Low population servers

[Planerider-area-52]

Hey guys,

Is there a reason to play on low population servers, like Goldrinn, Stormreaver, and Turalyon, just to name a few?

Cheers, ty

[Splints-the-venture-co]

No. There used to be benefits, now there are only downsides. Main one being crafting orders, only guildies & same-server players can make items for you.

[Planerider-area-52]

ok, ty

[Sabbia-moonrunner (Sabbia)]

I just make my own stuff lol.

[Elmyouu-velen]

The main benefits for me are

(1) I can have basically whatever name I want
(2) Big servers can have big issues during new expansion or big patch launches, sometimes queues are imposed, my realm gives me a much smoother experience with no queue

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[Soulprison-dalaran]

I find farming ore and herbs on lower pop servers easier but other than that I don’t really see any benefits.

[Portalbot-moon-guard]

I love being on a low pop realm with my main. There is no lag, plenty of resources, and every opportunity to play the game solo without being disrupted. Then if I choose to group up, I can either play with my guild or I can check out my friends and see what they’re up to. I just hate going to the main city on proudMoore or moonguard and having to swim through the lag.

[Sahira-thrall (Sahira)]

For the name choice and rare farming

[Sendryn-sentinels]

I love my low pop realm cluster. People are nice. It’s smol. Until CRZ hits like a truck.

But yeah. Work orders are a problem.

[Tiffany-ravencrest]

@Planerider-area-52

Is there a reason to play on low population servers, like Goldrinn, Stormreaver, and Turalyon, just to name a few?

It depends. If you like group activities then that would work to your disadvantage.

But if you play alone, WoW has never been better. They kept the Follower Dungeons from DF and they have added Delves, which gives solo players access to the Great Vault and we have Story Mode Raids so we can see how the story for each season ends.

You can upgrade your gear with the Great Vault which makes it easy to handle any story content that may come along.

[Planerider-area-52]

cool, ty

[Mystgun-goldrinn]

@Splints-the-venture-co

Main one being crafting orders, only guildies & same-server players can make items for you.

This is a big one.

The advantages are not that great compared to the lack of gold income from crafting professions.

At least there isn’t much competition for… anything really.

[Laeuko-draenor]

If you are a introvert or just want a peaceful quiet place to play, then low population is for you. You have to make or join a group for world events if you don’t mind it.

[Slotmachine-sargeras]

The only benefit to low pop servers, is that when expansion comes out theres no one killing your mobs

[Planerider-area-52]

is it easy to find groups on a low population server?

[Akutare-fenris]

An underrated benefit is name availability, being able to snatch names you want relatively easily compared to the high population servers without resorting to accents and symbols is very nice

@Planerider-area-52

is it easy to find groups on a low population server?

Groups are probably one of the least worries you’ll have in a low population server, unless you want more “grassroots” style parties that can form by just throwing out invites to other people nearby, since with cross realm and faction grouping for things like M+, your realm doesn’t even really factor into that

[Pyrune-illidan]

Thanks to cross-realm queues being a thing, it’s hard to truly get ‘stuck’ on a dead server.

At least in terms of gameplay, it’s not like your character will get bricked from being alone.

But, things like the Auction House and having personal crafters for stuff you might need, are going to be more difficult to use.

The only real benefit is that you’ll have most rare spawns to yourself. That’s really about it.

[Anzath-wyrmrest-accord]

I feel like the other thing that’s nice about low population is farming world spawns. Less people competing for them.

[Laeuko-draenor]

Yes, just go into the LFG in custome and type in key words for world events like Nightfall or you can make your own group in LFG in custome.

In full pop servers people are already set for world events, but I go into the LFG tab anyways because it can be impossible to tag anything that dies super fast in full pop servers.

[Grarn-steamwheedle-cartel (Grarn)]

@Pyrune-illidan

things like the Auction House

I think the Warbank has alleviated a lot of the auction house drawbacks you used to run into on smaller servers.

If I’m looking for something like a rarer crafting pattern or rare pet drop and I don’t see any on my server or the price is very, very high I usually look at the Undermine Exchange and see if I can find it/save a lot of gold on one of the large servers and use the Warbank to buy it and transfer it over to my server.