https://ironforge.pro/population/tbc/?locale=US&realm=PvP-PvP%20RP
Most PvP servers are leaning 65%+ horde now, with a significant amount over 70%. There’s only three alliance leaning pvp servers (That aren’t dead). 60-40 is the upper limit of faction balance before it becomes unplayable.
If you’re on herod, sulfuras, blauemex, etc, I strong suggest you xfer and get it over with.
Sincerely,
ex-skeram alliance
I wonder how many people would notice faction imbalance if they didn’t have these stat sheets
Just go to any summon stone and see the 20 horde and 2 dead alliance makes it plainly obvious.
Well, you’d walk outside of shatt and try to do any activity and realize there’s 3 horde per 1 alliance.
I guess that doesn’t shut me down like most people. I play with friends. We do the ganking. More horde is just more honor.
For sure, but there’s a certain point where you just say “no summons make your own way”, when ideally if the servers were more balanced there would be an equal amount of players trying to summon on either side.
https://imgur.com/zsbhZyE
Bro where’s my summon?
Grobbulus is about 60-40 Alliance to Horde, but Horde hold their own just fine.
Muauahahahahaha thank god I left skeram, and look at my little jewel Thunderfury, sitting at a healthy balanced population
60-40 is about the limit where it’s bearable, anything beyond that is just gank city
Where do you come up with this? It doesn’t become unplayable.
I think the best fix to this ‘faction imbalance’ thing would be to change the nomenclature of Normal and PvP servers to PvP Optional and PvP Forced so people would understand what it means.
yeah is called Blood elves
Early on in Classic Era it was about 50-50, but then transfers opened up and a bunch of Alliance came here.
I dont know that this holds. I see plenty of Alliance doing their thing, they even had their own layers on release, just questing, and going about their business.
I played on Skeram from launch until ~4 weeks after BG release. I experienced the change first hand. The server was 55-45 when free transferes opened up, and within weeks the server jumped to 70-30, and slowly decreased to 78-22 as people quit during phase 1 & 2 until everyone left shortly after BG release.
You and a lot of other people. I didn’t spend any significant time playing on Skeram, but I was on the Alliance side of a 65:35 Horde:Alliance server during P2.
I do remember the forum activity of the time. Of course, I wasn’t on this character, as this was a Horde Reroll in mid-phase 3 (for the longer BG queues).
While I, too, use ironforge for looking at server pops, it’s still far too early in the expansion to make any sort of definitive “overall balance is out of control” statements. Many, many players still leveling and doing PvE shenanigans like attunements, professions, and gearing.
Of course, what’s truly glaring, is that the ones with 99%+ faction are mostly Alliance. Weird…
meanstwhile deviate delight, while incredibly small, still has a stable balanced population. And I would take this over the imbalanced megaservers where alliance are farmed like cattle any day.
What is that thing at the top of your screen that looks like a fake achievement? Is that like an npc scanner, and you plugged in enemy faction names?
Or is it a certain addon?
And we had some pretty good times there if I recall. I still kinda regret leaving Fairbanks, but I also wish that the other 4-5 big guilds didn’t leave before us.
It was like, we could fight and hold our ground for a while until it was finally 50 against 12. That was fun. Also, organizing 3 full 40m teams to escort into BRM for Molten Core was def fun as well.
Miss you bud. You don’t know this, but I’m traveling for the next several months and I won’t be in the game (possibly up to 1yr. ) But hmu anytime.