Vanilla Classic - Where to go?

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This thread has information on the Classic Era realm clusters:

Classic Era Server

Since I am not interested in playing Classic Wrath, I thought I would reroll on the Vanilla era pve server. I installed the CensusPlus mod so I could get a good idea of how many people are on it. It looks like there is a 2:1 Alliance:Horde ratio with about 2000ish alliance toons and about 1000ish horde toons. This looks like a progressed server, so maybe 30% of all toons are level 60, which means the leveling process looks mostly solo, but there is raiding at 60. WoW is designed to allow solo l…

The tl;dr would be that the NA PvE East cluster containing Mankrik and the NA PvP West cluster containing Whitemane would have the largest populations since they are the ones set up to receive free transfers.

There are smaller communities outside of these two clusters and all of the NA Classic Era clusters share the same battlegroup for BGs so I would encourage you to roll a lv 1 on any prospective realm and try chatting with the locals to find the place that’s right for you.