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Skipping About Like I Know What I’m Doing

I wasn’t able to connect to my blog last week on my usual machine and it’s working now, so here’s hoping it stays that way!

I’ve been a hardcore Hordie for about four or five years. In that time, the majority of my characters have been Trolls and I’ve found that my ability to play Alliance was very… very limited. My highest Alliance character before the past month or so was a level 15 Gnome Rogue – right now, the highest that I’ve leveled fully as Alliance is a level 32 Dwarf Paladin.

Over the past two weeks I have found myself playing Alliance a little more often, poking at the quests, even faction transferring an underplayed hunter and priest (level 31 and 63) because I am a little unhinged. Three of my Alliance toons are on Thorium Brotherhood, the others are on Moon Guard where I’ve found the atmosphere to be pretty welcoming and the RP to be fascinating to watch. Plus, in my head, TB is “Horde” and MG is “Alliance”. I still have crazy goals for my TB Alliance toons, like Stormwind Exalted for Valeni and Exalted with the Gnomes for Daniil, but they don’t get played very often (maybe once I do some writing for them I’ll be more tempted).

Why did I do this? Because I’ve been getting damned tired and burned out with leveling through Horde zones and quests, quests I’ve repeatedly done since I first rolled Talasha, now Dybo, on Eredar all that time ago. I needed a change.

Overall, standing in the shoes of the other side hasn’t made me like them more than the Horde. I still find that my Trolls have more depth to them, but I’m seeing that Dwarves, Humans, Draenei, Gnomes and Night Elves can all be unique and develop in unusual, unexpected ways – even if some of mine start off rather cliché. Korynna is a slightly rough-and-tumble, serious business tomboyish Technomage; Ailsey is a country girl that believes that she’s destined to do good things and that the world is shiny and awesome.

Will I ever completely migrate to the other side? No. Horde is where the heart is, but once in a while, it’s nice to experience something a little different that I’ve never seen before.

… Also, I’m trying to see how much stuff Ail can solo, and it’s kinda interesting. Prot is OP.

Moon Guard, My Other Mount is a Troll, WHARRGARBL | admin | December 1, 2009 1:48 pm

4 Comments

By Askevar, December 1, 2009 @ 2:04 pm

I’m the opposite – always alliance… always. Never had a horde toon stick. I am working on a Troll dk over on Shadow Council though when ThoBro is down or somesuch.
By Addy, December 2, 2009 @ 5:42 am

I just cannot do alliance. Once in awhile I’ll get another level, maybe two, on my abandoned alts there – but it just way too quickly bores the hell out of me and I run back to my horde babies.

For this reason, I am madly impatient for Cata, just for the change in old world quests and some variation for my little horde alts!
By Verukah, December 2, 2009 @ 11:14 am

I am also the opposite. The highest I’ve ever gotten a Horde character was somewhere in the mid-twenties, I think. And I’ve been playing since vanilla release.

I’ve still got Ailsey on my friends list and I see you popping in and out on MG lately. Someday we shall interact IC, this I vow. /solemnface
By Beau, March 25, 2010 @ 9:36 am

I cant play horde. Never. Ever.