Hey all,
I just want to share some of my experience on playing on both Lone Wolf (H) and Living Flame (A).
To begin, I created a priest on Lone Wolf for the first week of SoD. From the get go there was TONS of players for any activity, quest etc. This has continued to the point of writing this topic.
Around about a week ago I became interested in creating an Alliance character to experience something new, seeing as getting to level 25 wouldn’t take too long. After observing the threads here it was obvious there was a huge demand for Living Flame, and I managed to create my first character there when they briefly unlocked the server.
After now reaching level 25 on both servers - one on Horde, one on Alliance, I’d like to raise a couple of points and things I have discovered.
Throughout my time on Lone Wolf (and still to this day) as soon as I login I see huge amounts of players in TB and Orgrimmar, and the world chat is extremely active for productive content ranging from premade BG’s, Ashenvale & Dungeons / Raids. Furthermore, it has a noticeable lack of GDKP posts (I’m sure it does exist). I don’t personally care whether GDKP is a thing or not, but just something to point out from my experience.
In terms of raiding I have saw a balanced amount of BFD posts between the two servers, however the amount of World Buffs being popped is largely more noticeable on Lone Wolf. It would take a maximum of 10-15 minutes to be granted one in a major city. (This has been cleared up! please ignore anything comparing world buffs)
Additionally, the starting zones to end-phase zones were all extremely populated and there would always be players in the vicinity, both horde and alliance.
Lastly, the server has many social, PvP, and hardcore raiding guilds available. Some of which have between 500-900 members.
Now this is where it becomes interesting…
My time spent on Living Flame was quite the opposite. From creating my first character (NE Druid), I was greeted with a pretty empty starting zone (must of been around 2-3 other players leveling with me until Darnassus). This took me completely by surprise as there was a huge demand for players and this was the first hour of the server being Unlocked. I had also created a human character and there was a bit more activity through Northshire Abbey / Elwyn Forest, but nothing compared to Lone Wolf at a similar point in SoD.
Now I know there are probably many more layers to this server and this may very well have severely impacted the experience I had, however it was a negative experience nonetheless.
To continue, I noticed the world chat operated VERY differently to which Lone Wolf had. For example, people were spamming like crazy - anyone looking for a person for a specific activity was posting it 3-5 times in a row consistently. I found this to be quite annoying really. It didn’t seem to bother anyone else and didn’t see many posts complaining about it.
Surprisingly, inbetween the spam there was a similar level of activity as I had experienced on Lone Wolf. However I was now greeted with TON’s of GDKP posts and spam. I was aware beforehand that the server was home to these types of guilds / groups so it didn’t really surprise me, I was just not accustomed to it having played Lone Wolf at SOD’s peak and having no experiences with it there. Lastly to add here there was very few premade bg posts compared to Lone Wolf.
I struggled to find any populated social guilds to spend my time leveling in, and those I did come across only had between 10-30 people online at a single time.
I was surprised to find that even though Living Flame has a tremendous amount of logs for BFD, the scarcity between World Buffs was staggering. Now I don’t fully understand the logistics behind it in terms of layers etc, but in contrast it would never take longer than 15 minutes for a buff to pop on Lone Wolf, and I was able to sit for hours in Stormwind without a single buff on Living Flame.
To conclude this huge post… (my apologies) I think from my experience there is something a bit off with Living Flame, and this could be too many layers or the fact it has been Locked for a severe amount of time now. But I can give my honest opinion having experienced both servers albeit different factions, that I much preferred my time on Lone Wolf, and still do. The world just feels more alive, more activity, and a healthier experience with other players. Less bots, less spam posts and less GDKP (does not matter to me personally), which could be a big factor for other players.
I just thought I’d share this experience which may help others decide whether they want to play either server. I will be continuing to play both servers from both factions going forward.
Cheers for spending an hour of your time to read this 
