all know how that turned out). Alliance for me has always been too focused on building the Human story. Next would be Night Elf, and I'd argue the remaining groups have little to none lore anymore; their stories have ceased and are built into aiding the Humans/NE's.

If there was more development for Dwarfs and Gnomes, even Worgen (sorry I hate Dranei), I'd actually consider rolling a main on the Alliance side. Ironforge is one of the coolest capitals in the game, and I love the Gnome starting quests; but after you've leveled out of that zone you basically never return. Even as a Horde player I'm really getting burnt out on the Horde development throughout these last two expansions. Thrall was so overdone in Cata, and now Garrosh, hopefully there will be somebody from the Alliance side who will make a great impact on the lore this time around.

[Wulfstan]

Alliance races are lame for the most part. Worgen and Draenei are ok though. I also have a hard time playing a race other then Tauren.

[Pyrolight]

I know right? Maybe I should ask the opposite seeing that alliance : horde ratios are like 60:40 . But closer looks do reveal that the majority of the core gaming community is horde, espeially at end game.

what's putting you off allaince? joke reponses are fine, as long as you give a serious one. Also you can answer the reverse question too, if you're a hard core alliance play, why don't you play horde? what's got you stuck only on alliance?

Three reasons.

1. Horde have for a long time had an edgier feel that is as we know a big draw to a lot of people.

2. There was a perception that came out of vanilla that the horde were bad ass adults vs the noisy kids of the alliance. Hard to say if this was true back then as I only started playing around the time of Naxx, but it is a perception that has lingered.

3. Bad writing. Looking at the writing for both sides, the horde always came across as the faction that was tougher, smarter, and in conflicts the horde tended to come out on top.

The biggest offender was the writing in WC3 and early WoW (since the influx of new blood since cata has been fairly small I suspect).

In order to make both factions balanced re-wrote so much lore to essentially try and make the alliance seem like asses. Just ask people about the internment camps and they will scream how there were concentration camps and how the Horde was right in everything they did. They basically ignore all of Wc1 and Wc2 (since they likely didn't play it) and with Bliz's edits (look up doomhammer pre Wc3), it just made things worse.

Basically in story, design and overall feel the Horde was simply done better.

[thatguy181]

I have high level Alliance and Horde toons.

However, for the Alliance, I only play as Gnomes or Dwarves... and one Pandaren but they, like me, play both sides so I don't really consider it an "Alliance race"

I hate, hate, hate the Night Elves.
I can't stand the Humans (and as such the Worgens)
Space Goats have never thrilled me.

I enjoy the Alliance story, but just as a matter of personal taste, find Night Elves and Humans to be so stuck up I just want to reach through the monitor and slap them.

[Valort]

Gnomes
Lame lore
Gnomes
Space goats
Humans and their liability when it comes to being manipulated by dragons
Gnomes
Horrible racials (Sorry, Dwarf's are fine)
Gnomes
Pink haired gnomes
Cyan haired gnomes
Gnomes

Did I mention gnomes?

[Grubjuice]

Because I'm a man, and men play Horde.

Sounds like a sausage fest.

mmm, sausage, ~

[Pyrolight]

Gnomes
Humans and their liability when it comes to being manipulated by dragons

As I say, bad writing.

[mizeri]

well for me the alliance races are just not very cool looking.

[Thodrin]

I'm currently alliance, have been for 7 years. All my friends from school played alliance, so I joined them as well. I usually have human characters but my favorite race is the dwarves. Maybe it's because I loved the book the hobbit as a child, and his other books. So Ive always felt attached to that race. I currently play an enhance shaman. To be honest I've always wanted to try horde, since the other side always seemed to have the advantage guild wise, population and such. But, my loyalty to the alliance was always there. It just kinda grows on you.

[Coombs]

I've played and raided a lot with both factions from vanilla to the end of WoTLK. Despite everyone saying that alliance are the "pansy good guys", every single horde guild vent I went into was full of bitchmade pansies who whined at even the slightest hint of profanity or risque joke. So I preferred playing alliance because the community on the 3-4 servers I had played on were always a lot better and more entertaining. From cataclysm on I just play the faction that my current pvp team is.

[Nadiru]

Because I'm a masochist. There is no legitimately compelling reason to play Alliance over Horde. In the storyline the Alliance is a setpiece for the Horde, Horde leveling quests are more developed, and Horde racials are better for PvE and PvP.

[ShadowJester]

I started back in Vanilla, and well I wanted to play a Shaman (the best class) so I had to go Horde for that, I mean I would play horde anyway because in lore the Alliance are just douches, racist and grumpy and whiny. I mean with out a doubt both sides have had "evil" characters, but characters who were inherently evil happened to just be obnoxious douchetards more often on Alliance side, Daelin Proudmoore, Garithos, Arthas (before he started going nuts) just a whole bunch of whiny babies. So I've been disgusted by the Alliance for a looooong time, I mean War3 times. Then to top it off the Vanilla Alliance race choices were super, super, super boring. You had Humans, Tall purple Humans, Short Humans and Shorter Humans. At least the horde offered some frigging diversity. Orc/Tauren all the way!!!

[Zenny]

Because I'm a masochist. There is no legitimately compelling reason to play Alliance over Horde. In the storyline the Alliance is a setpiece for the Horde, Horde leveling quests are more developed, and Horde racials are better for PvE and PvP.

Oh, don't be ridiculous.

The Vanilla Horde experience was lacking to say the least.

Also humans have one of the most OP PvP racials in the game.

But sure, keep having that persecution complex. Like most Alliance players seem to have.

[Deleted]

Why don't YOU play horde? /fist

[schwank05]

I prefer alliance honestly I love Draenei, but my friends all played Horde back in the day so I changed. Now I have 10 85+ lvl characters all on Horde, It is just too costly at this point to faction/ Server change as Alliance is dead on Runetotem-us.

[Nadiru]

Oh, don't be ridiculous.

The Vanilla Horde experience was lacking to say the least.

Also humans have one of the most OP PvP racials in the game.

But sure, keep having that persecution complex. Like most Alliance players seem to have.

Saying someone else has a persecution complex while bringing up something that hasn't been true for two years and hasn't mattered for six. Horde players, ladies and germs.

[Deleted]

The Alliance were the only faction with paladins and I loved paladins since D&D and WC3.

I never forgave Blizzard for giving the Horde better paladins in TBC after the hell we went through in vanilla and after Blizz gave the Horde all the best PVP racials. Seeing saps and stuns fail to land on orcs several times in a row made me stop playing a rogue. Horde rogues never had that problem + they could break fears.

We had a joke in vanilla: The Alliance are mobs for the Horde. It's funny how true it was.