Poll: Are you Horde or Alliance
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I mostly play Alliance partly because my guild is Alliance, but the majority of my characters are horde.
Considering that half the races in the horde joined because the alliance was a bunch of racist punks...
Post Cataclysm I'm expecting a third faction to start up that is fed up with both sides and the 'new leadership'.
Yeah, I've tried playing alliance on multiple occasions. Westfall is definitely up there as one of the most bland zones in the game. Cataclysm brought it up a few notches, but I'd still rather spend my time in ghostlands or even the barrens. My favorites are definitely tauren and blood elves. Gotta love me some horde.
Post Cataclysm I'm expecting a third faction to start up that is fed up with both sides and the 'new leadership'.
Yeah, I've tried playing alliance on multiple occasions. Westfall is definitely up there as one of the most bland zones in the game. Cataclysm brought it up a few notches, but I'd still rather spend my time in ghostlands or even the barrens. My favorites are definitely tauren and blood elves. Gotta love me some horde.
Good point.theguiltyone said:
EDIT: Well, what are now the Eredar are a deviation of what are now the Draenei, not the other way 'round. But I guess that counts anyway.
Decided on alliance way before the game even released. I just liked them better for some reason. After some fiddeling with different classes and builds I went with a human warlock.
Once I seriously got into lvl 70 pvp though I more and more started to wish I was undead. When I was still playing they had that anti-fear racial wich was a HUGE advantage in pvp if you learned to use it wisely. And what did humans get? A short stealth detection boost wich was completely useless. Even with the engineering goggles, felhunter paranoia AND that racial skill on I could still not see rogues coming. Not that it mattered if I did though, they would rip me apart regardless.
A while after I quit they changed the human racial skill to something very similar to the undead anti-fear skill for "balancing reasons" and I was like "wel wel, look who finally had a good look at reality".
And before you ask why human? Because my mind was set on alliance and on a warlock so (back than) it was either human or gnome. I mean come on ^^
Once I seriously got into lvl 70 pvp though I more and more started to wish I was undead. When I was still playing they had that anti-fear racial wich was a HUGE advantage in pvp if you learned to use it wisely. And what did humans get? A short stealth detection boost wich was completely useless. Even with the engineering goggles, felhunter paranoia AND that racial skill on I could still not see rogues coming. Not that it mattered if I did though, they would rip me apart regardless.
A while after I quit they changed the human racial skill to something very similar to the undead anti-fear skill for "balancing reasons" and I was like "wel wel, look who finally had a good look at reality".
And before you ask why human? Because my mind was set on alliance and on a warlock so (back than) it was either human or gnome. I mean come on ^^
Alliance, but I'm my real loyalty is with the Night Elves. The humans tend to be kinda racist dicks, so my love for the alliance isn't all that strong.
never got that far, lvl 10 is when i got bored and stopped, couldn't be bothered to go back, plus, there was like NO ONE around :/ so no way to speed it up, but then even when i was playing the official trail from Blizzard (whom recently sent my an amusing email saying my account was going to be deleted due to inactivity) where they're where lots of people, :/ no one was really nice to new player, one guy actually said over the main chat line how he loved giving 'noobs' the wrong directions, so no real motivation to TRY an get to a higher level.BoredDragon said:That does sound cool. However, the rage problem eases up as you gain abilities to generate it like charge and different shouts. I'm maxed and I don't usually run into rage problems, but it did take me forever to find the right rotationKitsuna10060 said:do not miss understand, i LOVE me some warrior, its the first thing i roll, in anything,
but the 'need more rage' message, for EVERY fight is stupid, why the hell do i need to build a meter to do ANY thing warriorish, (not to mention 'rage' is a berserker thing, not warrior) that is why i think they fucked it all upyou NEED rage to do anything, even against smaller groups, so 70% of the time was was just auto attacking :/
a better way, since you might ask
Moon Guard as well, but last time I tried RP there, Horde was kinda shit. Where's there RP capital? Isn't it usually the Blood Elf one?theguiltyone said:
I guess it depends on your standards and who's around. I'm part of an rp guild in Silvermoon, and in and around there's usually someone you can rp with. Gone out on dungeon raids completely IC. That was a hoot.MaxwellEdison said:
Horde ftw!
I do not play anymore, but when I did myself and friends played on a server where the Horde was in the minority.
Some of my fave memories were of defending Tarren Mill and Crossroads against overwhelming Order hordes!(this was in the early days, when there were no battlegrounds).
Good days XD
I do not play anymore, but when I did myself and friends played on a server where the Horde was in the minority.
Some of my fave memories were of defending Tarren Mill and Crossroads against overwhelming Order hordes!(this was in the early days, when there were no battlegrounds).
Good days XD
I played Alliance. The factions were neat, but really needed to be balanced. Right now I've noticed a major trend for the "evil" or at least "non-traditional" factions to be favored by MMORPG developers, leading to so called "alliance syndrom" affecting the entire genere.
My major concern right now is that since according to some polls I've read like 65% of the player base wants to roll Sith, if I roll Republic on the upcoming "Old Republic Online" I'm going to be at a huge disadvantage. I suppose it certainly doesn't help the situation that they put all this massive effort into the artwork for the Sith and the respective models, where the Republic side is all very bland and generic. Starting with the first trailer where we had Malgus starting the sack of Corsucant it's been noticible that the Jedi were so bland that they might as well all be named "Joe". The trend has continued with massive Sith Badassery even in the "Hope" trailer where you had one Sith taking on both a Republic Trooper and Jedi hero at the same time and doing very well at it, and even in the character class trailers and artwork reveals in general there is no doubt that the bad guys just look far better/cooler.
Not really what the subject is about, but really I expect Sith will be the new Horde, and ORO is going to be another fairly one sided game. I was hoping after what happene with WAR that EA would have learned enough to exercise some oversight here. A lot of us knew that was going to be a train wreck months before it launched, and when you saw the population imbalances between Order and Destruction in the "Road To WAR" launch event the collision had begun in slow motion.
Honestly I think Blizzard not getting their acts together also had a lot to do with that 500k core account bleed off. People were expecting a lot of things to be fixed with that update, and I know that even before the game went down people were pointing out that with the new races Horde got one that has an instant cast blink(rocketjump) that shared a timer with an instant cast DD attack that scaled with leve, a haste bonus, best vender rates, alchemy boost (best overall profession overall), and the abillity to summon a banker NPC to any point in the game. In comparison as the joke goes, Alliance got a race that has the abillity to literally bend over and take it... which is sadly true because that's What Worgen do, an abillity that lets them run a little faster for a couple of seconds.
See, when long standing imbalances exist, the only way to correct them is to boost up the other side until parity is restored. Preferably things need to be balanced beforehand so that is never a factor. Blizzard just never got that in any kind of competitive game balance has to come before pretty much anything...
Ahh well, enough irrelevent ranting. The Horde/Alliance thing just got me going. In the end I'm going to play the side I want to play, and that typically means the good guys as my main side (I do waffle between sides and have a few characters on each, but my main is always a good guy), I just get tired of feeling like I have to work twice as hard to accomplish anything, and then have it mean less when I do.
Too close to release for it to matter, but in hindsight I think they really should have nerfed the coolness of the Sith a bit and kept them a bit down to earth, or at least did something to make the Jedi and their allies seem a bit more interesting. I mean cripes, take a look at the obi-wan reject Jedi in the latest Trooper class vid... he looks almost exactly like the guy who got pwned in the first ORO trailer too (or close to it). I think maybe, just maybe, someone needs to be talking to the art department.
My major concern right now is that since according to some polls I've read like 65% of the player base wants to roll Sith, if I roll Republic on the upcoming "Old Republic Online" I'm going to be at a huge disadvantage. I suppose it certainly doesn't help the situation that they put all this massive effort into the artwork for the Sith and the respective models, where the Republic side is all very bland and generic. Starting with the first trailer where we had Malgus starting the sack of Corsucant it's been noticible that the Jedi were so bland that they might as well all be named "Joe". The trend has continued with massive Sith Badassery even in the "Hope" trailer where you had one Sith taking on both a Republic Trooper and Jedi hero at the same time and doing very well at it, and even in the character class trailers and artwork reveals in general there is no doubt that the bad guys just look far better/cooler.
Not really what the subject is about, but really I expect Sith will be the new Horde, and ORO is going to be another fairly one sided game. I was hoping after what happene with WAR that EA would have learned enough to exercise some oversight here. A lot of us knew that was going to be a train wreck months before it launched, and when you saw the population imbalances between Order and Destruction in the "Road To WAR" launch event the collision had begun in slow motion.
Honestly I think Blizzard not getting their acts together also had a lot to do with that 500k core account bleed off. People were expecting a lot of things to be fixed with that update, and I know that even before the game went down people were pointing out that with the new races Horde got one that has an instant cast blink(rocketjump) that shared a timer with an instant cast DD attack that scaled with leve, a haste bonus, best vender rates, alchemy boost (best overall profession overall), and the abillity to summon a banker NPC to any point in the game. In comparison as the joke goes, Alliance got a race that has the abillity to literally bend over and take it... which is sadly true because that's What Worgen do, an abillity that lets them run a little faster for a couple of seconds.
See, when long standing imbalances exist, the only way to correct them is to boost up the other side until parity is restored. Preferably things need to be balanced beforehand so that is never a factor. Blizzard just never got that in any kind of competitive game balance has to come before pretty much anything...
Ahh well, enough irrelevent ranting. The Horde/Alliance thing just got me going. In the end I'm going to play the side I want to play, and that typically means the good guys as my main side (I do waffle between sides and have a few characters on each, but my main is always a good guy), I just get tired of feeling like I have to work twice as hard to accomplish anything, and then have it mean less when I do.
Too close to release for it to matter, but in hindsight I think they really should have nerfed the coolness of the Sith a bit and kept them a bit down to earth, or at least did something to make the Jedi and their allies seem a bit more interesting. I mean cripes, take a look at the obi-wan reject Jedi in the latest Trooper class vid... he looks almost exactly like the guy who got pwned in the first ORO trailer too (or close to it). I think maybe, just maybe, someone needs to be talking to the art department.
Haven't played in quite a long time now, but when I did play I was more or less Alliance despite a few mid-level Horde alts.
Having been a fan of the original Warcraft games and a fan of story, it was just hard to play as a faction I know only years before were ruthlessly slaughtering cities and peoples essentially for teh lulz, plus I'm a sucker for the pseudo-medieval Europe art style of places like Stormwind. Dwarves are always fun as well!
Having been a fan of the original Warcraft games and a fan of story, it was just hard to play as a faction I know only years before were ruthlessly slaughtering cities and peoples essentially for teh lulz, plus I'm a sucker for the pseudo-medieval Europe art style of places like Stormwind. Dwarves are always fun as well!
Horde, when I used to play. On the server I used the most, that meant being mercilessly curb-stomped in most battlegrounds due to lower numbers. We were a vitriolic minority that would snipe you from cover and then retreat into a cave to exchange grim high-fives.
LOK'TAR OGAR CHILDREN OF THE HORDE! VICTORY OR DEATH!
I just can't stand non-Dwarf Alliance races, they feel to generic fantasy for me. When I started playing Horde were the PvP faction who were outnumbered pretty heavily across the board, and I love being the underdog.
I just can't stand non-Dwarf Alliance races, they feel to generic fantasy for me. When I started playing Horde were the PvP faction who were outnumbered pretty heavily across the board, and I love being the underdog.
