Hi all!
As title said i’m a new player, i started this month with just the subscription i haven’t purchased shadowlands yet.
I started to play with a friend of mine with the recruit a friend promo in his realm (it’s an italian realm)…but i’ve some doubts.
I noticed that such realm is “low” on pop, when i log in the realm says “for new players” so i’d like to ask you veteran players: are low pop realms worth to play in it?
My biggest concern is about server economy, since i’d like to be able to buy tokens occasionally but in such server ah seems a bit “chaotic” with very few auctions and very random prices (like pacebloom going from 50s to 100k gold at the same time).
I’ve experience with wow in, let’s say, less official servers: so i know how much pain is low pop for economy and how difficult is to get some gold with ah. I also noticed that there’s no limitation to play with my friend even if we’re on different realms, worst case scenario would be about guilds and trading if i understand correctly.
On the other hand my recruiter friend said that high pop servers are a pain for rdf and stuff like that since queing could take very long time (even if it should be crossrealm) …so do you guys have some suggestions? I started to play wow to play with my friend but i’d also like to have a full experience of an mmo and low pop server seems limiting to me.
I only play on High Pop servers so can only offer my suggestion on those.
Basically Draenor, Kazzak, Ragnaros, Twisting Nether for Horde and Silvermoon, Ravencrest for Alliance last time I checked a while ago.
I play both bigger population make some stuff in game easier than in lower population realm. Higher population you just hardly know anyone but in lower population when you spend little more time there you get to know people lot better and it feels more community. You can do everything in smaller population realm what you can do in bigger ones it just take little more time to come part of that realm players. Its like big city vs small city for me
I always recommend people play on busy realms that favour their faction. The Auction House is better and there are more guilds to choose from. Realms that are flagged for new players generally don’t tend to have high populations.
Although we have no way of seeing any official figures, these sites can give a rough indication of what realms are busy.
I keep saying same but i think that same its not so good for PvP realms. Ofcourse in retail you can enable PvP now
All realms are Normal. PvP realms no longer exist. We can choose enable War Mode on or off if we wish to engage in open world PvP.
This. And not just “favour” - you want your faction to be in an overwhelming majority.
There was a time when realms had identities, and small realms had pros as well as cons. But cross-realm zones, and then the ending of PvP realms, ended that.
Now, there is nothing good about smaller realms, and there is nothing good about the existence of a single player on your realm that is of the opposite faction.
I now favour Silvermoon for Alliance, and Draenor for Horde. The only downside to these extremely large realms is that at busy times like patch launcher or especially new-expansion launches that can get busy enough to degrade performance or even have queues. If you are particularly averse to that, you can look down the list to the next most populated realms for your faction.
when i first started wow i was tricked by blizzard and joined a server for new players^^ i had no clue that meant a low pop server, it was azjol nerub back then, since then i had to transfer to more populated server
i would definitely suggest playing on high pop servers that are mentioned above, only downside for the high pop realms huge queue when new patch is launched
I have found small realms very good places to hunt rares and mounts because there is not so many players everywhere
CRZ mostly ruined that, but if you pick one that is also RP or non-English, you do have a better chance.
However, if that’s all you want to do on that type of realm, you would be better served by using a Trial character to do the farming. I have done that a couple of times with some success. It;s certainly not worth playing your main character there for.
High pop realm is the obvious choice
AH prices are more balanced
Way more options of guilds to choose from
Open world will usually be more populated
Only reason to be on low pop is if you want to play Auction House like me since I simply refuse to pay for this game
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