Free to 35, and the standard edition is often randomly free on steam and other places. Due to how the game lets your character level all the 30ish classes at once, you could play an absurdly long time with the 35 limit if you really wanted to.
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Nope no faction changing for me though I have for once found I enjoyed the Alliance story as well. Basically I try to see it through my characters prospective which are varied but boil down weāre loyal to the horde not the present warchief. My warlock is more open to things but sheās a little (ok maybe a lot) deranged and doesnāt care if the world burns sheāll throw gas on the fire. My human pally is disgusted with the horde but Day is kinda ehā¦ Iām stuck here Iāll fight for them so long as they dont go after my people. Touch Quelāthalas or a perfect hair on Lorās head and Iāll send you screaming to the void. Oh and I pretty much disregard most of the war campaign as OOC.
You do realize Sylvanas torched his kingdom and killed his son, with the intent of raising every Gilnean into undeath, right? Just because we joined forces at the broken store doesnāt mean old wounds are healed (as we can so clearly see).
You hate Genn for wanting justice in spite of the broken shore, but donāt hate Sylvanas for blatant genocide in spite of the broken shore?
Teldrassil just makes Genn look righteous.
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No, pretty much Horde for life. Story would never make me faction change since Iāve been playing with the same people on Horde for 10~ years.
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Nope, still Horde main for life. It doesnāt matter how much they trash the Hordeās story, I still love my faction and consider it my home.
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nope! i am gilnean for life. i will never be a slave to sylvanas
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No. Iām a Horde boy. My Death Knight has been Alliance for the past four or five years, but not because I like the Alliance. Itās because the human model is the most dignified when wearing full armor. Thereās no bones sticking out. Thereās no ears or eyebrows.
I donāt really like the Alliance very much outside of Genn and the Dwarves, but Blizzard does what it does with models so whatever I guess.
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You mean Taelia? Thatās not Maisie Williams. Sounds like her though.
Bummer, Aryaās my favorite.
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No, but it made me play the Horde even more. Playing Alliance just feels wrong as a Horde main in a story about faction war.
That said, I do maintain an Alliance alt for the collectables and the āTwo Sides to Every Storyā achievement. I just donāt care for them much.
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I wanted to switch over to the Alliance after the War of Thorns. Honestly the only things keeping me from switching is the cost to buy 6 faction changes and the love I have for my guild despite the fact they drive my sanity and patience into a black hole.
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Just make an alt to experience Drustvar. Drustvar is very cool.
drustvar is the best zone in bfa, especially if you use the inky black potion
Burning Teldrassil made me wish faction changes were cheaper just so I could change all my Alliance toons to Horde.
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Much as I donāt like the current story all of my guilds are Horde and they at the very least play the Horde like itās Thralls Horde. I just donāt read the quest text anymore
Kinda cheating on wow with eso though, if only because I really do love the Elder Scrolls.
Oh my mistake, i meant Meera Reed.
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Iām an Alliance player at heart but I have more Horde alts I care for than Alliance ones. It helps when youāre an rper that can ignore half the story as you make up your own. It also helps when half of my characters are some level of crazy, self serving, and or evil.
WoW has turned me off Night Elves though. Only way I can stomach the narrative is by making mine outcasts.
HOLY CRAP, TAELIAāS MEERA REED!!
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Who?
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Not quite.
I donāt want to leave the Horde. I donāt want to abandon my main that Iāve played since I started WoW. I love my guild and the friends Iāve made Horde-side. And, well, despite how downright awful the story is, I still love the Horde. I care about the Horde races and despite the writersā best efforts, I like the Hordeās cast and premise, malformed as they are currently.
But, Iām not gonna lie, when my guild took a break over the holidays, I got two Alliance characters to max level and there was something relaxing about it. There were certainly moments that made me sigh (Umbric preaching about how heās glad he wonāt be using the Void for the Horde because they can never do anything good, the Forsaken bosses that are happy youāve killed them, that one dwarf NPC in incursions that drives me up the wall). I found myself rolling my eyes a lot when dealing with a good chunk of the NPCs. Shaw was beyond grating. But, it was also kind of nice? To just be able to do quests without NPCs moralizing at you. To do things in game and feel like youāve accomplished something that the story doesnāt immediately take away from you.
And, yeah, clearing that beach of goblins felt good and no one said a thing about how Iād just murdered two-hundred people. I liked being able to just have fun doing dumb quests in an MMO like that.
I canāt say I like the Alliance or any of its races with any of the passion I have for the Horde. I struggle to find any real investment on the Alliance end of things for various reasons. I find the over-saturation of humans (a race Iām very much not interested in) rather stifling. And yetā¦
If my guild had died like I was kind of expecting it to, I was really thinking about whether Iād quit the game or just take a break from the story and actually put effort into finding an Alliance guild that I could enjoy being in and raiding for a bit on my Lightforged instead. Not because I enjoy the Alliance story more, but because it felt like I wasnāt constantly being dragged into story content where I watched characters I used to like become characters I canāt even recognize. Because so much of it didnāt feel like I was waiting for another shoe to drop.
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How do you think Taelia got strong enough to lift that huge mallet of hersā? Dragging Bran around DOES have itsā benefits.
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