I have been thinking about this for a moment now, since so many out there say this is the way World of Warcraft, especially in Vanilla (or what’s left of it before TBC).
Is it really worth it to play current Classic Anniversary on the PvP server Spineshatter and experience the game with full on PvP anywhere, with the risk of being ganked or camped? I wish to try and go Horde this time and see how things are on the red side of the line. The Horde population is bigger on the PvP server and the population numbers is practically 50/50 it seem, that’s nice. The bots are a thing I bet and much more common than on the PvE server, and also the economy must be all over the place and items much more expensive in Spineshatter.
BUT to the ones of you that have played either Alliance or Horde in Spineshatter, how has it been? Have you enjoyed the experience? Must be a thrill roaming the world with that feeling that PvP can happen at any time.
Or should I just stay and chill on the PvE server? Granted that the Horde has much less players than the Alliance in Thunderstrike, and even much less people when compared to the Horde in Spineshatter. For the Horde in Thunderstrike it must be harder to find groups for pugs, dungeons or even harder quests outside of peak hours, I wonder? At least on the PvE server people don’t have to deal with being ganked or corpse camped but the world could feel a bit boring?
I’m curious as to how your experience has been on either Spineshatter or Thunderstrike, mainly on the Horde side.
I got ganked during levelling or farming. A lot. A damn lot. But I’ve always seen it as a price for fast groupping and extremely inflated economy (yes, this is a good thing for me actually, because as I don’t raid and prepare for TBC only, I can make massive amounts of gold legitimately, without swiping).
If you want to quest, farm and level in peace - avoid Spineshatter.
You will hardly find even PvP. You will find PvP when you are already fighting mobs, when you are low on health/mana or when you face more than one of the other faction. Or of course when you are grey or green to them.
Bots are everywhere, so farming is horror.
Sad that we have the mega servers bc there’s no chance to change realm.
Since September I am playing hardcore a lot, that’s when I found out how chill it is to only have NPC mobs to fight against.
P.S. I love PvP, the only reason for me atm to log on Spineshatter. But only for BGs.
I can queue to BG’s if I play on the PvE server right?
I don’t know if you plan to play TBC but if you do be careful, You should transfer to the Normal PvE server before it converts itself to a TBC realm.
I would play Horde on Thunderstrike but I don’t know how the population is doing there.
If you want to grief low level players or gank enemies in groups, pick PvP. If you don’t plan on doing that, pick PvE. And of course, same thing will be done to you. There is no fair wPvP, you will 95% of the time be attacked only if you don’t stand a chance of fighting back.
That being said, if you plan to play the arena to any serious degree, basically all the best players will be on Spineshatter Horde, so playing on the server for griefing psychopaths may be a sacrifice you will have to make.
I plan on playing TBC, not a too big fan of Era which to me is boring after hitting 60.
The population on Thunderstrike should be as healthy as on Spineshatter bc it is a “Megarealm” with many thousands of players.
If I had the chance (with my whole guild - which is a PvP guild btw ^^) we’d transfer to the PvE realm. We wanna do BGs and arena, WPvP is kinda lame if not that one loving it so much is a born ganker.
I was wondering, for example for TBC and WotLK (if we eventually go there), is there any major differences to Horde and Alliance in terms of the zones, quests, lore?
I did that in 2019. It was….okish! But the moment TBC launched, the leveling experience in the news Zones, especially in Zangarmarsh was THE worst I had in every MMO I played. The ganking was out of this world.
That was THE first time ever when me, along with 3 other friends switched to PvE and we never looked back.
There weren’t many differences. Since there are no starting zones it’s all free to everyone. Quests are mostly the same. There may be some faction based quests though. I forgot.
Just because Thunderstrike might be Alliance dominated it doesn’t mean you won’t be able to find groups - the server will still have a huge pool of players during the first few months of release, it might drop off later on however.
If you can stand being ganked then go Spineshatter since obviously more players is better but even so once you get to max level in TBC world pvp is basically dead due to flying (and the capital being neutral) and you can just go dungeon level if you find yourself being griefed whilst open world questing or switch layer.
