Aw c'mon Timber. I've played all the races. Love them all I do.

We actually rerolled on Nathrezim some few months back. Some elaborate plan for friends to level up together. Everyone wanted to play gnomes.

I refused. I will NOT play a race that is nothing better than appetizers.

So, in order to join my pals I rolled a female human mage and actually travelled to meet them in the Gnome starting area.

The adventure ended up ill-fated, I got to level 22, which was about 4 or 5 levels higher than any of them got.

A human female, dranai female, or possibly a nelf female are the only races I could stomach playing on alliance side. Sorry. I just hate the aesthetic.

Blood Elfs are just..

I feel the same way. AFter playing a few characters Horde side, I just can't enjoy any of the alliance races, it just doesnt seem right/cool :D

Yeah, it feels like you're committing some horrible atrocity when you roll up an alliance. You quickly dispose of the evidence and vow to never make mention of it to your horde friends.

I play horde out of necessity really. Before WoW, I would mostly choose good aligned characters in my games. But, the state of the alliance side can be so bad that it almost makes you wonder which is good and which is evil. I eventually hated the side so much i didn't want to group with people. When that happens you know you need a change.

Me on the other hand, I can never stomach myself to play as a horde. I can never forgive what the orcs did in WC1 and WC2. Such a mass genocide they did and I don't ever understand why someone would play such race. This include the races that ally with the orcs. It just feel wrong.

Then again, WOW is the only game where I suddenly felt like being zealously overrighteous. I've no problem exterminating human population/civilization in other games. Don't know why. :D

I like your reasons though because they are RP reasons. It shows you are passionate about the lore to the point where it influences your choices in-game.

Oh btw on the original threads subject, the Blood Elves are most definately derived from the Arabian culture. Silvermoon looks like something out of Aladdin. Even the battlemasters are sitting down on those plush cushions!

Remember that the orcs in WC1 and 2 were slaves to the Burning Crusade, just as the Undead were created by the plague in WC3.

The orcs freed themselves, the forsaken undead broke their mindless bonds.... so they are no longer the minions of others.

The outland lore is getting pretty good. I took word back to Thrall that noncorrupted Orcs had withstood the 5 years in outland and still exist. His very people still survive out there, uncorrupted.

Good stuff.

[ 01-18-2007, 04:17 PM: Message edited by: Timber Loftis ]

I think I hate Blood Elves. Timber, they are more Nancyboyish than Night Elves.