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Hi all, A bunch of friends and I are planning on getting WoW in two weeks (after our finals are over) and I'm looking for some advice on choosing servers.
We're planning on playing Alliance and doing a little PvPing but we haven't decided if we want to do a PvP or a PvE server. I've been reading the awful official forums and these forums for a while and I'm mainly worried that the ganking might be excessive on the PvP servers. So what I'm hoping people can provide is the following:
1) Your server name
2) How is the community on the server? (e.g. are people generally nice?)
3) How bad is ganking? (if its a PvP server)
4) How are the main guilds? (helpful, arrogant, neither, etc?)
5) Is there a big foreign presence that affects the gameplay? (NOTE: I have nothing against foreigners, but if a server has lots of people who will be sleeping when I'm playing it could affect the gameplay)
6) Anything you've heard about other servers?
7) Any thoughts or suggestions you might have about choosing servers?
I'd really appreciate any help people could offer. I played in ST on a PvE and in OB on a PvP and it was pretty fun on both, but I want to make sure that we pick a good server before we put a lot of time into the retail game.
Is anyone or any site making a guide for the servers?
Thanks a lot! I hope I can be a good member of the community here after I get into the game!
Hi all, A bunch of friends and I are planning on getting WoW in two weeks (after our finals are over) and I'm looking for some advice on choosing servers.
We're planning on playing Alliance and doing a little PvPing but we haven't decided if we want to do a PvP or a PvE server. I've been reading the awful official forums and these forums for a while and I'm mainly worried that the ganking might be excessive on the PvP servers. So what I'm hoping people can provide is the following:
1) Your server name
Nathrezim
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2) How is the community on the server? (e.g. are people generally nice?)
Great. Everyone I've met has been friendly and helpful.
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3) How bad is ganking? (if its a PvP server)
I am only level 18, so I haven't gotten into too much pvp. From my higher level guild mates though, I hear there is a good spirit to the communities pvp elements.
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4) How are the main guilds? (helpful, arrogant, neither, etc?)
Well our guild is one of the main ones. We are called Evolution, and we are a Horde guild. We help everyone we can, whenever we can. We have a strict honorable PvP rule, and we are spreading the word that corpse camping is not cool. We've had a positive effect I think, and I've even heard, in passing, other people in towns telling others not to corpse camp as it starts a bad trend. I've seen people get corpse camped, and then kill the person later and /salute them. Most people don't retaliate with the same stupid behaviour, at least in my experience.
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5) Is there a big foreign presence that affects the gameplay? (NOTE: I have nothing against foreigners, but if a server has lots of people who will be sleeping when I'm playing it could affect the gameplay)
Ummm...I haven't met anyone outside of the US yet.
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6) Anything you've heard about other servers?
No, sorry.
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7) Any thoughts or suggestions you might have about choosing servers?
Well ours is a PvP server, so take that into consideration. I think that is the type that makes the most sense, as an orc running into a dwarf in the woods and not fighting doesn't make much sense lol.
I would pick Nathrezim as it has no lag, no queues, a good community, and a low but growing population. Now is a great time to get in and try to make a name for yourself/guild.
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I'd really appreciate any help people could offer. I played in ST on a PvE and in OB on a PvP and it was pretty fun on both, but I want to make sure that we pick a good server before we put a lot of time into the retail game.
Is anyone or any site making a guide for the servers?
Thanks a lot! I hope I can be a good member of the community here after I get into the game!
Nice to meet you! Have a :xgift: on me!
Swing by our guilds site at evoguild.org , and stop by the Nathrezim forums at worldofwarcraft.com to get a better feel for the server if you'd like.
Thanks a lot myndreach! I'm glad to hear that your PvP server sounds good. I also checked out the official forum for Nathrezim and horde was congratulating alliance on their raid! Glad to see a cordial group!
Now is there anyone else out there who can talk about some of the other servers?
EDIT cool! I didn't realize this was now a sticky! Thats a really good idea because I'm sure there are other new people who would love some suggestions!
2) How is the community on the server? (e.g. are people generally nice?)
People are generally nice, yes. Most of the people I've talked with are in the game to have a good time. Its a low population server but I've noticed the newb areas are full enough. ~15 people in NE area. (Note, the alliance is slightly outnumbered by the horde, or so Ive heard)
3) How bad is ganking? (if its a PvP server)
Im not too sure, haven't leveled up on the server too far yet. But I read the forums and hear the reports of raids or cance PvP encounters. The atmosphere is friendly, horde congrats alliance on their raid, and alliance congrats the horde on their surprise attack, etc. There are some pretty good PvP stories posted occassionally.
4) How are the main guilds? (helpful, arrogant, neither, etc?)
Im not too sure if there are many "main" guilds yet. I haven't looked into it too much, but from what I read on the forum they seem pretty good. They have horde or alliance pride, but are friendly overall.
5) Is there a big foreign presence that affects the gameplay?
I've yet to meet any foreigners. Just people from east coast to west coast.
6) Anything you've heard about other servers?
I used to play on WarSong. Wow. Crowded like crazy!
7) Any thoughts or suggestions you might have about choosing servers?
At first I was concerned about joining a low population server because I thought it would have negative effects on my game play experience, but I gave it a shot. It ended up growing on me. I enjoy having a smaller community, it's more fun. Give things a try is my advice.
Me and my friends have finals now too, but were squeezing in an hour here and there right now.... but over break =)
2) How is the community on the server? (e.g. are people generally nice?)
People are generally nice, however, on every server there are some of them who try to be funny when people ask questions like: "How does Serena Bloodfeather look like?", "A Harpy, ahahahah"... 'humor'.
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3) How bad is ganking? (if its a PvP server)
What does ganking mean exactly? Something like high lvl's beating on lower lvl's? I'm not sure about this, but I keep hearing people say the crossroads are under attack by pretty high lvl alliance guys, but maybe the same is happening on the other side for the alliance players, so can't really say much, since it's really hard to see the whole picture in such a big world.
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4) How are the main guilds? (helpful, arrogant, neither, etc?)
Haven't noticed much about guilds, I see them more like normal players. They do try to recruit you when they see you're a nice person and nice player etc.
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5) Is there a big foreign presence that affects the gameplay? (NOTE: I have nothing against foreigners, but if a server has lots of people who will be sleeping when I'm playing it could affect the gameplay)
I dunno how there could be more foreigners than people from US right now... I'm playing from a trial account, given by a friend to a friend of mine, and shared by like 4-5 people, just trying to play the game whlie we can (poor us). I live in Europe and I can say it's pretty nice to see the world quite empty for an hour or two. Sometimes when you want to do a quest, it gets a bit frustrating when the guy you need is killed or kept being killed by some other guys from another party. So, actually, I do enjoy the time when people from the US are sleeping.
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6) Anything you've heard about other servers?
Not really, I heard that some of them have queues, but this one has none and it's really lag free, even when playing from Europe.
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7) Any thoughts or suggestions you might have about choosing servers?
I'd say, pick the one closest to you if you got a rather poor connection. Otherwise, you can pick about any server on any location. I've noticed that I can play pretty much lag-free with my average ping of 200 on the US servers. While if you compare that with a game like Warcraft 3, a ping of 200 is pretty high and you'll notice how slow your guys react.
Also, pick a server you like, as in PvE, PvP or role-playing. Personally, I find PvE kinda boring, PvP is pretty exciting when you're getting chased by pesky elves and their allies. If you're unsure, I'd pick PvP. There are quite some places where you can level up safely if you are unsure whether or not to go out and fight the other faction. It's a lot of fun too to duel your friends once in a while. Can't tell anything about role-playing server though, haven't heard much about it, it doesn't sound much fun to me, by reading the name of it.
2) How is the community on the server? (e.g. are people generally nice?)
I've met maybe 2 or 3 annoying people, and I've /played 3 days or so.
3) How bad is ganking? (if its a PvP server)
Being a night elf, Darkshore is pretty much always swarming with horde, but it seems to be like that on most PvP servers, due to poor location. It's easily avoided by leveling in your 20's in the wetlands or something, which is what I do. It's also nice to be able to kill some horde whenever you want by heading down into Ashenvale. :)
4) How are the main guilds? (helpful, arrogant, neither, etc?)
I'm a part of small guild, maybe 20 people, comprised mostly of older people.(20-30 years old I'd guess) I haven't noticed any arrogant guilds.
5) Is there a big foreign presence that affects the gameplay? (NOTE: I have nothing against foreigners, but if a server has lots of people who will be sleeping when I'm playing it could affect the gameplay)
No foreigners that I've been aware of.
6) Anything you've heard about other servers?
Frostwolf has queues. Our guild has a horde faction on Frostwolf, and that's what I hear from them.
7) Any thoughts or suggestions you might have about choosing servers?
PvP is fun. The only good orc/troll/tauren/undead is a dead orc/troll/tauren/undead. :)
1) Ner'zhul
2) The people are generally nice ... I'm really nice to people :P
3) I've found that now that i'm in Tauren Mill there are a lot of Alliance ganking ... I'm innocently killling some bear or some human farmer and BAM a party of 3 lvl 30 comes and rapes me over and over again (usually about 3 times or so) ... If you ask me there is ganking wherever u go, so just get good so you can avoid it, and in return kill gankers :D
4) Well I'm hoping to get our guild up to be a main guild and we're really friendly (http://www.killingforrecreation.com) ... as for other guilds, I haven't seen any asses so far ...
5) Not from what i've seen for foreigners, but it doesn't really matter for many of us are on at all times, 9am, 6pm, 4am, etc ... just depends when we feel like WoW :D
6) I've heard that some of the eastern servers are rather ****ty for queues and lag ...
7) Be horde, it's very fun to kill night elves :D I can tell you what alliance is like later when I get onto Gorgonnash, our guilds alliance server ...
2) Depends on the time in my opinion. When lots of people are on people love to try to be funny and wrtie sarcastic replies to questions. Personaly I always follow the golden rule (do unto others....) and help people out if im not too busy. But overall the comunity is great.
3) Ganking: only happened to me twice so far. first was by a lvl 50 or so Night Elf pker. Those of you horde on warsong know who im talking about :) The second time was by 25 or so raiding alliance when I was walking around in stonetalon.
4) I don't really pay attention to the guilds that much. The guild Im in is just a fun guild and we don't really take stuff too seriously. There are plenty of guilds out there that are recruiting though.
Not a lot of help here but here's what I've got so far (I'm still learning to, also starting new characters on a few other servers) ...
1) Your server name
- Gilneas PvE Server
2) How is the community on the server? (e.g. are people generally nice?)
- So far everyone seem's great although I tend to Solo
3) How bad is ganking? (if its a PvP server)
- N/A
4) How are the main guilds? (helpful, arrogant, neither, etc?)
- Sorry I have no information on that front
5) Is there a big foreign presence that affects the gameplay? (NOTE: I have nothing against foreigners, but if a server has lots of people who will be sleeping when I'm playing it could affect the gameplay)
- I play as an Orc and there are way to many damn Humans running around for my liking, not that I have anything agains Humans... their better than Gnomes, don't get me started on the Gnome infestations... :)
6) Anything you've heard about other servers?
- Sorry no help there, still to many people in my area are either new to the game or waiting for Santa to bring it :)
7) Any thoughts or suggestions you might have about choosing servers?
- None of any help, Gilneas is great for me in Ontario Canada but I don't know of any utilities like UOTrace (From Ultima Online) where you can Ping all the servers and check Packet loss etc... If I find something I'll post it but Blizzard doesn't seem to release lists of IP's and such.
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