What faction will you be playing on launch?

[Mackee95]

There was already a poll with both race and classes, posted here on the forum:
http://vote.pollcode.com/51379343

The thread on the forum:
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=301&hilit=poll

[Grim]

This last test gave me exactly the opposite impression. When I logged in first, around 10:30pm gmt+1, there were only 47 hordes, everyone else up to the ~160 people online at that time was alliance. Considering alliance consists of all/mostly US guilds/players, and horde EU, this timeframe + friday evening, not very surprising.

However, when the server launches next week, if the situation remains the same, this might cause problems on the PvP scene. And we all know, a server without fluent PvP kinda gets boring very fast.

[Moebius]

well with horde its usually more casual players who want to be scary badass undead rogues or big kid taurens and ugly monster orcs. these attract kids or players who think its novel to be them (noobs)

but alliance has mature characters to play so usually good raiding guilds go there

I didn't play Vanilla but wasn't it the bloodelves that brought kids to the horde?

[Stormreaver]

well with horde its usually more casual players who want to be scary badass undead rogues or big kid taurens and ugly monster orcs. these attract kids or players who think its novel to be them (noobs)

but alliance has mature characters to play so usually good raiding guilds go there

lol thats such a childish statement, there is all kinds of people on both sides

[Moebius]

That's true. But some people told me that before TBC there was a certain difference noticable between horde and alliance players and that Blizzard balanced it out with the new races.

[Hatson]

By "balancing it out", they also homogenized the game.
That's where the homogenization started as a prime example, at least. And only got worse from there.
I'm not going to write another 2 page essay on why that's an awful trend, but let's just say at first I thought it was neat, then later realized what it had started and led to.

[nujabes]

well with horde its usually more casual players who want to be scary badass undead rogues or big kid taurens and ugly monster orcs. these attract kids or players who think its novel to be them (noobs)

but alliance has mature characters to play so usually good raiding guilds go there

Alliance faction has the better tools for PvE and that's why PvE guilds tend to prefer that faction. Paladins specifically are what makes Alliance bettter. They're amazing, maybe even a little bit too strong in Naxxramas. It's of course 100% possible to be a successful Horde end-game raiding guild, but Alliance has higher quality of life. Warlocks for example generate way less threat and you can save other people and yourself with Paladin shields. Tremor totem is great, but it's outclassed by Fear Ward for PvE.

[DrunkenEnvy]

Alliance is always filled with terrible social anxiety players, what are you going on about

[James Goblin]

Talking about silly "conclusions", one of my first impressions back in the day was that mostly kids are choosing Aliance (Because "who else could be able to play humans?"). Maybe I was wrong?

[Moebius]

Humans are fine in my opinion. They have nice towns too

But who would want to fight alongside gnomes? I always thought if gnomes weren't in the game from the start but came with an expansion, the reaction would probably be the same as it was with pandas