Well, in my opinion, I believe the Alliance to be better, it’s simply a matter of reading into the fluff, the Human kingdoms have so much lore, the Night Elves fluff is simply outstanding, and the Dwarfs have the kind of lore that makes you wonder when you’ve read it, how they were actually brought to be. I must say though, the Horde lore is simply amazing as well, and I have played the horde since I started playing the game 5 years ago and all my characters are on the horde, however, for me the Horde lacks something in the way that it is run and the architecture, there’s just something about the Alliance that appeals more to me than the horde

Wow, I love my baby murloc! He makes this super weird sund like ullulululul or somethin… FOR THE ALLIANCE!!! I often like to play as a warlock or a hunter becuz i have a pet to save my butt. I’m a level 47 paladin! They kick ass!

jesus h christ. you guys are harsh on alliance/humans.

i actually play horde, 53 undead rogue and a 23 orc warrior; however, when i first started i made a human and that was simply because of paladin. before blood elf the only way to get paladin was human. and face it, paladins kick major ass.

Very good blog, however there now will be a chance to play the Alliance, the Worgen have a mysterious lore opened up now with the upcoming expansion. I think this is very interesting to experience now that the Alliance has a “savage” or “monstrous” looking like race and would bring a lot of attention. I guess that’s just not too bad it about it because like you said, the “bad side” has their own lore and even if they do, the Alliance faction also has their story up on their own races. Not to aside, there could be other traits as to what each faction has, for example Horde sides to be more fierce and honorable and competitive in such while the Alliance temps to be more of an loyal and or something like luxurious with its races and more like Role Playing faction which there also are people who go along with that type of game play.

So, in overall, the sides have their differences and balances. Mainly it depends on what you think its best and what suits you. (basically Horde for me because of my friends want to be fierce and the colors and Alliance too because of other friends and i want to be on a good side haha).

@ John:

John, that’s what I meant. When you play Alliance then Horde obviously seems like the bad guys. When you play Horde, your people seem to be the good guys and Alliance seems evil. In other words, there is no inherently good or inherently evil side in the game. It’s all about perspective.

I was really commenting on the way Blizzard made the setting to reflect this. Ganking is a fact of life on both sides – there will always be groups of high level players running into starting towns of the opposing faction killing NPC’s and causing trouble. It’s an MMO, no? That’s sort of what happens in these types of games. WoW sort of puts it in the context of two opposing factions, neither of which is inherently evil.

not to be meen about than maby that was just in my server (Jedear) but if u have any tips about being a horde write

Dude it mite be my server but horde raided our towns I got ganked by them like a 1.000 times lol but I ben to horde terrortory taming anmails ans stuff but as long their a highter lvl or a pally they will gank you this if from my expirence of a lvl 63 hunter so dont talk about the alince cuz i think the same way about ur blog but it is talkin about alince

I’m a big fan of the Alliance many because of the night elves. their just fun to play.

Yeah, Barrens is always “interesting”. That’s what I call home btw. Both my Tauren and my Troll chill out in these parts. Undead area is cool, but when I’m there I feel like I’m far, far away from home. :P

Oh, and I have yet to see Blood Elf starting area. I’m not even sure if one can get there without the Burning Crusade extension.

Btw, is anyone here on Kirin Tor? Lets team up, or guild up or something.

Once again I play Redmanetusk Horde side and Mizumat Alliance side (no armory link since it that character is like level 7 or something).

@Luke:
Once you are done with Crossroads, it might be handy to change your hearthstone to the inn in the Lower City of Shattrath (Outlands). You will need to get a higher level “friend” to open a port to Shat for you. Shat has free ports to all four major Horde cities – UC, Org, TB, and Silvermoon. That way, you can port from place to place without running or using a Flight Path.

I would recommend waiting until after XR since most of your current quests will be there.

Talking about classes in general…the forums on http://www.worldofwarcraft for each class have varying degrees of usefulness. The lock forum has a couple of great guides – one even goes into detail about which talents you should pick and why or why not. However, the rogue forum sucks. I have never checked out the hunter forum, but it could be helpful.