I made the choice, back in 2005/6, to join a new server when creating my account, didn’t really think about the long term 15+ years later.
Now, my server is completely dead. Even with two other connected realms, it’s empty. Orgrimmar, last night, had a max of 3 players in it, including myself (I know it’s not the main handout area, but it’s still an alarming number of people).
Is it worth paying to transfer some of my characters over to a more populated server just so the game world doesn’t feel dead? Or is it pointless with all of the connected realms and layering technology Blizzard has in place? What have the rest of you done if you are/were on a low populated server?
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thrall/illidan (if you can handle their… meanness)/area 52 are good horde servers if you wanna switch.
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I see no advantage to moving whatsoever now. The only disadvantage might have been deadish AH but that no longer is an issue.
I would stay were I was personally.
you are on a server that is like 5000% alliance though. 
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tbh it doesn’t matter because everything is cross faction / cross server anyway
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I like being the underdog. I was Horde on Sargeras for a long time too during Legion.
The RP scene is great and MG has less of the CRZ effects or it’s at least grouped with the other RP.
Server identity really sells it for me.
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Yeah, it wasn’t always like that. But now, I’m just a lonely Horde.
I moved my Alliance toons from Proudmoore to Tich so that I can have all my toons on the same server.
Tich is Horde-dominated, but you can still see Alliance running around SW and Oribos. Of course the trade chat won’t be as active but as I said, Horde-dominated.
And when on Dragonflight release day you’re on a heavily populated server and you can’t log in because of a waiting line, you will complain you can’t get in. You’re better off staying where you are at for now, because it’s dead because it is at an end of an xpac.
I like being the underdog. I was Horde on Sargeras for a long time too during Legion.
The RP scene is great and MG has less of the CRZ effects or it’s at least grouped with the other RP.
Server identity really sells it for me.
I don’t mind being the underdog, but the world just feels so empty when leveling any of my alts. I like that all of my characters are almost as old as the server, but the ‘MM’ in MMORPG’s doesn’t apply to the overworld.
You could easily become the best player ever on your dead server by getting back to back server firsts.
But if you’re sketchy about it I’d recommend boosting an alt on one of the above servers, or even just leveling one on the next xp buff event that overlaps with timewalking.
tbh it doesn’t matter because everything is cross faction / cross server anyway
Wouldn’t it matter for world questing though, at least having the appearance that there are other people playing the game?
i mean if that matters to you, sure. but the majority of the world content is grouped anyway, think zm rares
Depends on your end game content. If you only M+ then server doesn’t matter.
I personally don’t switch my toons to other servers. I pretend they are locked there forever.
I just make a new toon. The grass isn’t always greener on a bigger server. Patch days, launch days will be a mess.
On your low population server, it should in theory be smoother
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I personally don’t switch my toons to other servers. I pretend they are locked there forever.
I just make a new toon. The grass isn’t always greener on a bigger server. Patch days, launch days will be a mess.
That’s a good point.
Maybe I should wait it out. One day Blizz could just pull the rug out from all of us and connect all the realms. A single large instance for all of us.
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Depends on your end game content. If you only M+ then server doesn’t matter.
My end game is typically alts, achievements, and more over-world type stuff.
I mean that’s pretty much Vanilla classic right now. Totally devoid of server identity
What do you mean by this?
But if you’re sketchy about it I’d recommend boosting an alt on one of the above servers, or even just leveling one on the next xp buff event that overlaps with timewalking.
This is some great advice. I do have some alt toons on Area 52 so maybe I should just focus on having them there.
don’t stay on a dead server it will totally ruin your gaming experience i did it forever even on the biggest expac of all wrath my alli pvp server server was dead and didn’t have many we had 2 guilds who actually raided back then but when i was finally forced to move at the end of cata and we couldn’t get even enough to raid. i spent like 10 yrs of my life on a dead alli server and when i moved boy did i have so much more fun i never realized what the game actually was until i went somewhere lively. if you wanna stay on a dead server like that might as well just play a single player game dead servers are garbage.