What servers are not dead and well balanced?

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What servers do you recommend? They should not be dead and have good balance Alliance/Horde.

If I have understood correctly:

  • Firemaw (PvP) is Alliance only, has queues and has been closed to transfers and new players
  • Earthshaker (PvP) is Alliance only
  • Gehennas (PvP) and Golemagg (PvP) are Horde only, have queues and have been closed to transfers and new players
  • Ashbringer (PvP) is dead
  • Thekal (Fresh PVP) has massive queue but is currently well balanced
  • Giantstalker (PvE Fresh) - Almost 2:1 Alliance/Horde, enough players
  • Mirage Raceway (PvE) - Almost 2:1 Alliance/Horde, enough players
  • Mograine (PvP) - Almost 4:1 Horde/Alliance, less populated than the above but still decent
  • Nethergarde Keep (PvE) - Almost 2:1 Alliance/Horde, slightly less populated than the above but better balanced
  • Hydraxian Waterlords (RP) - low population server but the only option for RP, almost 2:1 Alliance/Horde
  • Pyrewood Village (PvE) - Alliance dominated
  • Flamegor (PvP) - Russian server, well balanced
  • Venoxis - German server, 2:1 Horde/Alliance, locked for new players
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Hi I checked how many players were in LookingForGroup on all of these servers yesterday evening. Here are the numbers for you.

  • Ashbringer (PvP) Alliance 221 Players - Horde 158 Players - 20:23 Server Time
  • Earthshaker (PvP) Alliance 7305 Players - Horde 119 Players - 20:24 Server Time
  • Firemaw (PvP) - Queue to login (400) - 20:25 Server Time
  • Gehennas (PvP) - Queue to login (5902) - 20:25 Server Time
  • Giantstalker (PvE - Fresh) Alliance 5892 Players - Horde 3839 Players - 20:27 Server Time
  • Golemagg (PvP) Queue to login (270) - 20:28 Server Time
  • Hydraxian Waterlords (RP-PvE) Alliance 189 Players - Horde 102 Players - 20:29 Server Time
  • Mirage Raceway (PvE) Alliance 5119 Players - Horde 2951 Players - 20:31 Server Time
  • Mograine (PvP) Alliance 733 Players - Horde 3234 Players - 20:32 Server Time
  • Nethergarde Keep (PvE) Alliance 2053 Players - Horde 1346 Players - 20:34 Server Time
  • Pyrewood Village (PvE) Alliance 9445 Players - Horde 690 Players - 20:35 Server Time
  • Thekal (PvP - Fresh) Queue to login (9930) - 20:36 Server Time
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Thanks bro, I updated my post with your information.

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Mograine is getting more and more people every day, got to High Pop but still no que :slight_smile:
Just hoping more alliance would join so we would get closer to 40/60, but seems like more is joining every day :slight_smile:

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I second that, Mograine has been a lot of fun so far, just hope we can keep a healthy balance between factions so it won’t become another single faction pvp server.
Come with us Alliance players, let’s have fun!

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Nope.
But only interesting for Roleplayers.

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Mograine has less commodities on the AH than I do on one of my bank alts.

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Come on lets be realistic the realm has suffered a lot because of Blizzards stupid mistakes. First they opened the realm to outbound xfers when they had the intention to close the realm (removing the actively subscribed playerbase) and now they’ve botched opening it to free transfers for wrath prepatch returnees. Adding Celebras and Zandalar Tribe (which they botched the same way they did Hydraxian) did nothing to remedy the situation.

Blizz should have transfers open to Hydraxian from most realms so that RPers can return to the realm for the prepatch.

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waves sadly
Former Celebras player here… :cry: :broken_heart:

I agree, they made a lot of mistakes with the RP Realms.
But exactly that´s why Hydraxian Waterlords is not “dead”.

When they told us, they would slaughter Cele in favor of Hydraxian Waterlords, there were during prime time 10 people online on Hydraxian Waterlords Horde :sweat_smile:

Now there are already >100.

Still not many, but most roleplayer had still no chance to get back.
The amount of roleplayer will increase as soon as the FCT from all realms will be opened.

But most of the Celebras player went to Lakeshire. Exactly as we predicted the whole time and said here the whole time.
The language barrier is way too high for most of us to roleplay in english.
Hydraxian Waterlords gained nothing from Celes murder.

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Mirage Raceway was/is the best horde PVE server and the closest to balanced, but I left there on my alt in phase 5 because it was a literal ghost town on horde outside of prime time hours. Sitting there seeing a message maybe every few minutes at night because most players are raidloggers and doing anything outside those prime “after work/school” hours took forever.

Also felt much more than 2/1 A/H ratio, you’d walk around Shattrath at prime time and only see swarms of Alliance players, with the occasional horde, those raiding populations are not an accurate depiction of server activity. It’s probably alright again now during prepatch while everyone is levelling alts and preparing for WOTLK.

Blizzard says these servers have much higher concurrent capacity, which is clear, but my old server Hellscream EU had more round the clock activity from players, and it was only a medium/high server in 2008, also alliance heavy like most PVE servers are.

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Yeah. Killing off Celebras was so stupid, nobody wanted that. If they had made plans for Hydraxian Waterlords earlier and continued to monitor the situation today we wouldn’t be in this mess with the server.

As far as Blizzard is concerned, Hydraxian Waterlords, Ashbringer and Earthfury (US) don’t exist. They are constantly forgetting about them.

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Thekal if you can get on

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if mograine get to heavy on one side, im going ashbringer 100%.
Yes, it may be “dead”, but still im not raiding and can get gear and 80 without dung, i can get alot of mats instead of fighting over them, like in tbcc

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Giantstalker is the best realm currently. Fresh, no queues, alive and pretty balanced. Only PVE. If thats not your cup of tea you should look after mograine as alliance or stay in queue for thekal.

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Probably all 3 RP Realms.

I actually think they did the right thing with the PVP realms. Most player want to move to more crowded ones anyway and for those who don´t are still (few) alternatives there.
But the RP Realms were not replaceable :confused:

I don´t think so.

They were yesterday until late in the eveninge busy to solve the FCT issue towards Hydraxian Waterlords (with success).

But issues on realms with 30k people are more urgent as issues on realms with 300…

Announced free transfers to Hydraxian Waterlords not working - Support / Technical Support - World of Warcraft Forums (blizzard.com)

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Thanks for the feedback, I have updated the 1st post.

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Flamegor
Best server in WoW Classic by every stat

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Thanks for the tip, added to the 1st post
How difficult will it be for a non-Russian speaker to play there?

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Sadly i dont know, because political mess happened

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Why would you go to Thekal? It’s PvP, so it is bound to turn into either Horde only or Alliance only like all the other PvP servers in the list in this topic.