I’m looking forward tot his adventure with the fresh realms, I will be playing on the PvE server Thunderstrike but I was wondering if there is any website with updated data that show the player numbers or population on each faction?
I am thinking about going Alliance, it seems that the faction stays very active in the PvE servers but i have seen in Reddit people having discussions about how Vanilla has indeed more people on the Alliance side but this changes coming TBC because the Horde gains access to paladins. Is this true? The fact that Horde gets paladins is enough to make it so that Horde gets more players than Alliance?
There is just one server with (populated to the brim) layers, so unless you have an arcane reason to roll the more populated faction, just play whatever you desire.
Sure, I suppose, PvP queues might get the same issues as always, if mostly just one side is signing up. (Although, in that case you should play the underdog I think. More matches, more currency, more gear, more power, more win.)
Alliance is more populated on Thunderstrike. Don’t have any specific numbers, but when I checked the server discord, there’s 8,2k people in it and more signed as Alliance. So the population is good, just a bit disbalanced.
The population in the leveling zones on Thunderstrike is really insane.
Did the starting quests in Stranglethorn this weekend and having to fight other players and snipe the few cats/raptors that spawns is really not that fun.
Probably a layering issue though… where they let too many into each layer?
Hello Zugzugah, it’s not an issue about having 1 PvE server or more it’s an issue if the lesser populated faction will stay relevant, alive enough to have a healthy activity or if people will roll Alliance just because it’s the faction with more players and in this day and age we know that the majority of people gravitate towards where the higher pop is.
That is very strange, on Alli side I have no trouble picking any of the listed dps and healers I like, then once I have 4/5 group listed, a tank usually whispers me in 30sec to 2min tops. It’s a massive improvement on Bulletin Board addon and endless spamming in /4
When i see a non bots horides on Thunderstrike its usually a guild group. Almost always a guild group outside of BRD. A different story for alliance where we have people from top 10 raiding guilds on fresh farming their bis mixed with people that just doing quests in the same dungeon group.
Ive been constantly doing WPL/EPL elite group quests at late night with random people and we had no shortage of players whatsoever.