Why go horde?

[Zub]

Seriously Sam, I'd stop all this theorycrafting until you've actually played the game.

have to agree with that.

It's funny to see someone planning on rolling 25 toons together, with no knowledge of the game basics whatsoever >.<

[Sam DeathWalker]

Thats the power of the internet, you can avail yourself of 1000's of experts on most any subject, even if you know nothing to start with.

[Otlecs]

Thats the power of the internet, you can avail yourself of 1000's of experts on most any subject, even if you know nothing to start with.

And every expert is telling you that it's a pointless exercise

Both threads on this to date (and the exercise itself if anything ever actually comes of it) smack of simple attention-seeking. Come back and tell us how you're ACTUALLY getting on when you've done something interesting in WoW.

[Zub]

Come back and tell us how you're ACTUALLY getting on when you've done something interesting in WoW.

*I* killed hogger :-)

[Doc2e1]

Why play Horde?


1) They are awesome.

2) You get to kill gnomes.

3) WE ARE NOT EVIL, the humans have been trying to commit genocide against us since the beginning. Who is evil? The ones trying to make war against us, or us who just want to be left alone?

4) We are awesome.

-Doc

[lacitpo]

And every expert is telling you that it's a pointless exercise

Both threads on this to date (and the exercise itself if anything ever actually comes of it) smack of simple attention-seeking. Come back and tell us how you're ACTUALLY getting on when you've done something interesting in WoW.

I wouldn't say pointless. I think there are a lot of areas about the game that he's still a bit oblivious about but I've kept up for the most part with his topics since he first posted and he knows a ton more now than he did when he started.

As far as your setup sam, I have one suggestion. It looks like you are looking for a tank to use more as a durable main assist rather than as an actual tank. As in, you aren't looking to have him tank as much as just be your eyes and ears in the game with your 25 slaves following. Is that correct?

If so, I think a paladin might be your best option. With divine shield he can go invulnerable for a short time maybe giving you enough time to nuke the crap out of whoever may be trying to kill you (I'm thinking in terms of AV battleground). In world pvp which currently is like looking for big foot or the lochness monster, you'll nuke anyone you come across before they can touch your clone army. However, I want to be really clear on two things.

1. In it's current state, there is almost no consistent, quality world PVP on any server that I know of, regardless of Horde/Alliance imbalance. With a 25 man army, you might be able to provoke some confrontations, but I don't think it's going to be what you are imagining it to be.

2. When you go to warcraftrealms.com and look up horde:alliance ratios, you should take two things into account. First, those statistics mean very little. 2nd, you need to narrow your search down to only lvl 70's. For example.

Rivendare Default 42% alliance / 58% horde
Rivendare lvl 70's 26% alliance/ 74% horde

[Sam DeathWalker]

I have settled on

Blood Elf Female Paladin (1)
Tauren Male Shaman (25).

Got one copy of BattleChest makeing the Paladin today. (21 on order at $29.99 each), then Ill order 5 more tommorow.


Good point on the relem level 70 look up, Ill redo the search.

[Havelcek]

So I'm not a rocket scientist or anything but isn't that 26 accounts?

[Zub]

I'm still unsure what you want to do with a group of 1 paly and 25 shamies.
- World PVP ? mostly inexistant on all realms, and i would think nowhere with 25 toons together on one side, so you'll get to one-shot a couple guys here and there and that's probably it. Then again you could do that with 5 toons.
Maybe would a mob get together and fight you? i doubt it will happen much really but hey, who knows.

- Battleground pvp? the only one you'll fit in is AV, and MBxing AV with 26 toons will probably become very boring after 2 games. in any case it's a long way before you get there, it's level 50 min.

- PVE? Raid that take 25 people start at level 60 and wont be easy if you're not geared from instances beforehand.
level 70 raids i can't see how 1 tank will work, not even talking about the lack of class makeup needed in every boss encounter.

Also, i think i've read in the previous pages about the paly used to tank in PvP.. hum, what? not sure i get this, especially with the fire power you have cant imagine you'd want him to 'tank' anything
If the paly is purely there to powerlevel the other 25 toons, then you should probably start leveling it now, and not buy the other accoutns for another couple months.

not sure how you will level your 25 toons. if it's buy grinding mobs, then 5 shamans will do as good as 25, they already 1 shot everything around. basically instead of dealing 1500 dmg to a mob with 1000hp (killing it), you'll deal 7500 to that mob with 1000hp (killling it the same), but you'll have 25 guys with a bit less mana instead of 5.
Do you have a plan, or an estimated time it will take you to have 26 level 70?

so, i'm a bit perplexed about this whole 26 boxed group..
If it's just an e-peen thing, then good on you, go for it and have fun.
but in that case no point worrying about the class makeup and horde/alliance, the server pop, the toon racials and all the posts in the couple threads about all this. Just do your 2 toons, get them to level x, plant your totems and take a screenshot. Done.

I feel like i'm looking at a man who has asked how to pilot a boeing 747 on an internet forum, got a number of answers, bought the plane and is sitting excited in the cockpit.
now I'm now looking at the plane, interested to see if it will move, and if it does, to go where?

Mad props to you if you get to kill Gruull or dominate AV though, or whatever equivalent there will be in WotLK.
In the meantime it will be fun to see you in Org.

[Zub]

1 paladin
25 shamans

So I'm not a rocket scientist or anything but isn't that 26 accounts?

i think you're right

Got one copy of BattleChest makeing the Paladin today. (21 on order at $29.99 each), then Ill order 5 more tommorow.

1 + 21 + 5 = 27
I'm no rocket scientist either, but i think something is wrong here :-) unless the paly one is part of the 21 'on order' obviously