WoW - so where's everyone at?

[Equis]

Got Horde on Dragonmaw, thinking of trying alliance.

What's a good server?
Where's everyone anyway?

[Union Carbide]

Blackrock (PVP) - Alliance: The unofficial AUS/NZ server

My characters:
Sonjia - 35 NE Hunter (skinning/leathercrafting)
Unioncarbide - 23 Human Paladin (mining/blacksmithing)
Cheripoptart - 14 Human Warlock (tailoring/enchanting)
Stabbitystab - 14 Gnome Rogue (skinning/mining)

[jafd]

Doomhammer, Undead Priest. Just hit level 30. SILENCE!

[Calistas]

Calistas - 25 Shaman - Proudmoore

[Sean Tudor]

Doomhammer, Lvl 14 Gnome Warlock, Guild - Lupine Order. Had to start a new character when I switched servers.

[HRose]

I'm on Mannoroth, alliance side. If I could change I'd go Archimonde, again alliance side. Both Blackrock and Archimonde have an absolutely balanced faction population (for now).

[balut]

I have a bunch of low-level Horde characters on Doomhammer, but I'm not sure which one I want to use as my main:

Spleenshiv - Troll Rogue
Ashnak - Orc Hunter
Stampyde - Tauren Hunter (I'm so tempted to use this guy just so I can macro Interstate '76 poetry and randomly spout some off or recite if anyone ever says, "Hey Stampyde, how 'bout a poem?")
Magensha - Undead Warrior

Lately I've been using my Undead Warrior there because I don't think I've ever really explored the Undead areas.


Oh yeah, and then there're my regular Alliance characters:
Frostwolf:
Miho - NE Hunter
Smudge - Gnome Mage

Proudmoore:
Miho - NE Rogue
Glenfiddich - Dwarf Paladin

[Gunmetal]

Zul'Jin (Normal)
Impervious, level 34 Night Elf Hunter (Herbalism/Alchemy)
Fairchild, level 6 Human Priest

Lightning's Blade (PvP)
Alsaha, level 16 Night Elf Druid (Enchanting/Tailoring)

[Xemu]

Apparently it's statistically impossible for two people to be on the same server in WoW.

Earthen Ring: Alliance / RP
Vyrian, level 32 Human Mage
Primal, level 18 Night Elf Druid
(and a horde of lower level chars)

Dethecus: Horde / PvP
Soulbinder, level 19 Undead Priest

[SeleniaAeristh]

Archimonde, Horde

Dariya, lv 45 troll rogue skinning/herbalism
Selenia, lv 6 troll hunter, dunno professions yet

[Nicolas Quijano]

Elune, Alliance :
Fjord, lvl 19 Night Elf Hunter, + Coquin, lvl 18 Nighsaber pet (Skinning/Leatherworking)

Elune, Horde :
Kaboose, lvl 6 Taurens Druid, no profs yet

[Rywill]

If you want to play Alliance and PvP, several of us are on Frostwolf (me, Greg, balut, Rob O'Boston, Silverlight, Jeff, Jason, several others). We have a guild, Half Past Five, that you're welcome to join.

[Brad Wardell]

If you're not into PvP, there's a number of us on the Uther PVE server. Look for me as "Draginol" on there.

[Euri]

I'm playing mostly on Gorefiend(pvp)/Alliance, as Turzem. Level 25 rogue. I have a level 29 mage on Sargeras/horde, too, named Coulin.

[Kunikos]

Blackrock (PVP): Guild DecendantS (with Unioncarbide)

Lumina - Lvl 32 Gnome Mage
Numina - Lvl 9 Night Elf Druid
Brickhouse - Lvl 4 Dwarf Hunter
Twostepmamba - Lvl 4 Human Rogue

[Ephraim]

I'm playing Ephraim, a Night Elf Priest, on Archimonde. Currently level 27, hoping to get 28 sometime tonight.

Looks like I'll be fighting at least one QT3er there :)

/Eph

[RichardC]

Looking at screenshots, since it's not out here until February.

[Mike Cathcart]

- Earthen Ring, level 25 NE warrior
- About 80 characters at level 5. Various servers, factions, classes, and beards

[Sean Tudor]

Amazing how everyone seems to be on a different server.

[jafd]

There are nine of us in the QT3 guild on Doomhammer, Horde-side; more than half of them have not logged in for over 10 days.

I can only assume that this is because everyone hates me. Hooray! More loot for me!

[_Fury_]

Amazing how everyone seems to be on a different server.

Mostly due to a factor of real life friends, guilds, etc., I'd imagine. In any case, I'm on Daggerspine, Alliance, and I've got a 40 Hunter, 35 Priest, and now 19 Warrior. Having dabbled enough, I think the Priest is the keeper for my first 60. They start out weak as kittens, but she's turned into a frightening soloer in the past few levels, and I see her surpassing my Hunter in kill-ability in the next level or two.

[JM]

There are nine of us in the QT3 guild on Doomhammer, Horde-side; more than half of them have not logged in for over 10 days.

I can only assume that this is because everyone hates me. Hooray! More loot for me!

My trial ran out yesterday - but in all honesty, I'd picked the wrong class to start with and got a little bored of Tauren Shaman. Once I started a Dwarf Hunter I was much happier.

Now I just have to wait for EU open beta/release. Sigh.

*twitches*

[Kunikos]

Here's my character Lumina's profile on Thott:

http://www.thottbot.com/?profile=Lumina.Blackrock

[Matt Perkins]

There are nine of us in the QT3 guild on Doomhammer, Horde-side; more than half of them have not logged in for over 10 days.

I can only assume that this is because everyone hates me. Hooray! More loot for me!
Speaking of this, I play a character on that server from time to time... who should I look for?

I'm Gimd, the Orc Shaman.

[GuildBoss]

There are nine of us in the QT3 guild on Doomhammer, Horde-side; more than half of them have not logged in for over 10 days.

I can only assume that this is because everyone hates me. Hooray! More loot for me!

I've been meaning to try a Horde character so I'll do it on Doomhammer. I'll give you a buzz.

[Malderi]

Someone said Archimonde is balanced? Isn't that the server that most of the gank guilds were going to?

If I get WoW, I'm going on a PvP server. I played DAOC on Bors for a while (medium/low pop server) and I'm tired of the low populations. If Archimonde is balanced, and from what I've heard probably has a high population, would that be the one to go to?

[TitoLandrum]

I feel like I have to respond to this thread since none of my servers were mentioned.

Malygos - Tito - lvl 19 dwarf priest
Malygos - Webster - lvl 4 gnome rogue

Garona - Hattoro - lvl 15 troll hunter
Garona - Crull - lvl 1 undead rogue

ShatteredHand - Tito - lvl 9 NE druid

[HRose]

If I get WoW, I'm going on a PvP server. I played DAOC on Bors for a while (medium/low pop server) and I'm tired of the low populations. If Archimonde is balanced, and from what I've heard probably has a high population, would that be the one to go to?
Definitely. Peoples are really underestimating the population problems on the long term. Choosing the right server is *extremely* important and not just for PvP, but also to be able to build groups easily and do stuff in PvE after these first months pass.

Archimonde is a very solid server with an high population well distributed along the day. Perhaps it is considered an "hardcore" PvP server but I don't think there's really a different quality of players from server to server.

This is a snapshot I took five minutes ago:
Archimonde
Horde: 1486
Alliance: 1541
--
Total: 3027
At least for now it's the best choice. With the time the unbalance toward the alliance may increase but I don't see a better choice available.

[MattKeil]

I'll finally be cracking the shrinkwrap on my CE when I get back to LA tomorrow. Looks like my Alliance char should go on Frostwolf and my Horde should go on Doomhammer. Those are the servers with the Qt3 concentrations (such as it is), if I'm tallying correctly.

[WarrenD]

My characters:

Horde:Warzok,Orc Hunter,level 26 on Doomhammer

Alliance:Warfran,Dwarf Warrior,level 27 on Hyjal

Jafd,what is your character's name I'll look you up on Doomhammer,not part of this Guild but would be fun anyway,duoing works well.

[jafd]

My name, surprisingly, is jafd. I'm jafd on 3 different servers. The royal We comes in six packs.

[sluggo]

I'm on Uther, as that's where my guild is at. Showing my creative range, I'm on as "Sluggo". :)

My L21 warrior is on hold a few more days through the holidays, but I should be back soon plugging my way through the remaining Thelmesar and RedRidge quests before moving on to the Wetlands. This is my first MMO, and I'm always happy to join a group, so send me a /tell if you see me wandering about. (I suspect I'll be starting up a Horde character soon to see that part of the world as well.)

[AlReed]

I'm on Jul'Zin

Gough - 26 Human Mage (Tailoring/Enchanting)
Cathra - 19 Drawf Priest (Herbalism/Alchemy)

I've also tried to start an undead warrior...we'll see if that gets anywhere. I like it so far.

I like the priest much more than the mage since it's much easier to find a group.

I'm getting bored of the game though -- what is the game giving me back? Doing VC for the first time was quite a thrill. It had great pacing, created a real narrative even without any semblance of role-playing...it created a memory for me an actual experience I wanted to tell folks at work about. Since then it's been all downhill.

Maybe it's because I'm doing basically the same quests for a 2nd time with the priest. I just ventured over to NightElf land -- maybe that'll be new and different enough but it seems like more of the same.

[jafd]

I'm doing basically the same quests for a 2nd time [...] it seems like more of the same.
Does it? Does it really?

[AlReed]

Fair enough -- I guess was expecting that I'd discover new quests the 2nd time around since with my first char I didn't know what the hell I was doing.

I also expected there'd be more class/race-specific quests. With one char I start in Stormwind, with the other I start near IF...but I still ended up doing the same stuff.

I guess Kudos to Blizzard for managing to re-use the content for different races.

[Mark Asher]

There seem to be about six different starter areas with unique quests -- Durotar for the orcs and trolls, the Thunder Bluff lands for the taurens, and the undead areas for the undead.

Alliance gets the human areas near Stormwind, the dwarven/gnome areas, and the night elf lands.

After you leave those areas the quests start to overlap. On the horde side you're going to get funneled to Crossroads and Silverpines and you'll probably end up questing in both no matter what race you play. I think it's the same for Alliance.

So you can get a unique experience playing Alliance and Horde, but if you play a second Alliance or Horde character, you're going to be repeating quests sooner or later.

There are over 2000 quests in the game according to Blizzard.

[Matt Perkins]

There seem to be about six different starter areas with unique quests -- Durotar for the orcs and trolls, the Thunder Bluff lands for the taurens, and the undead areas for the undead.

Alliance gets the human areas near Stormwind, the dwarven/gnome areas, and the night elf lands.

After you leave those areas the quests start to overlap. On the horde side you're going to get funneled to Crossroads and Silverpines and you'll probably end up questing in both no matter what race you play. I think it's the same for Alliance.

So you can get a unique experience playing Alliance and Horde, but if you play a second Alliance or Horde character, you're going to be repeating quests sooner or later.

There are over 2000 quests in the game according to Blizzard.

On the Alliance side, I play a dwarf... I got funneled to Loch Modan and I've been leveling up there. I'm going to pretty much cap out, for the most part, at around 20th level (probably 18th or 19th normally). Then I'm being funneled to the Wetlands. But if I were a human, I'd would have been playing in Redridge and the like for similar levels. And would have been funneled somewhere else than the Wetlands, I'm believe.

So there are different paths within the Alliance, at least before 30th level...

[Union Carbide]

Actually, there's a lvl 10ish quest from Goldshire that takes Humans to Loch Modan. Stormpike Delivery or something like that. Still, even though I've rolled tons of characters I don't think I've ever quested in Loch Modan for more than 1 or 2 quests.

[Rob O'Boston]

My level 22 human mage has only been to loch modan once (a great trogg quest), and I've thought many times of going to the excavation there, but for the most part I've been in Westfall, Red Ridge, and as of the last two sessions I've started on Duskwood. I may not get to the wetlands for weeks.

My ultimate destination of course is the Altar of Storms.

[Kunikos]

Actually, there's a lvl 10ish quest from Goldshire that takes Humans to Loch Modan. Stormpike Delivery or something like that. Still, even though I've rolled tons of characters I don't think I've ever quested in Loch Modan for more than 1 or 2 quests.

Killing Mo'Grosh Ogres in Loch Modan around level 20-25 is pretty fun, because normally you don't get to fight them until a few more levels later south of Darkshire (lvl 30+).

[Kunikos]

On the Alliance side, I play a dwarf... I got funneled to Loch Modan and I've been leveling up there. I'm going to pretty much cap out, for the most part, at around 20th level (probably 18th or 19th normally). Then I'm being funneled to the Wetlands. But if I were a human, I'd would have been playing in Redridge and the like for similar levels. And would have been funneled somewhere else than the Wetlands, I'm believe.

Any place is better than Redridge IMO. I wouldn't go there until you have at least two levels over whatever quest you are have there.

[Matt Perkins]

On the Alliance side, I play a dwarf... I got funneled to Loch Modan and I've been leveling up there. I'm going to pretty much cap out, for the most part, at around 20th level (probably 18th or 19th normally). Then I'm being funneled to the Wetlands. But if I were a human, I'd would have been playing in Redridge and the like for similar levels. And would have been funneled somewhere else than the Wetlands, I'm believe.

Any place is better than Redridge IMO. I wouldn't go there until you have at least two levels over whatever quest you are have there.
Yeah, we (myself and my wife) went there, got a bunch of quests... got discouraged because they were harder than the levels they were given at, went back to loch modan did some quests lines we missed, went back to redridge and spanked some peeps around.

[GregB]

I'm on Eredar. Undead Warlock named Bonsey.

I'm going to try an alliance character shortly on the same server.

[Silverlight]

I'm on Eredar. Undead Warlock named Bonsey.

I'm going to try an alliance character shortly on the same server.
Just so you know, you can't have characters from two factions on one server.

[Matt Perkins]

I'm on Eredar. Undead Warlock named Bonsey.

I'm going to try an alliance character shortly on the same server.
Just so you know, you can't have characters from two factions on one server.
I thought you could if it wasn't a PVP server?

[Ranulf]

Actually, there's a lvl 10ish quest from Goldshire that takes Humans to Loch Modan. Stormpike Delivery or something like that. Still, even though I've rolled tons of characters I don't think I've ever quested in Loch Modan for more than 1 or 2 quests.

Deliever a shield? Theres a quest in Loch Modan to take plans for a stormpike shield to a guy in Stormwind. I only have a low level human rogue so I've not done much questing over there. Stayed in Dwarf and NE lands mostly.

[Silverlight]

Actually, there's a lvl 10ish quest from Goldshire that takes Humans to Loch Modan. Stormpike Delivery or something like that. Still, even though I've rolled tons of characters I don't think I've ever quested in Loch Modan for more than 1 or 2 quests.
Deliever a shield? Theres a quest in Loch Modan to take plans for a stormpike shield to a guy in Stormwind. I only have a low level human rogue so I've not done much questing over there. Stayed in Dwarf and NE lands mostly.
They're two separate quests, one from Stormwind to Stormpike, one reversed. (I thought I remembered having to bring the finished item back to Stormpike after delivering the plans, but Thottbot doesn't list any such quest.)

[SeleniaAeristh]

Someone said Archimonde is balanced? Isn't that the server that most of the gank guilds were going to?

If I get WoW, I'm going on a PvP server. I played DAOC on Bors for a while (medium/low pop server) and I'm tired of the low populations. If Archimonde is balanced, and from what I've heard probably has a high population, would that be the one to go to?

Eh, Archimonde is okay. The horde/alliance ratio really depends on where you're running around at. I'm fine at, say, one thousand needles, but if I run up to hinterlands or alterac I seem to be out numbered severely. Stranglethorn Vale is pretty nice for fighting in smaller groups, although alliance tend to just stand around the level 30+ quest place alot. Still haven't quite figured that out yet :(

I don't really have much knowledge as to how the other pvp servers are however, so its kinda hard to compare :( Overall, for all the cries of zerg and such, it does seem pretty even on both sides.

And I'll be looking for ya Ephramin, least once you get up in levels :p

edit because I can't spell

[JM]

I'm on Eredar. Undead Warlock named Bonsey.

I'm going to try an alliance character shortly on the same server.
Just so you know, you can't have characters from two factions on one server.
I thought you could if it wasn't a PVP server?

You are correct. I had one horde and one alliance on doomhammer, a PvE server.

[dannimal]

I've got an undead Warlock on Suramar (I think). Account name is dannimal, character name is different.

I figured I'd use it as a test bed, and then look into the Qt3 horde-guild once I got settled.

[Ranulf]

Actually, there's a lvl 10ish quest from Goldshire that takes Humans to Loch Modan. Stormpike Delivery or something like that. Still, even though I've rolled tons of characters I don't think I've ever quested in Loch Modan for more than 1 or 2 quests.
Deliever a shield? Theres a quest in Loch Modan to take plans for a stormpike shield to a guy in Stormwind. I only have a low level human rogue so I've not done much questing over there. Stayed in Dwarf and NE lands mostly.
They're two separate quests, one from Stormwind to Stormpike, one reversed. (I thought I remembered having to bring the finished item back to Stormpike after delivering the plans, but Thottbot doesn't list any such quest.)

No, you dont have to bring it back to him, just deliever the plans.

[MikeOberly]

I'm on Alleria,Horde level 22 Warlock,name is Melo.I mostly join with guys in my guild who were also in my CK/WB squadron back in the day,but I've also teamed with some random players who were really good.Surprising how few idiots I've run into,honestly.

[jafd]

Account name is (censored)
Never tell this to anyone. Ever.

[Silverlight]

Account name is (censored)
Never tell this to anyone. Ever.
The account name is irrelevant if you picked a good password. The only reason that Blizzard (and other companies) tell you not to share your account name is because most people pick very very bad passwords.

[GuildBoss]

Account name is (censored)
Never tell this to anyone. Ever.
The account name is irrelevant if you picked a good password. The only reason that Blizzard (and other companies) tell you not to share your account name is because most people pick very very bad passwords.

But there's still no practical reason to give it out. It's not needed for communication with friends or anything, AFAIK.

[Sean Tudor]

Met up with some random players tonight for a party of 5 to attack the Ogre Elite encampment at Loch Modan. High quality play with everyone covering each other. We had a good mix of warlocks, mages, and fighting guys. This game just keeps getting better and better.

[WarrenD]

Met up with some random players tonight for a party of 5 to attack the Ogre Elite encampment at Loch Modan. High quality play with everyone covering each other. We had a good mix of warlocks, mages, and fighting guys. This game just keeps getting better and better.

Yeah,I did that one a little while ago and it was a blast,well set up area,took everything we had as a group to get it done.

[Ephraim]

I managed to achieve my goal of level 30 before the end of day Tuesday, so all is well.

I will say that I'm finding playing a Priest in this game a heck of a lot more challenging than anything else I've ever experienced in DAoC or Shadowbane. I've played casters, tanks, and hybrids, with my favourite character type being the melee/healer hybrid so far (the Friar is my first MMORPG love). The Priest in WoW is just so much more complicated.

I'm not sure whether or not it's the insane amount of aggro that healing causes, or just the sheer amount of options available during any given encounter, but I find that I'm always on my toes. Between Shielding, HoTing, Flash Healing, and tossing out the occasional DoT, I can't look away from a fight for an instant.

Selenia, I'll definitely be looking for you, if only just for a /wave, once I get funneled to more Horde dominant areas. A lot of my guildies (Defenders of Order) have been fighting the good fight in Stranglethorn, and I'm almost ready to join them. I don't mind if PvP slows down my levelling, there really isn't any big rush to 60 in my mind... At least not until the actual rewards for PvP are in.

/Eph[/i]

[McBain]

The horde/alliance ratio really depends on where you're running around at.

That's how it is on any server. The Alliance just loves to hang out at the Lake Camp in STV, server be damned. I don't think I was ever able to turn in any of the mastery quests without rushing in there gangbusters style and spamming Fire Nova + CL on some hapless gnomes.

You are going to see more Horde in 1k Needles and Un'Goro. You are going to see more Alliance in the Badlands and Searing Gorge. That's just the way it works out.