I have 3 heroes, 2 of which are Alliance, which I transferred off ZT to Earthshaker and 1 Horde Rogue on Bloodfang.
I know and speak to a lot players from both Alliance and Horde on servers like Firemaw and Shazzrah and I’m going to tell you how how the situation is developing and what will happen in just 1 to 2 months.
Shazzrah and Firemaw have overwhelming Horde populations, it’s between 70 and 80% Horde there and it gets worse by the day. If PvP>PvE servers are opened from these realms, they’ll become 90-95% Horde in no less than a week and Blizzard know that. If the situation isn’t changed, the servers will still end as 90-95% Horde, just in a matter of 1-2 months.
With more content coming, raids will get harder and guilds will require better gear from people who want to raid. The faction with lower population will have absolutely no new characters coming because leveling has become impossible due to the roaming groups of 60s who just kill everything from 20 to 60 without remorse.
Those who somehow manage to get 60, will have no one to gear up with as no one will do UBRS/BRD/Strat and Scholo. Battlegrounds will mean that most people will just sit in the cities and and WPvP will slow down even further.
Geared people will simply raidlog and the faction with less people will be non-existent. The world will become a ghost town.
The Blackrock rats who spend 12 hours a day will hit rank 7-8 and will start to have almost no progress despite playing harder than ever due to the insane competition for honor on the faction with more people.
The result for most PvP servers with a Horde majority will be:
- Very long battleground queues
- Facing a majority of Alliance super-geared and coordinated premades
- No WPvP as the Alliance players would have simply stopped playing and those who leveled to 60 will just raid log and move as 40 to raids
- Leveling an alt will be easy, but will bear no rewards as most people will be looking at battlegrounds or high-end raiding. Finding groups will be near impossible even on a high pop server with a 95% faction dominance
This will without a doubt happen with the most populated servers. Low/Med pop servers like Earthshaker (the one I transferred my 2 Alliance characters from ZT) will suffer the same fate, just slower. The server is currently being advertised as 55-45 for the Horde side, but the reality is that it’s at least 60 bordering on 70%.
Despite the lower number of Horde players you’re forced to encounter, you cannot experience the game for which you pay for.
Menethil is camped 24/7, there are 20-30 Blackrock rats at all times, every single vein/herb is taken where black lotuses are now up to 90g. Winterspring has about 3 groups of 3-5 players who are roaming endlessly 24 hours a day, LHC is camped for about 17 hours a day by at least 10 people.
Now, this makes leveling almost impossible for Alliance players and those like me who are already geared and with a good guild find ways to play the game and raid. Regardless, I’m still missing half of the game I and many others pay for due to factors outside of my control:
- I cannot practice my professions
- I cannot quest
- I cannot go to an instance without wasting 30 minutes in corpse running due to facing ganking raids
- I cannot level an alt as even Redridge and Ashenvale are camped for about 10 hours a day
Keep in mind this is the situation in a server which is “officially” at 55-45. This server and many like it will slowly keep moving up the ladder 55-60-65-70 etc.
Like I mentioned above however, this will all be seen in the coming months as the Holidays will end, most people will get back to work/school, battlegrounds will be available, most people would have quit on the faction with lower people and then the brownies will hit the fan.
Most people I know from overpopulated servers (on the Horde side) say they are completely disgusted and say that they would’ve quit if the same was happening to them. They are right however, many people are quitting and they are quitting en masse because Blizzard doesn’t want to pull the plug on the failed experiment and open up transfers to PvE.
The Blackrock rats and shills who spam people to re-roll to PvE and to just pick the winning faction next time, would have been driven mad if the same thing was happening to them.
So, my hat’s off to all the Alliance bros who keep up the fight in this rigged game. To the Horde players that actually understand the situation and can see how things will end, keep speaking out.