Originally Posted by Viskus
Just for clarity... (Scroll past all the text if you just wanna know the summary)
Alliance(PVE favored):
+5 Swords and Maces = Insane for DPS. 305 Swords = 85% damage on glancing blows against a level 63 (raid boss) instead of 70%. Against a level 63 mob, you have a 40% chance to hit a glancing blow, which cannot crit and has a negative damage modifier based on the formula (Target Defense - Your Defense - 5)*.03
+10% Reputation = Doesn't boost DPS or tanking ability in raids, BUT more rep = faster rewards = better DPS/tanking eh?
Perception = One of the few PVP racials. Not even that useful.
+1% dodge = Nice for tanking. About 10-15 defense boost.
Shadowmeld = One of the few PVP racials.
Stoneform = Immunity to poisons, bleed, disease is good for some bosses(IE huhu, twin emps, patchwerk)
Also +5 guns > +5 throwing weapons. Anybody got a troll that DPS's with throwing weapons?
Escape Artist = PVP racial, but once again, quite useless. Even has a casting time.
But atleast they get +5% int. And the females are cute.
Horde(PVP favored):
25% Resist stun = Very useful for PVP, somewhat for PVE but not so much
+5 Axes = One of the few PVE intended racials. Look at swords&maces above, except Orcs only get Axe and 2h Axe. Not Swords, 2h Swords, Maces, 2h Maces. Plus Orcs are fat and ugly. =D
Warstomp = Godly PVP, raid bosses (Except Sartura) find this skill useless.
5% health = More health = better survivability. Good for PVE is he is a tank.
Nature Resist = One of the few PVE intended racials.
+15 Herbalism = Money maker!
Taurens are imba, imo.
Will of the Forsaken = Best racial ability ever, imo. Extremely useful for PVP, somewhat useful on few bosses in PVE.
Cannibalize - Practically useless for PVE but amazing for PVP. Can be used in combat, so stun/sheep your next opponent, eat your first opponent, and you've got another 30%ish health back.
Shadow Resist = Twin Emps gogo. Naxx too.
Trolls = lol
Basically, each side has some PVP and PVE racials, but the Alliance have very nice PVE ones, while the Horde have very nice PVP racials.
Paladins > Shamans in PVE, Shamans > Paladins in PVP.
Shaman buff = (must be in group, in range, more mana costly, short duration, can't buff each class differently) - 25 mana regen per 5 sec, +154 AP, +77 agility
Paladin buff = 33 mana regen per 5 sec, +10% stats, 30% less threat, +185 AP all can be applied per class per Paladin for 15 mins.
I'm Horde at heart but I enjoy Alliance as well. And yeah, those that say Blizzard favors Horde obviously has no idea.
Fear Ward = Nefarian killer!
Better PVE skills+spells and more population = faster tier1-3 epics = more powerful in PVP.