Congrats on taking the plunge into PvP, glad to hear you are enjoying it, it can be a lot of fun. It definitely is entirely different to the PvE content in this game.

To answer your question, there's no real "best fit" alliance tbh as they are all pretty much the same. All of them have good and bad points and players that are fun and frustrating to play with.

The best thing to do is try and play with friends or guildmates if possible since they will likely already be people that you will naturally have more fun with than trying to run with randoms all the time.

Take advantage of the current event to join all 3 different alliances on a campaign like blackreach (for CP) or ravenwatch (no cp/procs) since those campaigns are not alliance locked, allowing you to see all 3 of them. The event is good for this as there are significantly more players in PvP currently than there normally is.
Join as many different groups as possible (don't always accept the lfm invite from the same person unless you enjoy playing with them) and if you do find a group you enjoy playing with, ask if they have an active guild or not that you could join.

Most guilds will stay on 1 alliance, but some will switch between the 3 alliances depending on what they want to do, or will switch alliances when running on different campaigns, so it might pay to have 1 character in each alliance just to make sure you can play with your friends in any situation.

Serpari wrote: »

Hello, I'm new to PvP, decided to join for Whitestrake's. I'm actually having quite a bit of fun, so I'd like to PvP regularly from now on. However, I can't find threads on alliance culture that are more than a year old. I also don't think my current alliance is a good fit for me. So I'd like to know, in your opinion, what's your alliance like? What do they do well, what could they improve on? Are there active groups (guild and/or Discord servers) running content? What kind of player would you recommend your alliance to?

I've been a main of all 3 factions at some point, ultimately every faction is the exact same just painted a different color. They behave the same way if given the opportunity, so it's not worth putting that much thought into which faction is the best fit.

If you're looking for a place to stay at, it should be whichever faction has your friends or guilds in it. Unless you plan to play solo, you should be playing on a faction with people you have commonality with so your game will be enjoyable.