I would wait a while for it to settle and we can actually see where most people would like to go.
EU is such a mess of servers;
PvP only 2 realms????:
Golemagg PvP - Terrible name
Shazzrah PvP - How do you pronounce that?
RP:
Hydraxian Waterlords RP - Too long
Zandalar Tribe RP-PvP - RP realm is named after a Horde faction
PvE only 2 as well????:
Mirage Raceway Normal - Too long and stupid too
Pyrewood Village Normal - Why can't you just make single words...
NA
PvP legendary scarlet theme:
Faerlina PvP - Not that well known but still miles better than EU
Fairbanks PvP - Pretty decent
Herod PvP - Who doesn't know this one?? Amazing
Thalnos PvP - Fairly decent as well
Whitemane PvP - Probably going to be among the most popular, legendary name
RP one cool and another not so cool
Bloodsail Buccaneers RP - Great name
Grobbulus RP-PvP - Not that great
PvE pretty decent names here as well:
Atiesh Normal - Endgame!!
Mankrik Normal - Where is his wife?
Myzrael Normal - Alright
Pagle Normal - Well known
They really should've given something like Hogger to EU, literally anything is better than those EU names like holy wow who made this.
NA is getting legendary characters with a scarlet theme while EU gets the worst I've ever seen a server named not to mention the english realms are very few, RIP EU.
They are going all in on Scarlet Crusade names for NA PvP Realms, interesting choice. Probably going to end up rolling on Whitemane but I am not sure yet.
The reason for the unusually long names, is because Blizzard wanted to use realm names not used in World of Warcraft before.
Blizz wants the new realm names to be unique.
Unfortunately streamers will probably not announce their servers until after name reservations.
Unfortunately streamers will probably not announce their servers until after name reservations.
Invite to Asmon layer :)
Invite to Asmon layer :)
inb4 this becomes the new chuck norris joke in-game
6 months after layers go away
Invite to Asmon layer
Spanish top 20 guilds are gonna choose a server by sunday night.
I don't understand the server names debate. Does it really matter that much ? There are not much servers after all !
As a French the choice is going to be pretty straightforward, maybe I'll go to English realm but I don't really now what to expect.
Has a list with streamer and top guilds choices already been made ?
So will teebling be updating https://barrens.chat/realms.php when he gets back from getting his stripes?
roll herod if you partake in barrens.chat, that way we all can be friends in-game too
https://www.tygoro.com/
@Stfuppercut 25 servers in total, it will be carnage when the P2 starts :biggrin:
Seen that today haha. I'm still holding out that they will add realms as needed before launch. I would not be surprised if we seen another set released pending name reservation and character creation on the 12th. Surely they will add more as they see a massive interest level? Otherwise we are stuck with servers of 30k+ players with more than 10 layers. Based on the stress test yesterday, layer hopping is real and layering hopping is INCREDIBLY valuable early on. We did 4 runs 1-10 and layer hopped in each of them as a duo rogue/warrior. Our runs were all relatively clean. As a duo on private (skipping quests that are unrealistic on a launch) we typically had around 2hours - 2hrs 10 mins played. Our worst layer had us sitting at 4 hours (our 3rd attempt) and our best layer had us at a 1-10 time of 2hrs 15 mins (our 2nd attempt) where we received a group invite from a friend on an inactive layer.
Spanish top 20 guilds are gonna choose a server by sunday night.
Do you know where they will post this so I can avoid this?
20 guilds? That's no impact at all Erik, don't worry :smile:
20 guilds? That's no impact at all @Erik, don't worry :smile:
It's not only the guilds, all the other "free" spaniards will go there as well. Trust me, there will be alot. Especially if EU only have 2x PvP servers.
I'm actually legit worried
I played Agamaggan in Vanilla until lvl 30ish, had to switch server because you did not get a group or guild unless you were spanish. There were no english what so ever in the trade/general chat because it was silenced by all the spanish. It really destroyed the game for non spanish speakers.
Well, EU names are a bit underwhelming to be honest. A few weeks ago I had posted some realm name suggestions on the forums just for fun ( https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/nostalgic-realm-names/62629/ ) and I think it had some pretty good ones. Anyway, it looks like I will check Zandalar Tribe since I was interested in RP-PvP and it is the only one that I can play.
Zandalar Tribe RP-PvP - RP realm is named after a Horde faction
:biggrin: Technically, they are not Horde in Classic, but yeah, I was thinking about that too. Still, Sylvanas EU has a dominant Alliance playerbase, but the fact that Method used to play there as Alliance might have an effect too. I hope no faction dominates it, we will see.
Spanish top 20 guilds are gonna choose a server by sunday night.
Do you know where they will post this so I can avoid this?
I will update whenever they decide. Probably it will be a thread on the EU and NA forums.
I love the names. Very vanilla
Can certainly tell that NA is way favoured, but that is not a surprise since Blizzard is an American company.
I think I will have to land on Golemagg PvP then, since I'm EU.
Naming Conventions -
NA PvP (Including RPPvP) - SM/Naxx Bosses
NA PvE - NPCs (half theoretically friendly, half not if you don't count Mankrik being Horde only)
NA RP PvE - Reputation/Faction
Interestingly, the RP name theme carries over to Europe, but this time includes RPPvP in the convention instead of giving it a boss name.
EU RP (Including RPPvP) - Reputation/Faction
EU PVP - MC Bosses
EU PVE - Places/Towns
Interestingly, Both Oceanic and Russian break from these conventions with but not entirely - their PvE realms are both named after Friendly NPCs while their PvP servers are both named after enemy bosses. In this way their PvP server names still have a lot in common with other PvP server names (with the exception of the EU RPPvP server since it took after RP PvE instead), and also in common with the NA PvE server names.
At first I thought Atiesh broke the mold, except when you think about it... https://classic.wowhead.com/item=22589/atiesh-greatstaff-of-the-guardian is different from just "Atiesh". That's Atiesh <Hand of Sargeras>.