Playing both factions at the same time?

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Anyone here play both factions? I’m looking to give the alliance a try to unlock their allied races and to experience the ally side for once. I’m just worried about the grind required to get the allied races and of course I want to make sure I don’t cause burnout. Does anyone have experience playing both sides and can give me tips?

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Legion, sure did. Bfa? Well I’ve done the intro for the alliance. Does that count?

Anyway my friend and I are going to bust out some alliance characters. I’ll have a 120 soon enough.

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I like playing both sides. I’ve played mostly Horde this expansion, but on Alliance atm.

Seeing the story unfold from the perception of both factions is interesting to me.

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I play both sides. It’s easier to level an opposite faction alt this time around since you’re getting a different story, so it’s not as boring. I still haven’t finished all the Alliance story available to me yet (I have 120 Alliance character)

Now I alternate between focusing on my Horde or Alliance character, so when I get bored of one I switch to the other. It’s interesting visiting a zone and realizing “oh this time I’m the enemy, I need to take a different path.” They’re different classes, too, which helps avoid the burnout.

I feel like BfA has been a good expansion to be working both sides with the slightly different content for each :smiley:

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I did play both sides have all allied races and now stopped playing! I’d say play with a friend mess around on ally play something you are not use to challenge yourself!

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With a handful of exceptions (mostly Tortollan or one-off quests), both sides actually have completely separate quest chains this expansion. It’s actually kind of refreshing, and I do suggest playing both sides to see it all play out.

This is especially true of the war campaign quests where your characters on both sides apparently just keep missing each other.

The only oddball is the Brennadam attack, which popped up on my Alliance as I got there and I was like, wait, what? Horde did what in the what now? But apparently that was shoved in last minute which explains a lot.

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That’s one thing I’m looking forward to is experiencing the BFA zones on the ally side. Glad to hear that you are enjoying it. Have you had trouble with getting rep for the allied races?

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To be honest, I haven’t been trying to grind out that rep, I’ve just been having fun playing at my own pace. Right now my Ally main is at revered for all the factions and I don’t feel I’ve been playing her all that much. My Horde character’s exalted. I’m a very casual player who doesn’t care if I miss emissaries and only occasionally remembers to hit up the reputation follower missions.

I’m in no rush to unlock races and will get there when I get there.

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my daughter is playing the horde side, Im busy with Hesttia for the first time in years I can do all the quests, Illidan was always a horde heavy realm until we could switch off

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I first leveled the horde, then I started on the alliance.

I’m not interested in the gear grind, so it’s fun to see the other side. While I’m only like 115 in the alliance side, and this far have really enjoyed the questing more than the horde.

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I was thinking of taking the same approach. As much as I want to play a one of the new allied races (really want to try dark iron), I can’t see myself grinding rep outside the daily emissary and war campaign/Island expedition cap each week. This should hopefully prevent burnout which is what I’m trying to avoid.

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No! Don’t turn your back on the Horde. Don’t become a traitor like Saurfang! You’ll regret I promise you! Don’t you dare go Alliance.

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I played both sides and there are good and bad points to each. Nazmir for Horde and Stormsong for Alliance are the bad zones. Drustvar and Voldun are the good ones.

:cookie:

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I second this.

What’s also nice about both sides is that the raids are getting more faction-specific canonically. E.g. the Horde canonically took care of Uldir since it’s in their backyard. Kinda like how Chronicle made it so the Alliance beat Onyxia and the Horde beat Nefarian in canon. Having toons on both sides let you see those kinds of victories in the current content “as intended.”

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I do, my main is horde but working on unlocking ally allied races

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I used to play both sides because my son played Alliance now I just focus on Horde which is my preference I don’t have time to play on both even though both story lines are awesome! For the Horde!

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nazmir best zone, little noam. i do it on all my alts and then voldun. even though i HATE voldun. -.-

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I play both. It is a nice change of pace from time to time.

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I play both sides and just unlocked my mag’har yesterday. The rep was not too bad to grind. I mostly did invasions and the war campaign and finished the last 2000 rep I needed with dailies.

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If you’re a whole-game-player, you play the whole game. Playing one faction is half of the story and half of the unique stuffs you can get.

People who complain about having nothing to do aren’t real rpgamers.