For the Horde!

I’ve been Alliance since December 2004.

Actually, that’s a lie. I’ve had my dalliances, with the Horde. I’ve had level 11 Priests, level 14 Warlocks, and once managed to spend a whole couple of weeks Horde-side when I moved to the EU servers.

But, by and large, I’ve been an Alliance player.

Not, it would have to be said, entirely through my own choice.

First time out the gate I really didn’t understand this whole factions thing. And the purple elves looked pretty neat. So the Altette and I made our purple elves. And spent weeks getting to level 12! We finally got to 42 on them in around 5 months. Then stopped playing for an age. Eventually we started again on the US Dark Iron server in time for the Penny-Arcade / PvP webcomic guilds. And since the P-A guys were Alliance, so were we.

When at the tail end of 2005 we rerolled on the EU side we convinced some friends with 60s to come play Horde with us since none of us had done it. It was a blast, we had a steady 5-man party with healers, tanks, the works. It was almost perfect. Except our friends had 60s, in a raiding guild… So they drifted back to their old toons, and since it was a PVP server if we wanted to play with them, we had to go Alliance if we wanted to be on that server. So back to Alliance we went, and we both got our first, second and third 70s on The Maelstrom (EU) Alliance side.

But part of me just likes the Horde.

I don’t know why. Maybe it’s the deceitful Forsaken skulking around, maybe it’s the architecture of Orgrimmar, maybe it’s the tranquility of Mulgore… I just enjoy playing Horde a lot, even though I know it’s the same game. So I’m back Horde-side in my spare time levelling my Druid very casually, and playing lowbie Blood Elves with the missus (who dislikes Shaman, or thinks she does). I’m also having a lot of fun, and I’m finally starting to understand Feral as a levelling spec. And it’s great to be doing quests I have never done before too!