Took the back half of wrath and all of Cata off, but interested in coming back for MoP pvp, so basically looking for the server/faction combos that will have the most potential players for arenas/rbgs.
I am Likely going to be playing horde, but what will the go to alliance realm be as well? Don’t really care either way wpvp or not.
Also curious as to how bad the bot situation is for battlegrounds right now? I remember it being utterly rampant (to the point where 17/20 “players” in a wsg where dk bots) in wrath classic being a primary reason I left initially =x
I did the exact same thing. Quit before the last season of Wrath, and now back for MoP. Faerlina seems pretty populated for Horde pvp? At least I hope so with all my characters there. Also interested in this answer
Horde is Mankrik or Faerlina
Alliance is Pagle, Benediction, or Atiesh
Realms are first to last from highest to smallest population. I believe Faerlina is the Horde PvP realm and Benediction is the Alliance PvP realm. Avoid Grobbulus as it’s a dying realm that will be propped up in phase 1 of MoP by the World PvPers, but as soon as something new releases they will ditch the realm like they did when fresh came out.
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Private servers are your best bet. Classic is abandonware.
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Faerlina for Horde and Benediction for Alliance.
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Grobbulus if you want to hear screeching alliance when they lose.
Faerlina for Horde and Pagle for Alliance. I’d say Benediction, but with the whispers I’ve been getting out of the leadership discord… Bene might go the way of the others should Blizzard do nothing.
(Specifically because of talk of going Horde so they would move to Faerlina).
Get on Grobbulus. Big enough to find groups, small enough to recognize names and have a feel for ‘server culture’ or at least broader community.
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Yeah, let’s recommend the only 3K population 5.4.8 server that’s 75% Spanish speaking and is completely dead during NA evening hours lol.
MoP private servers aren’t what they used to be.
I would take a hard pass on Faerlina if you want to keep your sanity. It’s the worst server with the worst people on Classic. Mankrik Horde is a good choice imo.
Better off rolling PvE for MoP anyway, all but like one server is imbalanced and you won’t have to deal with getting ganked around world bosses.
That’s literally how Classic is right now 
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If you logged into the game more than the forums you’d know that is far from true. Cata Classic servers have been busy all day, every day since launch.
I don’t think you’ve ever played a private server where you have to deal with 300ms ping and few English speakers.
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lol, no.
Cata has been dead af with a handful of gold sellers, raid loggers, and whales propping it up. The gold sellers alone now make up the majority of Classic’s playerbase and GDKPs and alt runs are almost entirely what is being logged in warcraftlogs. You see more Spanish than English in Trade/LFG/Dungeons…in a NA server.
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Since launch no, there was a a few months where it was dead after classic fresh. Now it has picked up significantly since MoP prepatch has come closer.
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Lol
Horde sit in their capital city and do nothing while we squat in Garrosh’s throne room
I don’t know what dead server you play on, but that’s not been mine or the majority of players experience and you can’t really argue with the numbers.
Cataclysm servers are one-sided in terms of faction, everyone get to play together. Also, we have cross-realm grouping so you aren’t limited to only playing dungeons with your server.
You think Mankrik, Firemaw, Benediction, Page, Faerlina & Gehennas are dead when they are all averaging 6-8k raiders each week? That is more players than the most popular private servers and there’s many realms and keep in mind, this is the end of Cataclysm, there’s not much to do except prepare for MoP.
I’ve been on Mankrik for the past two years and the only time it felt dead was during ICC phase at the end of Wrath. The vast majority speak English.
Every version of Classic have people sitting in the capitol city, go look at LFG, there are PUGs nonstop and people constantly farming H+ dungeons to gear alts.
The Horde guild I play with on Mankirk constantly has 25-40 people on every evening and we’re also doing groups for dungeons, raids or old content for transmog.
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The people who gaslight to simp for Blizz are wild.
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Okay there Williamferal we trust your opinion
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What? Zerging down one person? Alliance is so bad.