Unfortunately, a good majority of PVP servers have turned into a PVE server because it’s 95-99% 1 way or the other. It’s been this way for these servers for a long while now… at least since TBC. Only a handful of a servers have a decent population of both, and even though it’s ‘decent’ it’s still imbalanced, for example, I believe Sulfuras is 30/70 horde dominant. As an alliance player on Sulf, I’ve absolutely felt the player decline. I personally have stopped playing there because it’s getting harder and harder to recruit and find dungeons/raids during offpeak hours. Gone back to Benediction.
I believe Faerlina is a locked server. It doesn’t matter to Blizzard what the population balance looks like, if the server is close to cap, it’s locked. As such, free transfers are not gonna happen. In fact, pretty sure they want people to take the free transfer OFF Faerlina, not to it. I believe the only thing that can be done with the imbalanced realms without opening up transfers to the server is for them to finally release race/faction change; which should be coming out this patch sometime, and that wouldn’t be free; it’d be a paid for service. You can read more about free character transfer off Faerlina here: