I’ve decided to make a horde character (using my BFA boost) to check out the opposite story. My question is, should I make it on the same server as my alliance characters or should I move to another realm?
My realm is dead so was thinking of changing to cross realm Barthilas (200k horde) but my realm seems to have a descent population of horde on my server (20k ally to 100k horde). Is it worth making a new character to the same realm (encase I decide to faction change some Alliance toons) or do I make the horde on the new realm (if i like it better and transfer my main will cost extra cause I would have to faction change and race change).
Has anyone had a similar experience before? BTW with the cross realm stuff us Oceanic players see each other all the time running around so will see the same people just won’t be able to interact with them directly.
Realmpop links
Current realm with Alliance characters: https://realmpop.com/us-dreadmaul.html
Potential Horde realm: https://realmpop.com/us-barthilas.html
Server I should have played on https://realmpop.com/us-frostmourne.html
If the realm is dead and you don’t want to play on a dead realm, it seems you only have one choice. It doesn’t make any sense to keep adding toons to a dead server.
This is characters made on that realm, not how many people are playing. Out of total 120s on your realm, there’s 14k people, which is kinda low, but fortunately roughly 10k are Horde. Though not all 120s are playing, and many are alts, so we could say there’s… 1-3k people on your realm maybe. Which is decent, nice and small. Some of the best times I had was on small realms. Unless you like big lively Auction Houses and all that.
For comparison Area52 that someone suggested, 145k chars at 120, so that’s 10 times more than your current realm.
One thing I do miss is a big group and active raiding (Frostmourne is the only real alliance oceanic realm that raids) and that’s why I was thinking Barthilas for a horde but it looks like even horde are jumping ship and going to Frostmourne anyway since they have changed how PVP realms.
The only reason I was thinking of keeping my Horde on the same realm as my alliance is if I decide I hate them hordes it’s cheaper to race change back to Ally if it’s on the same server.
For the list of progression guilds in OCE: https://www.wowprogress.com/pve/oc