Dell XPS 15 pretty good
If you need more portability than that have a look at Lenovo's and Dells 14"models

Heres the thing, alienware is dell and my laptop befire that was dell too, another brick of shit. What you play on yourself? Know anything about Asus ones.?

Why not a desktop?

I move around often wouldn't be convenient atm..

I've just purchased a razer blade 14'' and it's truly so beast mode :) I intentionally didn't want to spend that much, but once I saw it there was kind of no way back for me. The razer is for sure overpriced considering ones with similar power (the power is really good though). But for the overprice you get amazing design / very high quality / chroma keyboard light and probably the thinnest quadcore out there. At the same time heat is not an issue at all it is perfectly cooled, I checked that before purchasing and also in use.

The best competitors on my list were the Dell XPS15 and the Lenovo I T570 I guess (a 14'' quadcore as well). However the screen on the lenovo was not so nice, I checked them in store. And also the cooling system didn't test super good even though it's a big and thick laptop. And the design of XPS didn't wow me enough - though it's much cheaper.

Not sure if I can go with Dell again, 2 laptops in a row that have broken down repeatedly. Just looking up the razor blade, not outrageous for $1399...(payed almost 1500 euro for alienware 2.5years ago) it's a tempting option....do you play much online?

You mentioned that other laptops have the similar power for much less, could you name 1 or 2 for me please? Much appreciate your feedback here mate.

may it be that you looked up the razer blade stealth (11'') for 1399$?

I believe the stealth is pretty powerful itself and I've seen there may have been an update in the last months since I've checked them out myself..there is a 12.5'' and a 13'' model which seems pretty nice, I believe some months ago there was only a 11'' or 12''? but I'm not sure.

They seem to have a really nice processor but only dual-core and they have onboard graphics only.
The big difference to the Blade 14'' (which was in Germany starting from 2149€) is that the 14'' is a quad-core and has a powerful GTX 1060 graphics. Also one of the big selling points of it was the battery life of the newest model which is really great(also in my experience in use). Most "gaming laptops" I believe have rather not so good battery life (like 4-5 hours in average use, where the razer I believe has sth like 7-9)

So alternatives which I came across:
Lenovo T470 (above I mistakenly posted T570 which is the 15.7'' version I believe) The T470 is a 14'' quad core, has a very similar processor (believe bit worse though) and I cannot very well categorize the graphics but it should be probably the biggest disadvantage which comes with a "buisness notebook" instead of a gaming notebook.
Big Plus: Battery can be taken out and switched during use. RAM Customizable.
Big Con: No Thunderbolt

XMG P407 (14''): This is from a very well-liked german notebook manufacturer (Schenker) and XMG is its gaming line. One semi-professional gamer I know has a contract with XMG. It indeed should have almost exactly the technical data of the blade but comes at around 1500-1600€ (also quadcore but GTX1050 instead of the blade's GTX1060)
Big Plus: Can be customized pretty well (e.g. RAM upgrade etc.)
The con for me here was the design...which I just didn't like at all. However I have to say I saw a XMG lately sitting right next to me and the quality is really good and in real it looks pretty good after all...well not astonishing like the blade, but good ;) Should be taste question though...

I hope I could help you a little bit. Note that I'm not a computer expert but most of this knowledge came up when I faced the decision what my next laptop should be. Also I had some informatic students help me at university, don't take my info as super profound.