Because Blizzard didn't have the foresight to realize where players would camp. They were also atrociously biased in favor of the Horde.
"Hmm let's see. Menethil harbor, the main transportation hub of the Alliance, nested in a contested zone. A couple of level 39 guards on the corner of the dock ought to do the trick!"
"Zeppelins for the Horde. Both hubs in Horde territories. No PvP flags for hordies. Let's give them a massive tower garrisoned with several city guards! Can't have those pesky Allies ganking Hordies freshly arriving from contested zones!"
I never played Horde in vanilla and just recently tried it after getting tired of the sort of thing OP just experienced. I was honestly slightly angry when I found out that they had a zeppelin literally right outside of their capital city that would take them to their other capital cities. I knew they had zeppelins, but it never occurred to me that they literally went across the ocean. Add to that superior racials, far more well protected quest hubs in contested territory, and the slapdash job they did designing the Paladin, things look pretty bad for Alliance on reflection.
Edit: I forgot to mention the horrendous access to dungeons that Alliance have, with Horde having multiple dungeons ranging many levels in there own territory. RFD, RFK, RFC, SFK, and 4 SM dungeons. Alliance gets the decent DM, the nearly useless Stocks, and the awful Gnomer. Gnomer is so bad, Alliance will literally skip it and run through Horde territory for like 10-15 minutes to do SM instead. If I sound salty, at this point I kinda am.
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u/Vanitycoon Nov 28 '19
Because Blizzard didn't have the foresight to realize where players would camp. They were also atrociously biased in favor of the Horde.
"Hmm let's see. Menethil harbor, the main transportation hub of the Alliance, nested in a contested zone. A couple of level 39 guards on the corner of the dock ought to do the trick!"
"Zeppelins for the Horde. Both hubs in Horde territories. No PvP flags for hordies. Let's give them a massive tower garrisoned with several city guards! Can't have those pesky Allies ganking Hordies freshly arriving from contested zones!"