Let's Talk: WOW Classic Server Health
I provide several options in the end if you'd rather bypass to those, but if you do have a moment I recommend starting at the beginning. We first started out on Stalagg at the start of classic gold wow. Herod was really the server that we had coordinated to land on with several different guilds. However, queue times along with a bleak faction balance caused us to not roll there. Boy was that a mistake.
Stalagg was a fine server at the beginning. It was about 55/45 Horde favorite. It did have queue times that continued to plague it. Soon after launch (September 3rd Source) free transfers were provided. Faction balance remained intact because it seemed either side dropped an equivalent number of WOW players. This went on for a few weeks and it became evident that the Alliance were shedding WOW players compared to Horde which resulted in Heartseeker being hilariously Alliance dominant. In the end it had been about 33/66 Horde favorite.
The transfers were just getting started, although now 33/66 is not something that's impossible to conquer. Just before the launch of World Bosses along with the Honor system another wave of transports occurred on November 8th (Source). From the time the weekend ended the bottom had given out on much of the Alliance inhabitants. With fear of being camped worse than they were Alliance missing and much more people that is casual's leveling. On November 11th they left free transfers faction specific to Horde (Source). It was far too late however. We were requested to make a decision.
The feeling of failure as a GM that didn't make the correct choice at the time that is suitable is immeasurable. By leaving them on a server that was impossible to play 16,, I failed my guildies. We knew that we needed to cheap wow classic gold move not automatically because of the camping but since the host economy was non existent and there were not any new WOW players to recruit.
