Why do you play the faction you play?

[exou]

I'm curious about this, after reading some threads that have Horde vs Alliance debate in them. I'm aware there's going to be a wide variety of reasons, but I'm really intrigued by the thought process of people picking a faction.

Of course, there's a lot of 'my friends played this faction so I play it', or 'this one was less ugly', 'this one was more badass', et c, but are there any other reasons? Honestly, I picked Alliance years ago because I wanted to play a feral druid, and at the time, only Tauren could be druids and their cat form was ugly as sin. Ever since, however, I've remained Alliance (I couldn't tell you for how many years-- sometime in vanilla is when I started).

Anyone out there who picked their faction based on what they represent, the leaders, et c?

[DeleteThisUser]

Daenerys Targaryen. That's all.

[Sanguiris]

Human is the master race for armor. Also enough with metzen and his orcs

[Lord Pebbleton]

Because dwarven and their awesome, yet overlooked, lore.
(I started off as tauren, though; the only Horde race I can bear. But I didn't like warrior's gameplay, so I made a radical change)

[Sanguiris]

Oberyn martell... ;3

[dope_danny]

In vanilla it was a pretty easy choice. First i made a forsaken, but after leaving the undead zones you run into a lotta horde zones that are just flat barren lands with barely any story. After playing undead in wc3 i always played the uther hero so i rerolled dwarf paladin for the beard-hammer combo and found a leveling experience with better stories, much more varied zones and each race had very interesting stuff to go on. Horde always seen very much "the orc faction, starring others" and things like tauren just had copy pastes of night elf things just because ... reasons?
still got 2 90's on the horde side, but on the whole not a fan of the green klingon experience. Alliance can be pretty bad nowadays with its humans too, but the night elves, dwarves and even the gnomes got more fleshing out from vanilla to wrath than most of the horde did who just remained bit players with little to no development of their own. So instead of hovel X in dustbowl Y i went with the one with castles, mountain forge kindgoms and giant tree cities.

[Astalnar]

I like red color more than I do blue.

[Ciddy]

Two reasons.

1: Dwarves are badasses, and they are meant to be warriors.

2: My real-life friends were playing Alliance when I started, and I wanted to play the same faction.

[taliey]

Because Alliance sucked at PvP, and I liked the aesthetics of Blood Elves.

[Nihilist74]

I don't have a favorite faction. I have favorite races. When it comes to playing paladin, I like my paladins to be either draenai or tauren. I would enjoy it if trolls were allowed to be paladins as well. I like playing draenai and troll when i play monks. I like tauren, troll and draenai warriors and dks. I like to play as tauren, night elf and worgen when i play a druid. I like human and troll when i play rogues. I like forsaken and gnome when i play warlock. I usaully chose a race based on the animation they have when they are attacking or casting a spell.

[Deleted]

Because the only person I know IRL that plays WoW is playing Horde. That's definitely the prime reason.

[Burnick]

For the hordeeee! because red always beats blue.
Also, pandaren

[Antbregante]

For the HODOR!!!

[Thelxi]

I bit the bullet and started playing both factions years ago. Most of it is races really, for example I can't stand any of the Horde druid races so Alliance it is when it comes to druid.

[Anzaman]

Mostly because friends play Alliance.

[MoanaLisa]

I play both factions and have for years. The Horde is more tribal (in both good and bad ways). The Alliance is a little more like medieval city-states. It's an entirely different feel from an RP standpoint.

I like variety so there you go.

[A Chozo]

-My friends already played Horde
-Goblins and Forsaken
-I don't like to play in a ambient that is too similar to the real life (...humans.... dwarfs - short humans.... gnomes - small humans... too similar)

BUT
I don't really dig the whole "more savage than Alliance" looks of the Horde. If the Forsaken were Alliance... But that's impossible.

[Deleted]

I prefer Horde and I used to play Horde, but my friends play Alliance, so in MoP I started playing Alliance nearly full time.

[Lochton]

Daenerys Targaryen. That's all.

Well, if that wasn't a blank answer. Unsure what you mean with that, Reese.

On-Topic: Playing Horde and Alliance, enjoying both sides. Setup nice with a main on each side, a bank on each side and a raid team on each side.

Though, mainly Horde. Originally Alliance side but went Horde when they got their Paladins. Came to my friends there and been mostly a Hordie ever since.

And well, Lor'themar being a badass, Goblins being on Horde and the fact that I called it for Tauren Paladins back in TBC - happily playing them too.



I would have to admit, a big side changer would be Worgen Paladins, haha.

[Darsithis]

My partner, who brought me into the game, was Alliance so I played Alliance. Then I got into raiding and so now I'm kinda stuck as Alliance, really.