It used to be a full pop server and often had queues back in mop + it had free character transfer to low pop servers as recently as early WOD… But now the server is completely dead and is only listed as a medium pop server on Sundays and a low pop server for the rest of the week. Does anyone know what happened to it?
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I’m guessing people transfered over to Silvermoon or Dreanor realm from it but I heard Blizzard is merging realms so it might reawaken again.
Some might have but why would people move from a full server to another full server? and why would so many do it to the point the whole server becomes a ghost town
Well that’s is a good question but I’m guessing they did so because other realms were advertised to them more as far as ppl who do top tier content go or their friends moved so they moved with them.
Interesting question cause I also remember it being a pretty big server, and with quite interesting prices, I have a feeling there wasn’t a lot of gold on it, late in wod magic roosters were selling with difficulty for 900k whereas they were selling like butter on pretty much every other realm even for 1 mil.
I wanted to go on frostmane for a long time, only been able to lately, was levelling a char, but indeed, was now marked as low pop most of the time, and given the connection program it’s kind of pointless for me to finish levelling that char, cause it will inevitably be connected to other english realms, and I’m already on those.
Personally have no idea how could a big server die down to this point, you’d have to ask on the realm forums or on trade chat I suppose.
Yea i agree. If i told people back in Mop/ early Wod that the server would die they would have laughed at me cause it would seem insane at the time. It would be the equivalent of Silvermoon going from full pop to low pop in just the next 2 years. The only reason i made this post to begin with is because i’m surprised that things like this can still happen. From what i’ve read it was very common in vanilla/tbc for servers to go from high to low pop in just a few months due to Blizzards waves with free server transfers. the only theory i have is that so many people quit in Wod + a lot of ally players moving to horde, which lead the server to become a medium pop server. And as we know a lot of people view medium servers as basically dead, and then moved to Silvermoon/Ravencrest.
All English “” alliance"" realms except Argent dawn and silvermoon are declining in population of active characters mains.
If blizzard doesn’t fix faction balance by giganerfing all horde Racials for a few years, silvermoon will also die. Argent dawn might survive due to goldshire roleplay
Why did it decline? Because it was made up mostly of players who started in Vanila, TBC, WotLK and Cata, who have since stoped playing. Newer players don’t join low pop servers, so it stays dead.
Welcome to the club. Doomhammer ussd to be a high pop guild, then the cataclysm hit and now it’s worse than a low pop realm.
It’s a “new players” realm
shudders
I also had two free character transfers during wotlk. My warlock was transferred to the Outland realm I think. I’d have to check to be certain.
I started playing on Balnazzar in vanilla. Then after some years Frostmane was popping so I started new toons there to become my new realm. Years later it was Auchindoun. Now I’m stuck there and this realm is dead too.
Wow has lost a lot of flavour since we are able to hop realms any given time
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I also started playing on Balnazzar in Tbc when the server was high pop and even listed as full sometimes. But after Cata the server started dying to the point it became a small low pop server… It’s a high pop server again now but that’s only because it’s connected to 9 other servers.
The dwarves murdered their children, didn’t you guys pay attention during Dun Morogh questing?
And now you wonder about decline…
Back in the vanilla days we moved from Shattered Hand to Frostmane (quite a few guilds did).
In Legion I logged back in on one of the chars I left there, it looked rather deserted. Most of my friends who still had their chars parked in our guild showed as: not having logged in for 8 years. Think I only bumped into two from back in the days. With the patch that brought the community system in: most of those inactive for 6+ years got removed from our guild, I reported it but nothing was done to it.
So I guess the server went in natural decline, after the removal of PvP servers and warmode being introduced it felt even worse. Because of the mismanagement of servers by Blizzard quite a few have gone into this direction.
It’s inevitable in any MMO, people stop playing and less and less new players join.
If we’re being honest: we’ve had too many servers for quite a few years now. For some reason they didn’t put as much importance on getting server connections fixed sooner. And I assume were too greedy to offer people server transfers.
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Sorry to say but new players realms are everything but dead!
Check the english realm list, see my realm, quel’thalas is marked as high pop, right?
It’s like this cause blizzard repopulated it by marking it new players for at least some months and now it’s doing the same to doomhammer.
Try checking how many people are in popular places on who on quel’thalas and doomhammer, you will find very similar numbers, so doomhammer is effectively high pop, blizzard just wants it to become even higher before they put new players tag to another realm in difficulty.
Also doomhammer and quel’thalas ratio is incredibly similar, around 60% ally and 40% horde.
@Shopkeeper: now that seems a good explanation about frostmane, makes sense, and yes, also the one who said about balnazzar, sounds about right, realms start high-full at wow peak, then go down to medium, people leave, they get low, they get connected and depending on blizz choices they could still be low now, or medium, or high, or full, see uldum, spanish realm connected to 3 big ones, nothing like draenor population but lively enough.
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