For the record, I play Horde and Alliance. So, this isn’t a “blood and thunder” pro faction post. I just noticed in this new expansion specifically since i decided to main my Horde Spriest, there is a ridiculously vast difference of Alli Vs. Horde players. At least out in World PvP and BGs, it’s at the point where Horde can barely fill 10-15 players in most BGs in addition to getting rolled on constantly. What are the splits? 70/30 alli vs horde players in totality? And why is this? I feel like I’m missing something and I feel like the Horde always had a strong representation out there in general but in more recent expansions too. From a PvP perspective, I know the Alliance have stronger racials but I feel that doesn’t justify the significant lack of Horde players. Or does it? Anyone else feeling this or seeing this out there?
It’s probably not any one thing. Player perception of racials contribute, sure. People change factions to do queued content with friends/guildies because, for whatever reason, Blizz hasn’t allowed cross-faction queueing. There are also plenty bad players just looking for easy wins that will faction change for an advantage in bg’s. Get enough of them going Alliance and the win/lose ratio will gradually get more balanced.
Very true. I can see this happening via flip flopping but still, it just surprises me how significant the difference is. Even trade chat/gen chat, pretty silent on the Horde side. I hop on Alli and it’s blowing up. Just surprised and wanted to see if I missed a memo or something
horde players often que as alliance in pvp cause horde almost ALWAYS gets **** on
Yes of course I play Horde. I prefer the races over alliance for the most part.
I’m not sure there’s any single reason.
For the majority of the game’s history, Horde has been the majority.
Lots of people have given different reasons for why THAT was the case:
More interesting/varied races; Friends already played horde; world pvp is safer with the majority; Goblins/Blood elves are GOAT; Thrall was the “main character” for a while; etc.
But since the faction was has been put on the back burner and is kinda simmering without purpose at the moment, we’ve seen a shift towards an alliance majority and - in some realms - a supermajority.
I can only speculate why
Diehard fans prefer alliance races? Void Elves? Sick of horde always being the “bad guys”? Sylvanas’ descent into character-arc purgatory killed a lot of player’s interest in the undead faction? Fair-weather horde players switching to alliance to be on the new majority?
Time will tell if things even out, or bounce back and forth, going forward.
Horde are smelly
cows
dead people
elves (too much perfume)
i cant imagine trolls, goblins or orcs smell real great either
I’m too old for pvp. I play horde, but stopped pvping.
Honestly, I hate Org. Too big, everything is too spread apart and it looks so…ugly.
I used to only play horde, but with the faction restriction removed on grouping together I now play whatever race I want for the class. Leveled up like 27 classes in remix and another 15 or so in the pre patch so many to choose from lol
Could have sworn a mass amount of players said that the humans were ugly.
Well TWW and the last 4 expansions have been for the alliance, and alliance have had flat out OP racials the entire time
People realizing current devs don’t care about horde at all and don’t even pretend otherwise
I think there are a few reasons. For so long the game was heavily horde skewed due to overpowered racials. As more people go horde due to these racials, it gets harder to find raid groups/guilds/arena partners on alliance. This caused even more people to go horde for a long time.
Now that racials have changed, with Night Elf having the best racials for many classes in pvp, and Dwarf/Dark Iron Dwarf and Human also being strong, people are switching back. People that don’t take pvp seriously or care that much will just stay horde, people that want to tryhard and min/max pvp are all swapping alliance.
I think there is also an element of people being sick of feeling forced to play horde for 3 expansions in a row. Now that you can cross faction queue, racials are now better on alliance, the pendulum is swinging the other way.
When I’m bging on horde my team will have an average honor level of about 100, alliance average is often 300+ with some into the 1000s. To make things worse, many of the “serious” alliance pvpers are premading bgs and making groups in world pvp. I have characters on both factions and my win rate is noticeably higher on alliance.
tldr: alliance has better pvp racials now, most serious pvpers go alliance especially now that past downsides like dungeon/arena grouping/raiding are now gone.
I play Horde ( I realize the irony of posting this on my Alliance character but I promise, I do play Horde!)
This is my Feral and then I play a Troll Druid as Resto
you’ve ousted yourself alliance spy! i’ve got my eye on you…
There is no Horde. Just Alliance lite.
Thats actually just how its been for a long while.
Horde dominates in endgame mythic and raiding. Not much else far as I can tell.
Nah. I like pretty things.
Dam I wish I could post gifs…
I don’t know anything about Zul’jin… is that a Horde server?
Is it a big server?
I have a bunch of characters on Moon Guard and Horde is dead but for my characters on Area 52, Horde is all I see.