Once you venture into Shattrath City, which there really isn’t any reason why you can’t make the journey at level 60, you will be presented with a choice of picking what side to ally with. If you are like I was, you will have several questions right off the bat when you get the option. I am going to attempt to clear up the muddy water.
You are directed upon finding the city to go to the city center. After that, you speak with Khadgar, who was very close to Midvh (Read more at Know Your Lore: Medivh). His summoned pet gives you a tour and history of the city, which is easy XP, even if it’s a mindless 5 minutes.
Getting back to Khadgar, he makes you chose your allegiance, either to the Scryers or Aldors.
What delayed my decision was this list of questions:
- Can you change your mind?
- No. Yes, but it is a HUGE pain.
- Is one side for Horde and one for Alliance?
- No.
- Is one side more or less for my class or build?
- YES!
Now that my curiosity and hesitance was taken care of, I chose to ally with the Aldors as an uber-damage Shadow Priest. I love healing, but have recently found the healing ability of a priest that does damage. The more damage I do, the more healing I do. I’ll write more on that later, so on with the topic.
WoWwiki.com thankfully had all the rewards listed with a take on their interpretation. Here is one of the tables you can find there:
| Aldor | Scryer |
|---|---|
| Sword rogues, DPS warriors, Hunters, and Feral druids (shoulder enchants) | Dagger rogues |
| DPS warriors | Tanks |
| Healers (especially tailors) | Healers (with staff proficiency) |
| Magic damage dealers (slight PvE bias) | Magic damage dealers (slight PvP bias) |
| Players seeking PvE shoulder enchants | Players seeking PvP shoulder enchants |
| Crafters wishing to make Fire Resistance armor | Crafters wishing to make Arcane Resistance armor |
| Jewelcrafters wishing to make Shadow Resistance armor | Jewelcrafters wishing to make Nature Resistance armor |
| Moonkin druids with intellect need | Alchemists, especially ones that want to create fire damage potions |
I HATE making unchangable decisions in this game…BAH! Oh well. I scanned through all of the rewards and picked the side that I liked the gear the most. I know I could take a lot of flak for picking the “wrong” side for what I wanted, but I’m sure that they purposefully made a lot of the gear overlap so it’s no devastating to those who picked without knowledge of the rewards.
Here are the things that swayed me to Aldor:
Golden Spellthread, Greater Inscription of Faith, and the big daddy on the list:
| Auchenai Staff | |
| Binds when picked up | |
| Unique | |
| Two-Hand | Staff |
| 92 – 172 Damage | Speed 2.10 |
| (62.8 damage per second) | |
| +46 Intellect | |
| Requires Level 70 | |
| Requires The Aldor – Revered | |
| Equip: Improves spell hit rating by 19. | |
| Equip: Improves spell critical strike rating by 26. | |
| Equip: Increases damage and healing done by magical spells and effects by up to 121. | |
I’m a holy pally (armorsmith)… what side should I choose? I think Aldor, but i dunno..
I am a death knight and chose the spec different from my husbands so he is Scryer and i am Aldor. First…which is best for us and second how do you change.
Would appreciate your help.
Thanks. Purra
Purra,
at this stage in the game, neither matters. Plow ahead and get Inscriptions in the next expansion areas