I want to start up a classic era toon for some relaxed leveling/game play.
There are a few recent threads where people mention specific servers/clusters with some activity – and a lot of older threads that may no longer be accurate. Since I’m not the only one curious about it having one centralized thread could be useful for folks.
I’m going to leave the word “active” as loosely defined – maybe it’s an RP server with a small but dedicated population, or maybe there’s active raid groups running that would like more people involved, or a pvp server with lots of organized fights…however you want to define active, please mention it here with some details.
I recently rolled fresh on era. I tried the “community fresh” DD server. Very cool but at the time still seemed quite dead. Rerolled to the whitemane cluster and have been having a blast. Pretty easy to find groups, wpvp and, herb has made me thousands pre 60.
Theres something about the whitemane era cluster thats really chill right now. Its nice having everything released and not being on blizzards treadmill.
Another nice function is that because its a server “Cluster” you can play both factions on a single acct now rather than 2+.
Additionally the players on WMC are also super cool most of the time overall, and the “culture” of the server really feels good because its as close to “Vanilla” as you can get now days, at least from the vanilla experience I had so long ago.
The Faerlina/Benediction cluster has a small guild ally side, called Istari, that is currently looking for levelers and more raiders to progress from MC, ZG, AQ20, and some world bosses into BWL and beyond. If you are interested in a low-pop, community oriented place with a Farmer’s Market Saturday AH, come check us out. Best times to pop in and get a feel for everyone would probably be Saturday or Monday night.
That’s only showing the people who care enough to log raids, and the strange bit about “ERA” is that near no one logs on WMC. It was strange to me at first, but I am not kidding no one logs raids on WMC, and those that do are the wild minority, its likely somewhere near 5% of the population at best is logging, may not actually be that much; could be lower like 1%, but im being very conservative saying 5% do.
I think that lack of logging is a part of the Whitemane culture that is very “Vanilla” in terms of how players play and go about their stuff.
yeah its good to remember that near no one logs on WMC. For example most “Raids” are done by SoftRes and Gold DKP, and far fewer by “raiders” who are also far less likely to log than years ago.
I play on Grobbulus, an RP PvP microserver that is all of the above and we’d love some new members for our roster! We have an active alliance guild, Legacy, which has cleared Naxx after building a roster and progressing through MC-Naxx since 2021.
We also have an active horde guild, Requiem, who just started BWL progression. My gnomish spies suggest they have killed the first two bosses there last night for the first time.
While we aren’t an RP guild, there’s enough of it to make me happy and we have a great sense of pride and community on our server! We’d love to have any new members who are curious.
In a similar boat here… I logged onto Deviate Delight just earlier and this past weekend, did a quick scan of people online and not more than 30 between levels 1-50… not so sure about DD, but Whitemane is pretty popping.