Aliance vs. Horde

So I thought I'll share some of my interests with you. Specifically World of Warcraft. So I play a worgen death knight as my main under a nickname Hydero on Drak'thul-EU.

(If you don't play WoW and you don't plan to, you should stop reading right now, 'cause you probably won't understand or care about what I write next.)

So... I've been playing for alliance for about 2 years now. I've been playing WoW since vanilla and I was playing orc hunter back then for a few years. You might be wondering why I switched sides. First of all I'd say "Cause I wanted to experience the other side of it all." and "After all those years it feels all the same to me." But  that would be a lie. I switched sides 'cause I remember what it was like starting to play HORDE back in a day. That's the truth.

Let me explain. Back in a day playing for the horde felt like being the underdog. Everybody was playing aliance. Every last one of those 'heroes' was playing aliance. Why? Because aliance was good and horde was evil. I didn't play horde because it was evil. I played horde because I was not evil. I didn't believe horde was evil. C'mon I played Warcraft 3 (as well as Warcraft 1 and 2 and expansion for War2 along with all Blizzard games back then), I KNOW horde is not evil. They were just misunderstood. And I don't mean that in emotional (pussy) kind of way. I didn't care if I was misunderstood or not (say whatever you want but you choose your character and alliegence based on your own goals, priorities, feelings, etc. in real life as well as in virtual one). I chose it because I knew I felt like I was doing the right things and I stood by those decision, even though everybody else seen those decisions as wrong. But it's just a matter of perspective. Everybody thinks that his way is the right one.

Most of you don't remember vanilla as it used to be. Aliance was strong in number. Horde was weak in numbers but mostly far more skilled/experienced. There were guys who played horde because they were 'evil' and didn't know a thing about Warcraft and all of its lore. I placed myself higher by saying I chose the horde for all the good stuff. Stuff like honor, loyalty, strength, going against all odds. But at the end of a day you just release no matter which side you play you are playing for the good guys. If you're playing for the aliance, you think of the horde as brutes and savages with no greater goal than just killing innocents. I you're playing for the horde, you're just frustrated. "How in the hell can those aliance hypocrates call themselves righteous and call us the beasts, the monsters, after all they have done." You could always feel the hate Between the aliance and the horde. So pure. Skirmishes all over the world between the factions. And the hate united the heroes of Azeroth. Heroes on both sides of the conflict.

Strong base for each of the factions stayed strong for years. Through vanilla and the burning crusade. My 'For the Horde!' spirit stayed strong even in Wrath of the Lich King. At least in the beginning of the expansion. After unvoluntary break caused by old hardware and coming of Ulduar raid (1fps in raid) I came back. Few months have passed. some of my friends stoped playing and some of them moved on. Once one of the best 'huntards' on realm I was treated like just a memory of the past. Horde ranks swelled. Tons of new heroes to take arms against the worst villains and the aliance scum. But all I really saw were people playing for the horde with only one thought in mind.

'HORDE IS KEWL!'


I was like 'I don't want to play with people, who play for my faction just because all they friends think it rocks.' I made this faction rock with all the ELITE old school heroes of the horde. I started as the underdog, getting camped in Nesigwary camp by groups of high level aliance dogs why still learning the ropes. I was on the frontier of the most epic battles and I was the one of a few crying 'For the horde!' before it became a phenomenom. AND I want be the one playing with all this new leeches of past glories won by others.

So I switched sides. I remember when there was balance on my realm. 50:50 aliance vs. horde. I was reborn as a human death knight but the world was twisted by people who wanted to be in. The balance was gone. For every aliance hero there where 10 horde grunts, who didn't know anything about honor or a fair fight. "YOU TEN LEVEL. WE TEN. FAIR!"

I didn't complain. I am the underdog once again. I crave the challenge and I will pave my path to the top with skulls of my enemies... once again.