The most interesting thing about the switch from the Alliance to the Horde, has to be the server change. What I came to take for granted as a noob Alliance member has turned into quite the yearning now that I'm on my own with the Horde. For those of you who don't know it yet, your guild and the folks in it are the best help you can get anywhere.
On Elune, Mandifesto and Arturis have created a supreme guild. The bank is stuffed full of goodies for the sharing, money for the loaning and above all its stockpile of items for leveling professions. Basically every profession was spoken for by someone at least once if not twice and so anything one could ever want was nothing but a whisper away. It made leveling and ranking up so easy (well I realize that now).
Back on the Horde server I have, well, none of this at my disposal. I have a FOUR item bag for goodness sake! I'm level 28 after all! But thus is the way it works for me on a new server with a limited number of friends. If I need something, well, I need to go and get it myself. This makes everything infinitely more difficult.
Now you might be saying, "SlashNoob, just join a guild on the server and have them help you" and while that is a very valid point, it's not that easy. Joining guilds and asking for help is like being the new kid at school. Everyone kind of looks you, but doesn't actually talk to you for some odd reason. Not to mention no one really wants to be caught hang out with you right away in case some kind of rumor comes out that you're a psycho or something.
Regardless, you get the picture, I don't need to continue to drum up my high school years for you. But basically I've found myself in a world with little help, little supplies and a healthy dose of WoW realism. This is what most players go through starting out, I was completely spoiled by having two stalwarts of the game guide me in my adventures. WoW is like going to school, or starting that new job or doing anything else socially for the first time. The likelihood is you'll have no friends and you'll have to make them, and quickly, otherwise you'll find yourself soloing all alone in Stonetalon Mountain, killing harpies at a one per 10minute pace and trust me, you just don't want that.
Luckily for me, I've found a small group of new friends. We've run a couple of instances now, and have all mutually added each other as friends (I added them a long time ago, but waited for the "ok" from them). While we may not have all the professions covered, we at least have the important things covered: Tank, Healz & DPS and frankly, in this crazy World of Warcraft, that's all you really need. Onward now, FOR THE HORDE!
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