This morning I see many many realms now showing LOW pop. Including the realm I joined.
Anyone else out there who finds themselves on a low pop server now if you don’t mind posting some data here as follows
Realm name / region
Time / time zone
Results from /who westfall or barrens
Results from /who in cities
Is general chat active in your leveling area?
Just wanted to take the pulse of various servers.
It may be better to level up on a small server, can’t really say, may even be better to have a smaller economy.
If you don’t feel like posting your data what are your thoughts on playing on a low pop server , at what point is the pop too low, where do you draw the line ? Silent general chat in starting areas is a good indicator imho, but we will see
if you want to pick ‘active’ servers than wait for peak times. queue’s will all likely be back to 2000+ (minimum of 30mins) . last servers added were like that until around 2am. server like herod still had hours long queue. 25k+(6 hours+)
mind you, i expect about half the amount of people in queue by tonight already.
herod already had queue before maintenance so time will tell.
Thanks for the replies guys, and I did see the blue post referenced above that’s great info.
What I want to avoid is getting better past level 35 or so and not having enough players to form the groups I need. I like dungeons a lot . U
From what I can tell the algo is wonky as some reported Herod as medium pop, while I showed high pop only a few min later, accord to post timestamps at least.
I know things will stabilize and even out, and even if we knew how things would play out on our server, is it better to be on a lower population server or is it better to have it full, or somewhere in the middle .
From my vanilla time , I played at launch and then again when “new servers” were released, and based on past experience lower pop is better.
sulfuras pvp
eastern (new low pop)
pop wasnt low really … but the quests were doable.
no wait to get in last night at 2 am and no wait this morning at 7 am.