by mozibake » Thu Dec 03, 2015 10:27 pm
Funny, I'm the opposite. I've never gotten an Alliance character past lvl 20 or so (I have played for ~8 years). I like the Horde aesthetics, and once you learn some of the lore surrounding the Forsaken it becomes easier to sympathize with their whining.
They are doomed to an eternal unlife as a plague ravaged husk, maintaining constant mental discipline lest they fall to "the madness" and lose the one thing they've got left, their conscious minds. A lot of the Undead starting zone quests are about putting down former Forsaken who've re-joined the ranks of the gibbering, mindless undead. Some of them, when they realized they had their minds back, went back and attempted to see their former human families who had survived the war, only to find that they could no longer understand their language, and were chased out or even attacked by their former families who only saw them as monsters.
I think Blizzard handled the two faction system as well as they could have. There's no "right" faction, both are quite morally gray. The Horde deforests the ancient home of the Night Elves in Ashenvale, the Alliance held the Orcs in concentration camps and used them as slave labor.
Funnily enough my Alliance level 20something was my first ever character on retail. For some reason, I decided to reroll Horde around that point and have never changed back. There are retards and there are great guys on both sides. Choosing a faction basically boils down to choosing whose aesthetics, politics, and racials you prefer.
you think it be like it is but it's don't
-jack brack