Ben pointed me in the right direction when it came down to what realm (server) I should go to, so Defias Brotherhood was the one for me - a PVPRP (Player VS Player Role-play, just in case you didn't know). But there was barely any PvP. I even saw a Gnome on a dragon flying and parking his butt in Orgrimmar, and he had PvP disabled! What the Hell? Sure he was Lv.85 but I still wanted to fight him at Lv.40.
Jorrok in his early stages. SAXTON, HAAAAAAAAALE!
So myself and Ben had gotten to around Lv.40 in three days, which, on my Night Elf Druid (in Magtheridon), took three months to do! Jorrok is currently nearing Lv.60 after nearly a week of playing, and he's looking forward to the WOTLK (Wrath of the Lich King) DLC.
I've never really been a Horde player though. I mean, my first ever character was a Human Warrior, and the my skill with melee just dropped drastically. So then I decided to be a Night Elf Druid (a healer/shape-shifter/spells hybrid), but I kept getting the "FFS Healer!" abuse and what-not, and to top it all off, I'd lost my best healing spell, which had to be re-unlocked at Lv.78. Instead it was replaced by a really bad one, and that's when I gave up completely.
I have a long history with the Alliance - I've had several Human characters (Priest, Paladin, Warrior), then I tried Dwarves (mainly Hunters, for their increased crit-chance with guns), and then Draenei (which didn't work out well). I'd also tried Gnomes, but they have very few classes to play as, and weren't that exciting. I'll give them credit for the nice starter's area though.
But the Horde I didn't entirely like. My first experience was with a Tauren, and that didn't go too well. I was a Paladin, and it seems that nobody likes Tauren Paladins. And to be honest, neither did I. So I stopped playing him, and decided to get out of the "Pallyz r OP, nerf naow!" business quickly.
Then along came the Forsaken (Undead), which, although had a easy starter area, I got bored of it very quickly. So it was either Blood Elves or Orcs. I tried a BE, and boy was it boring. OK, it was easy enough, and rather interesting at first. But everytime I see that starter's area, I feel physically sick.
The Orc didn't last 30 seconds, so it was back to the Alliance. Several weeks later, I was back to the Orc Hunter, Wanza, and I'd reached a Lv.15 Beast Mastery Hunter. It was pretty awesome, and now it's even awesome-er as a Lv.56 one!
So it's been a long and bumpy ride through the choices made in my WoW career, but I'm still slowly but surely pushing along towards the Horde side. They have more difficult choices to make, and when you choose one of their races, you feel that it's the most important one, in these difficult times. The Horde is on the verge of tearing itself apart, and that's what makes playing one particular race more exciting.
If you wanna find me on Defias Brotherhood, feel free to add me as a friend. The name's Jorrok, and I'm an Orc Hunter.
