sempiternus wrote:I'm asking because i wanted to play a sword combat rogue, cause i find the playstyle more fun than daggers, but from what people are saying, alliance is way better for pve because of paladins buffs (+10% stats) and threat reduction.
I wanted to play an undead rogue and an orc warlock, but i might have to play daggers with the undead, not having the benefit of the human racial with swords, and warlock threat is a pain on the horde side.
But there is also pvp, where WOTF is a huge advantage when you're playing a rogue : i don't wanna make an alliance warlock because of that, plus dealing with the orcs stun resistance as a human rogue (and the inability to escape fear as a human compared to an undead) sounds painful.
Is the choice of the faction such a huge problem pvp and pve wise?
thank you
Holy paladins are the easiest healers to play. Their buffs are the best in the game. So yes.
Salvation, mana efficiency, and spamming one button to heal (A German Shepherd could heal on a holy paladin) are what make alliance better. Add to that while leveling a paladin can tank extremely well in 5 mans, so the faction pretty much has a extra tank until raiding.
PvP? " i don't wanna make an alliance warlock because of that, plus dealing with the orcs stun resistance as a human rogue".
The one class/spec that is at a severe disadvantage in pvp on Alliance is a healing priest. A Warlock can just fear again. A rogue? You are looking at it like the pvp server with a ton of one vs ones. Yup fear sucks, but the only really good healer on horde is priest. After their fear you can kill them. Enhance shamans you eat alive as a rogue. Good luck trying to kill a holy paladin quickly once they are geared, or a reckoning paladin.
Also perception = you eat horde rogues alive. Rogue and lock on alliance are fine. This is not the PvP realm where you are going to be attacked by an undead rogue every 15 minutes while leveling on a lock in an unfair 1 v1 lol. In a BG? You can see them stealth. You can pop perception and dot them. Escape artist is nice with deathcoil (get range). If they pop WOTF? Wait 4 secs and fear them again. A rogue out of stealth and dotted is not lasting long against warriors or reck pallys or hunters. BG's are not "1v1".
Now if you are a really good healing priest and big into pvp? Yeah I would go Horde all day long. Purge and WOTF is a huge pain in the arse for that class.