Well, to clear this one up for you guys. The guy that made thread asked simple few questions, You don't need to turn this into "measuring" contest or being salty or any other way offensive. Other than that, PvP goes simple as always, Hordes get more BG que's that allows them to make premades which makes it easier to win, for alliance I reckon players are somewhat better, at least some that is. For gearing a toon i would say choose horde, will grind it faster. As for Bg balance, well hard to say really, i haven't met a person that played ALL bg's on Icecrown to determine which faction wins more, just because someone can say" oh alliance wins 70% or horde wins 70%" Doesn't mean anything because it's their experience while they played in perhaps premade, maybe someone from solo que had way worse time in this. For alliance PvP guilds, well there are couple, my own guild VIRTUS is focused more on arenas because BG times are 5-15 minutes for 5m group so there's that, for bg's on alliance I don't know every single guild but i know there is Art of War for bg's. So once again, simply choose faction by your liking and hopefully you will enjoy it here.