Today's breakfast topic at wow-insider is how did you choose your faction.
I am sure that there will be a lot of reasons why people decided to be who they were, alliance or horde. I can see many taking the "pretty" path while many others took the "evil" path. We all know based on fantasy backgrounds and our own eyes that alliance is the pretty faction and the horde is the evil faction.
Many people in one way or another will say they decided which side to fight on based something along those lines. "I liked the horde because they are the underdog" or "I choose to be a human because it is easier for me to relate to", you get the idea.
For me, the choice of my faction was much more practical. I had many friends that played the game that had been wanting me to join them both on horde and alliance side. So I was not really swayed by them, I could have went either way.
What made me choose my side more than any other factor involved in the decision making process was what I saw when I looked up some stuff about the game. Let it be known I have characters on both sides now but am still more alliance than horde.
The people who play on the horde side are more into player vs player content, at least that is what my initial research about them. The people that play on the alliance are more into the player vs environment content. Being I do not like PvP the choice was made for me. I really never had a decision in it. I will not join the PvP part of the game if I am not into PvP, so alliance it was for me.
Yes, my understanding of how it worked was wrong, but it is still how I came about my decision.
The funny part is all these years later nothing has changed and if someone were to ask me I would sum it up in just a few words, the same words I read a long time ago that made me decide on which faction I would play. If you like PvP roll horde.
It is as simple as that. It had nothing to do with looks. It had nothing to do with story. It had nothing to do with the feeling of being the underdog or the top dog. The faction I play came down to that one line. If you like PvP roll horde. So I rolled alliance.
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ReplyDeleteIf only I did not get a breath bar when going through puddles as a gnome they would be so much better.
DeleteMaybe I should roll a gnome female and wear high heels.
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DeleteI was wondering what the hell that meant. I was figuring that after a few pints of ale I might have understood it better.
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Delete#2 is as English as Andy Murray.
And it's "wae", ye wanker.
(and I totally got it, well done)
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ReplyDeleteI'll go take a look. I rarely check that mail because I do not use it for anything. Sorry. I need to be more attentive to looking there.
DeleteTwo words: Night Elf.
ReplyDeleteThat decided it for me. I had played the RTS games and Night elves were my favorite race.
The wallpaper on whatever my biggest monitor is (currently a 47") has been the female Night Elf from WC3 ever since WC3 came out.
So Alliance was my only option.
Oddly, I don't have any female night elf toons... Hunter and warrior are male night elves and the rogue I played in vanilla was a male night elf as well.
Armor looks good on night elves. I think that is one of the reasons I like them myself. Which is odd because I rarely care about how armor looks on a character, but on a night elf it seems to stand out for me.
DeleteI have a few female night elves. I think 2 female druids and one female hunter. All the others are male however.
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ReplyDeleteThe human reputation thing is their best selling point in my opinion.
DeleteThat was joke, never thought of elves as the drinking race but I can see it in my mind and that makes it all the more humorous.
My first toon was a Dwarf based on historical precedent... whenever I played a computer RPG I'd almost always play a Dwarf Fighter or a Half Elf ... something. Thief, Ranger, would depend on the game. But the Dwarf would have a sword and possibly a shield and I went that way, a sword and board Fury warrior (wasn't quite sure how the dual wield thing would work while carrying a shield but figured I had plenty of time to figure it out). Herbalism/Alchemy professions, of course, since I had to drink a healing potion after pretty much every pull and that was the combo that could manufacture the sweet, sweet Potions of Life Continuity. That toon still has Alchemy to this day, actually, in a bit of an homage to his original design although I swapped out Herbalism for Blacksmithing a while back... the image of a flower-picking Dwarf was a bit too much to take for an end-game toon.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, back on track.
Played the Dwarf on a server where I didn't know anyone to see if I enjoyed the game outside of friends (I figured I wouldn't *always* be playing with other people so Iwanted to experience the worst case scenario... is the game itself fun?).
Enjoyed it a lot aside from the PvP (which I thought was when someone ran in on a mount (!) to steal my herb node... MY NODE... man, it's too bad I can't attack him or something, they should really think about putting that into the game...) so I rolled a couple of Alliance toons on a server that my friends were on, that's still my main server but they're all long gone by now.
After a while (after hitting Alliance level cap) I also created a Horde toon on the server my Dwarf was rolled on. The Dwarf was eventually leveled and transferred over to my main server and that other server now houses my Horde army. Originally I wanted to see the Horde side of things (does it look as evil from within? Not at that point, no, they were mostly just doing what they could to hang in...), then I wanted to see if I could do on that server what I'd done on my main server (pretty much have, just on a somewhat smaller scale).
These days I have a roughly equal number of toons and an almost equal number of levels between the two but I still consider myself to be an Alliance player at heart. It's how I grew up.
I did the alchemy and herbalism on my first character as well for the same reasons. I could not heal so having that herbalism heal (now gone) and the potions was a very attractive option.
DeleteLittle known fact... Lifeblood still heals! :)
DeleteFeel free to call that a heal if you wish, but it is not a heal. That would be like letting a starving man take one lick of a lollipop. It used to really heal. Not great, but not that tiny little thing it does now.
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DeleteI could not help but laugh when I read that. You get me sometimes roo.
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DeleteI've actually heard that one before. I think it is a /silly in game.
DeleteI wanted a male paladin. One that was pretty. Guess what I rolled...
ReplyDeleteBlood elf? No wait, there are no male blood elves. But they are pretty. :)
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