I’m finding alliance side the average players-to-player interaction seems to be getting better. With fewer loot chasers, we’re left with less elitist and selfish players.
Horde is gaining numbers both for raiding opportunities and because people keep talking about it (rats will abandon a sinking ship) but they also get to collect all the chaff. It’s not a matter of quantity or quality, but if you want quality, you’re going to have to pick through (or stand out against) the quantity.
RP realms seem largely resistant to this migration trend though.
because you go where the community is, everyone who plays, plays horde, people who think hating popular things makes them cool, and masochists play alliance.
Statements like this are ridiculous because Horde was the superior raiding faction as far back as Burning Crusade and Method didn’t even switch until the start of Pandaria. Nor was Method a particularly high ranked guild at the time (even by Alliance standards).
People have short memories. Method being a thing was very recent, and Horde was top dog long before they quit being Alliance.
It’s not about racials; Alliance racials are superior and have been for a while (particularly for M+ where all the teams play Alliance in MDI even if their mains are Horde the rest of the time).
The only people who think it’s because of racials are people who don’t raid at that level – which unfortunately includes most of this forum, which is populated by “experts” who don’t even raid.
Also:
You obviously don’t even know what the Tauren racials are…
yeah, who the wants to cutting edge a trash expac you have to main 5 characters for? BFA isn’t really known as a hard raid expac, it’s your class is trash this patch reroll expansion. Raid cata and tell me what’s up.
I’ve never thought of it this way but you’re totally right. Horde has significantly better diversity when it comes to race choices. Alliance have: humans, purple/blue elves, fat humans, short humans with beards, shorter humans, shorter humans with robot arms and legs, goat people, and humans that turn into furries. Yikes.
worldofwargraphs. com/pve-stats/races, the problem is someone raids a 2.0/10 user score expac that most cutting edge people bailed on before 8.2, starts to think they know everything and forgets there are metrics for racials. Most mythic guilds aren’t even playing retail anymore. I just want the belf heritage armor and the xp buff. then it’s unsub until shadowlands.
I started playing WoW a little over 2 years ago. I chose Night Elf because my preference are elves in general. The more I play, the more I saw disrespect for Night Elves in particular to flat out bashing of Tyrande and Malfurion.
It’s because of how the devs portrayed them. Some of the things that were done to make them look bad. Like when it was supposedly Malfurion that said “Tyrande. Where are you. I need you.” Everyone assumed that was Malfurion saying it. It wasn’t him.
The things that the devs did to make Tyrande and Malfurion look ridiculous and stupid is what destroyed the credibility of the Night Elves.
There were several reasons to faction change/reroll to Horde in the past. All have been nurfed since. Every time this kinda thing happens, it gets much harder to change back.