I don’t get the difference. Can someone please explain. Is every zone phased with people from every server? Where does that stop? Like if I am in Orgrimmar on Area 52, will I see the same number of people if I was in Orgrimmar on a low population server since zones are phased? Like are there certain zones that are only server specific? I’m just not understanding how phasing really works and if it is applied equally everywhere.
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Low population savers are for new players
Players that are learning
And people who dont wanna deal with a mass amount of other people
Appreciate the answer but that didn’t answer any of my questions lol… what makes them low pop… if you could read my post again, thank you.
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no lag!!!
The main difference is that lower population servers have many fewer players in guilds on that server, especially raiding guilds.
The number of people in zones isn’t a big difference anymore due to Blizzard’s server tech. Area 52 doesn’t have hundreds of people around the Orgrimmar AH, even if there’s actually hundreds or thousands of people over there.
Thank you, this is what I was wondering… so like Mount Hyjal, I take the portal in Orgrimmar to there… That “Zone”, when I enter it, wont be any less or any more crowded based on my server, right? That’s what I am tryign to get at… so when it says “Server Population: Low”, all that is referring to is the number of people that are in guilds or are on that server playing but has no impact on any zone or instance right?
No, it won’t. Zones like Mt Hyjal are cross realm all the time, even on servers like A52. Same goes for Zuldazar or Kul Tiras.
The low population is just the number of people playing on that server. It has no impact on how many people are in zones.
Low pop realms = smaller auction house, less guilds which significantly affects how viable raiding is, you will see the same amount of people in the real world
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^^ What Liruthiun said. In general you wont notice any kind of difference because of the server tech and shards. What you will notice is less active guilds, and less people posting in the AH, which means less stuff/variety and prices may be a little different. Anyone you see with a * next to their name is someone NOT on your server/connected server. As far as I am aware, you can’t openly trade with those people or see anything they do on the AH, you can only group with them.
It means your server won’t die at the launch of a new expansion.
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It stop when they have one server for all the population. My guess is they are consolidating realms on the same hardware. They call it connected because of naming for characters.
Low pop=less stuff for sale on the AH.
Other than that, you get sharded in with other realms, so no difference really. Unless you wanna raid mythic. Then it matters.
Unless there has been a change, the tags low, high, full refer to the number of created characters on a realm. Not currently online. Not single accounts, but all characters ever created. Your AH experience is likely to be awful unless you are on a full one. [Also, unless you are the reason for everyone else’s awful AH experience on the low pop servers] Really, go to a full server. Put up with the queues at expac drop. It is worth it.
Low Pop= Single Player gameplay you never want to do any type of difficult content
Medium Pop= You want to never use the AH and you might want to raid at some poinit
High Pop= You are opening the choice for mythic raiding f you desire it.
Full Pop= High Population except you won’t be able to play on launch days.