I’m going to be leveling a character or two and doing what farming I can until BC launches, and I was wondering how much the realm I choose matters. Is there any benefit to a high population server vs. a medium?
I guess that depends on your own preferences.
Do you want PVP? RP? Both? Do you want to do group content, or just play for the story?
The game is slowly coming back to life with TBC on the horizon so most Med-High pop servers will have various groups leveling throughout.
Maybe make a few alts to test the waters of each one you’re interested in and see which fits best.
from my personal experience from launch to trying to come back doing basic lvl 1-20 stuff high pop realms tend to have less helpful people. i tried doing the wendigo quest in the dwarf/gnome starting area which is an elite and i can’t solo it’s pretty dead af too few people around but asking for help in lfg and nobody comes out of IF to even bother and they can easily solo it too.
in lower pop realms i found people to be WAY more helpful.
just my 2c take it with a grain of salt im not saying all players that play high pop are like this its just i’ve never had good experience since launch when those realms were so damn packed with people everywhere.
best bet is to find a leveling guild regardless. if you can find one in higher pop realms that would be great
New Yorkers have the reputation of being brusque and unhelpful. However, nothing could be further from the truth. They are some of the most helpful people on the face of the earth. They simply require two things from you: don’t stop in the middle of the sidewalk and don’t waste their time.
The quest you’re talking about, Tundra MacGrann’s Stolen Stash, can be completed by a level 7 toon, unassissted. You simply wait on the hill opposite the cave entrance for the yeti to pat out of the cave and take the trail to the left, then you run in, grab the quest item, then run back out and turn in the quest.
You didn’t get any help because you broke the rule against wasting people’s time. You wanted someone to travel across a zone because you were too impatient to observe the yeti’s behavior for a few minutes, or to read the quest’s comments on Wowhead.
that is not the quest im talking about. I am talking about the one near the stolen rams quest where you have to kill vagash for his tooth/fang and yes you MUST kill him.
it is LITERALLY right next to IF as well also with similar quests on horde side i get help eventually where as on high pop alli servers i as well as many others are just spamming until people either come which is almost never or they decide to quit and just move on. you CAN solo it as a mage i know that for sure and possibly as a healer given you have a wand and can kite but other then that for someone with no gold or gear funneled it’s hell.
i’ve done this quest countless times as well almost same results everytime. with 1 exception someone told me “NO”
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After reading a couple of your posts I can see that the problem lies with all the other people on the server.
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I think the guy is talking about Protecting the Herd, different quest where you kill a lvl 11 elite Wendigo.
I don’t know why you are acting like such a know-it-all when you don’t even remember the one elite quest in the entire zone.
Absolutely, and as others have noted, it really depends on your preferences.
If you are looking to meet a lot of people while you’re leveling, run instances, quest, and generally party with others, then a currently high population server has several advantages that will allow for this.
However, this comes with the tradeoff of also very likely having queue times during content releases, such as TBC Classic.
This guy started not too long ago, and has some very good things to say about Whitemane, Alliance side:
And here is someone praising the leveling experience on Mankrik, Horde side:
Best of luck! 
Welcome to two hours ago.
Ya, this was you 2 hours ago, going on 3 paragraph tirade filled with wrong information.
1500 Classic WoW forum posts and you don’t even know the most basic info about the game, why are you even here? Is this just your social life?
You seem concerned. Thank you, you’re very kind.
There are alot more positives than negatives on a high population server. For me, just the fact that you can get groups going is #1 priority and #2 selling stuff on the AH for your first mount is easier (got mine at 40 just from selling greens).
Why do I see you in so many topics being catty?
You spend a lot of time reading the forums?
I’ve spent around a cumulative hour today trying to get a feel for the classic player base and you’ve been in every single topic I’ve read.
If you are planning on doing farming a high pop server is probably not ideal, everything in the world is overfarmed on them. I also think the communities are better on smaller servers.
Ok Winrar, here is the thing. Covid is a thing, and many are working from home.
Notglinda is actually Josh Allen, the dev named Lore, but is working from home and not allowed to keep Blizz IP on his home machine.
Therefore, Lore = Notglinda.
The truest expert in all fields Blizz.
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Lol
imagine how brutal (in her responses) actual glinda is when notglinda is this superb 
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The forum is a bubble, at (many) times really unrelated/unrepresentative to/of the millions strong playerbase that wow has
Dagnabbit!
Another account burned.
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