Blizzard Bias towards AllianceFollow

Ditto.

Ummm, wtf? How the heck is that supposed to happen? If someone sees us and we shadowmeld, wow, big deal, they'll just move to the place that we were in and do some aoe and get us out. If in combat shadowmeld doesn't do anything. And right before combat it is useless too. The ONLY thing Shadowmeld is good for, is turning it on when you have to go AFK. Or Drink + Shadowmeld so you will be able to safely drink your mana back.

Seriously, "Shadowmeld is a brutal defensive ability", how did you come up with this? -_-

Not trying to flame here, it's just that what you said makes no sense at all. Please explain what you meant in detail.

alright, I read about 3/4 of the thread and now I am deciding to chime in. I play 3 characters mainly-Troll/hunter, Blood elf/mage, Draenei/shaman. now the differences I have noticed so far(I only started playing about a month ago myself, though I have been with the series of strategy games since one and an active rp player since I was little, so I figured what to expect), is transportation; horde has a lot easier time transporting, tried to get my draenei to stormwind to do west fall when she became lvl ten, spent multiple hours running it(menthil to loch mor was the hardest part of it). Another difference I have noticed is that the hordes variety in mood settings is vastly different where as the alliance has more thematic towards one setting(but many variations of this setting, this is just the roleplayer in me that cares, not sure that anyone else does). Now I play the horde more, mainly because the players in the area seem to be more enjoyable to me(no random naked dance parties, and alot less of the "look at me i'm seeking attention" attitude) I mean no offense to alliance players, but it just seems like the horde at my level take the game more like an rp rather than just an online game. I noticed the problems with the booty bay ah myself, personally I would love to get some of the alliance based weapons for my troll, but that wont happen until my shammy is higher lvl. I am planning on holding on to some ally stuff for my troll, and just pray it doesnt get eaten in the booty bay ah when I try to auction it to my troll.

Well that was a bit more long winded than i intended so I will just leave it there for now

Borkin knows what I am talking about.
I "come up" with that after getting charged/aim shotted and even holy fired or mind blasted out of thin air. And even if people see you stealth, not every class has a distance AoE attack they can use to get you before you get them.
We all know what a big advantage getting the "jump" on an enemy can give, if you have not figured out how to effectively use your racial to do this it is sure not my problem, or the racials problem for that matter.
[yeah, you alliance should seriously learn to minimally use your racials before you complain they are a crap compared to others]


And about SM, the thing is it is not one but FOUR instances, all of them of the similar level range, and that is exactly why there are so many nice things people want in there.


Sure there are small imbalances but that only makes sense, and whenever you filled pissed because "those guys in horde/alliance get this cool and useful xxxxxx" you should know that there will sure be another thing at some point where your faction gets something better off than them, and thats that.

As a response to that, one thing that is very well written into the game is the fact that, though they both see the other as the enemy(even with a common enemy), they both have bonds though very loose and both are in their own way the good guy and other ways the bad guy. The only villians truly in the game are the ones that no one can choose. Even if you go back through the history of warcraft, in the first two it was decided that the orcs were being controlled(or maybe there is a better way to put it)by the evil that is the burning legion, even then, when 3 finally came out, it was put out that the scourge and the burning legion were the real villians in all of this. It was an orc ending at the end not an ally. But truth be there are no real "bad guys" to play.

Another comparison would be klingons to federation if you would

just to give you a heads up. SM. you take 12-18 min for 1 person to reach there from southshore. as the other person said, just run past sfk or swim.

Uldamine. you have to run from alterac. takes 28-40+ min to run there. you run south through wetlands, then loch mordan, then there. will definately want to check out the flight path there if you ever have the chance pre 40. it's only one instance and one of the quest chains you have to go in roughly 2-3 times to get all the gems for the necklace.

lowbe travelling to differnt starting locations.... does the deeprun train mean anything to you? thunder buff to undercity runs through barrens then take the airship. darkshore to stormwind runs through wetlands. and loch mordan + dwarf starting place, + deeprun train. pre teens I'd say forget it. after 14 or so it's easy just follow the road.

recipies... emm beer blasted pork ribs is not an allied only recipe? or crunchy crab sticks? (spider legs)

Territories. The only hord controlled territories are.
1. starting locations,
2. silverpine forest.

all others I've seen allied rush up and gank lowbies before so I don't really consider them hord controlled.

Two words: Fear Ward.