A Brand New World

I've decided to try my hand at leveling Horde on a new server...a PvP server. There's a lot of reasons behind this decision: the first being that my Alliance guild has fallen into a sad state of inactivity. The second reason is that I can't justify spending $60 to transfer my beloved druid over to another server and change faction.

Now, I've gone and created a few toons on this new server. I currently have a level 60 Blood Elf Death Knight, a Level 6 Tauren Druid (male, because the female tauren annoy me...), and a level 10 or so Blood Elf Priest. Obviously I haven't really been grinding too hard, since each of those toons is such a low-ish level. I'm keeping the death knight there as a source of funding for my new druid. I think eventually I'll grind her to 80, but I'm really not sure just yet.

The first thing I've learned is that I keep forgetting that I'm horde on a PvP server. Well, I guess I forget that I'm on a PvP server in general...but I need to keep in mind that when I see a level 80 Draenei paladin, it's probably not the best idea to go and wave to him. He didn't end up killing me because I managed to get away from him, but it was sort of a shock to just be hanging out and BLAMMO- getting attacked. It was definitely an eye opener, and I realized I'm really going to have to learn to PvP.

The second thing I've learned is that I'm lost. I've now leveled 2 Alliance characters through outlands, and I'm pretty accustomed to the quests that are available- where to pick them up and turn them in and what I need to do to finish the zone really quickly.

Being horde means new places to pick up quests and new places I'll have to call home. It also means I'll have to learn about the Horde cities now. I went to Undercity on my Death Knight to buy some bags for my new druid and had NO idea where the Auctioneer was. I had to switch my tracking to Auctioneer in order to find them. It was sad. Really sad. I didn't want to ask for help because honestly, I didn't feel like getting laughed at. It's a crazy new world.

I've found that Horde players really are no different than Alliance players, in that there are still tanks that aren't that great and healers that call them out on it...viciously. Thank goodness I'm not a tank, right? Well, for now. I think my up and coming druid is going to level as a tank so that I can instance grind while I'm questing. Tanks seem to be few and far between even for horde.

I also found that when I'm on my horde toons, I miss my Alliance friends a lot. That's the downfall to waiting nearly 3 years to level any horde toons. I've made so many friends on my journeys while leveling Alliance...it's hard to turn my back on them and go horde. That's another big reason I'm just leaving my Alliance toons where they are on Durotan. I still intend to try to raid on my Alliance 80's and hang out with my Durotan friends. The Horde toons, for now, are sort of a side project. I'm still trying to get my White Hawkstrider from H:MgT on my druid along with the little Sea Turtle. It's a strange new world.

I had thought long and hard about just transferring my druid to the dark side, but I've put so much work into some of her alliance achievements and items - her Winterspring Frostsaber, for example. That is one HELL of a grind and if I go Horde, I lose that mount. Not awesome.

Wow, I'm rambling. All I really wanted to say was this: I'm playing Horde, I have no idea how to navigate the cities, I don't know where to pick up more quests, and I'm now afraid of the Alliance...go figure...