Something... fascinating

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So, this isn’t a complaint, just sharing of an observation.

I ended up on the EU forums and, thanks to not having any characters on any EU server, can’t reply to anything.

What I noticed, from an 8d old post, was that a new player had rolled up an alliance toon, made it to lv18 easily enough, but couldn’t get past a couple of quests or get help with them in-game.

The funny thing, to me, was that when s/he came to the forums to ask for help, they were helped by nothing but Horde players.

That is something I’ve noticed in-game. That “sense of community” people complain about not finding has, in my experience, been found mostly on the Horde side. This is especially so on servers with a low Horde to Alliance ratio.

This isn’t a “ha! Horde is better than Alliance” comment, either. Most of my characters have been alliance, up until this month actually. I’ve found the community to be more helpful and seem more relaxed on the Horde side of things. Dungeon queues are shorter (even for a mage), complete strangers actually work together on them, freely and without issue, help in the over world actually exists, and from the little PVP I did (back in the BC day): backup exists and is swift!

I really don’t care for Sylvanas, but Thrall, Vol’jin, and the post-BfA council are all top notch, and seemingly more even-tempered than the human-lead alliance (until post-BfA Anduin).

If there’s one thing I’d change: at least one more racial option for druids… but that’s not a deal-breaker!

Have fun and take care, and maybe I’ll see you in a dungeon crawl someday!

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I’ve found Alliance to be very non-social. Especially on Stormrage. It wasn’t like that a few years ago. So now I’m leveling a Horde on Thrall… but it’s starting to feel as equally non-social. I feel like that’s just the game now.
Everyone probably uses Discord. :roll_eyes: :woman_facepalming:

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The same people are on both sides of the factions.

This idea that one side has better people than others is just dumb.

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I never said one side had “better people”. Easy there, Sea Biscuit. LOL

I just noticed there’s more interaction, and general friendliness on my Horde excursions than on the Alliance ones.

The dungeon runs on Alliance are just… quieter and less overall cooperative than taking a lackey from your class hall in Legion.

On Alindrian there, when I was running Gnomeragon with some complete strangers, one player called “hold up” and not only did everyone stop, but we went back and sort of posted up around them… all without anyone saying to do so. It just happened.

Alliance? Not a chance (on Stormrage, anyway). Ran that same dungeon as a healer and the d@&$! tank seemed obsessed with hopping around like an idiot and running off to the next pack before the current one was even dead, and right out of range just before my heal went off on him. That was pretty much the standard when it came to running dungeons on my alliance toons. I’d have to say something to them to (it seemed) remind them that we weren’t NPCs and had to gather crap, too, and that running off like an indigent wasn’t going to fly (constant pulls, mentioned I needed to drink, most pauses, idiot tank just barreled on along, then the rest followed. Tank died and got to walk his butt back).

It’s just weird. Not often than not, better groups were found on the horde side, than on Alliance.

And it’s not the same people on both… you’re not running around playing two toons on two accounts at the same time are you? No, you’re not. But you’re right about the “people” part: people play both sides, but it’s not the same caliber of people, generally and unfortunately.

The alliance looks more inviting to new players, I’d wager, and they’re not that great at the “team-player” aspect of dungeon runs.

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This is just another myth. Players are players. He happened to find better people on the forums who happen to play Horde.

I’ve played Alliance and Horde on multiple servers. I’ve found people who are helpful and people who outright ignore you like you’re not worth their time on both sides.

This is just a glorified “Alliance has more people who don’t seem good at the game or aren’t into it” post disguised as “fascinating”.

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I mean my forum character has no bearing on my faction loyalty.

I play alliance just as much as horde. Good to know EU is helping new players though.

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I play both, and most people are equally nice IMO.

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This was a pretty big part of what killed the social aspect of the game for me.

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Ok there, bucko.

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From my experience, RP servers have a lot friendlier players than non-RP servers, regardless of faction.

On Wyrmrest (my Horde sever), you obviously have the random RP in Orgrimmar and Silvermoon, but there’s also a lot of friendly chatter when it comes to looking at each others’ trans mogs or discussing RP stories.

Same deal when running dungeons on my Moon Guard (Alliance server) characters, I ended up with someone where we just kept requeing together because we just wanted to keep talking. Both from Moon Guard, and any time we got another Moon Guardian to join our group they chimed in.

I’m 100% biased, but the community thrives pretty well on the two big RP servers at least.

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It’s literally not what you think. There’s helpful people on both sides, for sure. I’m literally just sharing something I’ve observed on my server since returning to the game. When I left ten years go, it was about the same on both Alliance and Horde.

And the players I found on Horde that were more “helpful” was IN-GAME, not on the forums.