Hey! I am a casual PVE player. I like to do m+ and raid (up to heroic, nothing too crazy. Being the end of the expansion i was thinking to switch servers and have a fresh start somewhere (horde side). Now i am trying to decide between draenor which is a titan of a server or something less crazy like magtheridon/ burning blade/stormscale
I need some thoughts on this subject please.
If I had the money, I would transfer all my chars off draenor. The server is highly unstable.
i play on RP server they stable atleast.
I would advise holding off, they are in the process of merging realms so low and medium pop realms will become high/full anyway.
Spending money on transfers right now seems kind of pointless when you will most likely see a huge shift upwards in realm pop soon.
It is of course your choice, if you do decide to move then do take into account that full realms like draenor are often unplayable and come launch of SL this forum will be full of threads from people who are in massive queues to even log in for days/weeks.
Don’t do draenor. Lag
Whilst high population servers look good in terms of cities being full and more guild and PUG choices, they come with server login queues, lagging, crashes, etc.
Having been on a low server, it’s a very isolated experience. There’s some good guilds but they’re few and far between. Medium is a good balance but finding the right medium server is difficult as they all have different personalities (depending on Horde / Alliance ratio, high-ranking guilds, nationality distribution, etc.)
Try some low level characters out on some servers and see which ones has the best feel for what you’re looking for.
this used to be the case in early wow expansions. Even as far as mists of pandaria had significant benefits of being on large pop servers. PUGing was done primarily though trade chat, more organized pugs through openraid or oqueue.
Ever since premade group finder got introduced servers became meaningless. It does not matter where you roll anymore.
Want to farm rares easily on low pops? Tough luck, CRZ will phase players from a dozen different realms. Pugs are xrealm, even mythic after hall of fame is filled up.
Now what is the trade chat on silvermoon? Boost boost booost boooooost boooooooooooost. Nothing else, literally. The only benefit is well stocked AH cos many players play there so there are many items listed.
Agreeing with the others here. A high pop/full realm can easily become a locked one early on in an expansion, causing log-in queues. I’d advise against Draenor/Silvermoon unless you’re okay with that.
I played on Draenor in the past, it wasn’t worth the queues for me.
Having played on draenor a bit at the beginning of bfa i have to agree. The server gets very laggy and close to unplayable (and i won’t even mention the queues). Even in the first few weeks of a new patch things get rough on high/full servers. I remember that me and my guild had to move the raiding day to Thursday because wednesday was too laggy because of everyone having their raids on reset day.
This. This are my exact thoughts. I think the only way of predicting how good a server would be for a pve player is by checking how many guilds do the kind of progress that i am looking for. Even tho the guilds rise and fall, the % will remain more or less the same.
My top contenders for now are:
-defias brotherhood (someone said that he chose an RP server for stability. And indeed, i am tempted by how sharding works for RP realms)
-magtheridon (seems like a healthy medium server)
As a “Magtheridonian” (we don’t actually call ourselves that on the server!), I’ve found it the most balanced and relaxed server I’ve been on during my 12-13 years of WoW but definitely take time to find what suits your style. All the best!
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