NA PvP Pacific has two options and the streamers have confirmed no Fairbanks. Looks like I'll be rolling on Fairbanks.
Looks like I'll be there too. That's my region and I'm rolling PVP, and probably non-streamer PVP at that.
Are there any massive (Asmo-like) streamers to be wary of in the EU? Like, 500+ Twitch viewers on average kind of 'massive'.
Looks like I'll be there too. That's my region and I'm rolling PVP, and probably non-streamer PVP at that.
Nice. Dungeonboss and his guild will be rolling there on alliance side, I'm pretty sure I will actually be rolling alliance with them.
At this point, it is evident that it isn't about avoiding "streamer servers" but just having something to complain about. They give people 2 server names, that they are going to avoid and people now complain about the names? lmao kids these days...
One thing to consider is a streamer will have all the streamers constantly advertising that server, hopefully for a good while. It's likely that will keep the population decently high, although that remains to be seen.
Ironically the same reason may make non streamer servers have a consistently high population, although it won't be as advertised unless a new player thinks about looking up where the streamers are playing so they can avoid them.
New info saying that Brazilians are going Thalnos. This could make Faerline the East Cost choice for many, if streamers go Herod.
Last I heard from Sodapoppin, he was deciding between Faerlina and Herod, leaning Faerlina. Assuming Soda/Asmon/Esfand still plan to play on the same server, that makes whichever server they don't pick between Herod and Faerlina the go-to east coast PvP server. Thalnos has already been claimed by the SA community.
With Thalnos and Fairbanks being the only two confirmed "non-streamer" servers and with Brazillians flooding Thalnos - Fairbanks is the only safe server. Soddapoppin has mentioned Faerline as his potential top pick. Many other streamers have been considering Herod. Soooooo Fairbanks OR...
https://clips.twitch.tv/SuspiciousGorgeousFiddleheadsWow?tt_medium=clips&tt_content=recommendation
"Whatever server we roll on, we are fucking that server hard dude". And hes not wrong. The server will be fucked. Fairbanks it is!
Some testing was linked on Dungeongrind discord today taking players from Mountain, Eastern and Pacific timezones and having them test their pings on retail pacific and eastern servers. The difference in pings was about ~20 ping consistently. There were a few outliers, but this remained pretty consistent. The main determinant in choosing a timezoned server should be how the server time correlates to your actual timezone and how raiding etc will work with your RL schedule. Do NOT be concerned about your connection though because the difference is negligible. And of course... consider the community you will be playing with first and foremost...
I think it's safe to assume that no server will be "safe" from an specific group or community; there are not a lot of server to choose from and there are a lot of groups and communities that are going to play, so at the end of the day everybody will end playing on a server with a streamer, or an obnoxious guild, or a country specific community. People will have to coexists and behave, and those who don't behave will have bad reputation on that server and will be isolated. It's a game win 15+ years and everybody here is a grown up; just be nice :)
We're trying to single out the lesser evil at this point daisyKutter. I've played enough games with large BR communities to know I won't be playing on Thalnos, and most of Asmon's community is only marginally better purely for the fact that they can speak English.
Good manners won't get you very far with either of these groups.
Streaming was a mistake.
Stfuppercut, I'm happy to hear that ping isn't a major issue. Raid times, however, will mean it's important for server time. Or at least, it very well could be. A West Coast server guild could run 9pm-12am server, putting me online until 3am at the earliest.
I'm really hoping they make a decision today or tomorrow about their server so we can have one that's neither them nor BR on the East Coast.
By the https://classic.wowhead.com/spell=28137/slime-stream of https://classic.wowhead.com/npc=15931/grobbulus , I say ! I thank the https://classic.wowhead.com/spell=25292/holy-light that most of this streaming https://classic.wowhead.com/spell=17197/maggot-goo & attention whoring https://classic.wowhead.com/npc=15925/toxic-slime together with their army of fanboying braindead https://classic.wowhead.com/spell=16370/maggots are based in the New World ! Let 'em stay there and if they try to cross the big water and come to the Old World - I hope they drown and get eaten by a https://classic.wowhead.com/npc=15661/baby-shark !!
The South American Spanish Community has not yet decided on a server.
They were going to go on Thalnos but apparently changed their plans when they heard Brazil was going there because they apparently don't like playing with the Brazilians.
I'm going to be streaming on a PVE server & I have 0 followers ATM so my impact will be inconsiquential. 😁