I don’t mind starting fresh. If I didn’t enjoying playing WoW, I wouldn’t have come back for Classic after being out of the game for years and years!
I originally thought about rolling on Wrath to get the full pre-Cataclysm experience, but then I started reading threads on it and was reminded of all of the cruft added to the game starting around mid-TBC, so I decided against it. After all, who tf is nostalgic for farming dailies and badges? I guess some people, but not me.
To my knowledge East Coast PvE servers for alliance are pretty good for classic era. With planned BGs every Friday and Weekends with all raids still being run at peak hours.
Here’s a snip from the bluepost about Classic Era’s realm connection:
Yeah so the NA PvE East receive free transfers from other PvE realms onto Mankrik while the PvP West gets free transfers onto Whitemane. So (for PvE) if you’re in either Mankrik or any of the other realms in that cluster (Ashkandi, Pagle, Westfall, and Windseeker) you will likely see the largest pool of players for that server type. Similarly, (for PvP) if you’re in Whitemane or any of the other realms in their cluster (Anathema, Arcanite Reaper, Bigglesworth, Blaumeux, Fairbanks, Kurinnaxx, Rattlegore, Smolderweb, and Thunderfury) you’ll likely find the largest group of PvP folks there.
My advice for anyone looking for a place to play is to roll a lv 1 on any prospective realm cluster and talk to the locals to get a feel for what the realm culture is like.
I found this cluster to be nice for Alliance.
I play on Westfall and it’s pretty nice
so if I’m on Mankrik, then we will be on the same server? I see a lot of people on other servers in the open world
Yes, that’s right. It’s a server cluster made up of those five servers. You should see the name of their server by their ingame name. If you’re on Mankrik, you’ll be able to send mail to and from the other servers in that cluster, and group with them. It’s really like being on one big server.
just fyi, as a druid what spec are you pvp’ing in? It seems to me that balance is probably the best pvp spec for the class so I’m planning on building up a balance set for when I get to 60.
There is encore and loot the dog are the alliance and horde guilds. There is always demand for naxx though so getting into such a raid will be difficult.
But suppose you want to play an enhance or ret. You might have to heal to get a spot as certain classes are meme specs.
Yea balance offers a lot. It has been a while since this toon specced specifically for pvp. He mostly assists with dungeons as a fat feral tank now.
I have run enough raids to know that having a deep bench is a godsend for ensuring raids happen on time. And if that bench has healers, all the better.
Once I get to 60, I’ll obviously be healing for raids as a druid. I’m not interested in being carried lol
Whitemane Horde is doing pretty good, my guild alone had 72 online yesterday.
Both Horde and Alliance were raiding Nax simultaneously a couple days ago.
that’s the classic era pvp server, correct?
Yea, that’s the PvP one.
The Era servers are a ghost town. Once transfers from SOM to Era open, the population will get better. But as of right now, it’s dead. Like, 100-150 players at peak hours. I log on around 8am-2pm and there’s about thirty level 60s online. Just level a character on SOM to get the benefit of 100% exp and gold, then xfer to Era when it opens. Take this time to farm mats until the population elevates if you don’t want to level on SOM.
Not everyone wants to skip through content with accelerated XP.
Then get 0 player interaction until level 60. Be my guest. Era is currently a single player game. SOM at least has the ability to find players for a dungeon or elite quest. Era is a wasteland until SOM transfers open up.
That sounds like a terrible server culture. I would advise playing on a realm that is more supportive instead of just using you to fill a raider slot.
I run dungeons with my guildies everytime I logon at all level ranges.
What realm would that be? I was forced to whitemane because my server kromkrush has been dead for a long time. I’d love a populated realm with people playing the game normally.
I will reroll horde, right now If there’s a populated realm with players of all levels.
I don’t know much about realms that facilitate alliance leveling. I’ve only played on my native realm+ the sister realms that it’s been connected with. My best advice is to roll a level 1 on any prospective cluster and chat with the locals there to get a feel for the realm culture.