We’ve all made the decision. Whether it was on a whim or a well thought out process, we have all chosen a faction in World of Warcraft. Everyone has different reasons as to why they chose to fight for the Horde or the Alliance. For me, my first character was Alliance because all of my college buddies were going Alliance at the time. They did go Alliance when we got the game, but ended up being on a different server (a story for a different time). I actually played through vanilla and some of BC before I leveled a Horde character. For me, there wasn’t really a decision when I first started playing. Since my friends were playing Alliance and I wanted to play with them, it was an easy decision.

As I played more and more and began to learn about the game, I sometimes regretted the decision of rolling Alliance. This was well before the days of faction changes and even transfers, so the only other option was to level another character. That was something that I was not willing to do. Cut to today and faction changes are relatively cheap (or expensive however you feel) and they are easy. This really negates a lot of old arguments as to which faction is better. If you think Blizzard favors a certain faction or if you feel that certain racials are more powerful or even if you just like the look and feel of the other faction, it is painless enough to obtain without needing to level to 80 again.