Starting on Nostalrius

[ChewyMeps]

Hi Guys,

I got pointed to the Nostalrius project a few hours ago and am in the process of downloading the client.

I had a few questions i you wouldn't mind.

How active is the community still? Obviosuly its 8 months on since the launch. How many players are on the server and is the community still friendly and active or has it been a short lived phase?

Any recomendations for somebody starting fresh. I played vanilla and TBC back in the day and was disapointed with MOP. Looking to get back to the roots

Cheers

[Dreez]

Hey and welcome to Nostalrius!

the community is very active as you can see on the mainpage, PvP servers is even more active than the PvE server

just start playing, you'll enjoy it^^

[ChewyMeps]

Will do, any adive on picking alliance / horde. I generally like alliance but hate it when horde out number too much.

Also any advice regarding classes? Many post indicate hunters / rogues are a little too many. I would like to have come value and not be one of the majority.

(Petty i know but it is who i am lol)

[Noxm]

Population Census PVE Server : https://forum.nostalrius.org/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=24560

Population Census PVP Server : https://forum.nostalrius.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3641

[Tosicx]

Community here is almost no different than any other server. Up to 97% of total players here did the following (on retail obviously):
Vanilla
- Cleared naxxramas40
- Were rank14

TBC
- Killed M'uru pre-nerf
- Were gladiators at least 3 out of 4 seasons (sometimes even all 4!)

WoTLK and other expansions aren't worth mentioning and i suggest you do not bring them up into the conversation.

Welcome to the server, enjoy your stay

[Dreez]

are you trying to say you haven't been a multi r1 glad in TBC? lol noob

[Drain]

PvP is booming, with most quest areas still active. At launch, every quest area in the game was overly packed, meaning it was actually difficult to get anything done. Now that era has moved on, and the players you run into you can typically group with. There isn't 30 people waiting on the boss centuers in the Barrens anymore, or any crap like that. But your problems will return when you hit 60 and notice everything of value at 60 is now camped out 24 7. Many things below 60 are camped by 60s because they can't secure anything higher vs other 60s. When you go to Arathi and see 60s fighting over level 35 elementals, you'll see what I mean. But the main drawback for the realm is the lagg and crashing, which is more frequent than on PvE. Since we're further in the timeline, we are the lab rats for content. Every time something new releases, it's broken in some way that repeatedly laggs up or crashes the server until it's fixed. PvE, coming later, benefits from all the fixes without all the problems.

PvE however is newer and offers no transfers from PvP. This means most people that care about Nostalrius are already invested in PvP and probably not going to start over. This realm is more dependent on newer players coming to it, and you bringing friends with you, unless you just enjoy solo questing until 60(with which you can't PvP). But due to less lagg/crashes, untaken names, less competition on farm areas; it's not without promise. Leveling on a fresh server that isn't overloaded has benefits when it comes to the economy. Things are cheap, gold isn't inflated yet, and farm areas aren't over camped 24 7 by tag warring jerks. I would have moved to PvE if they gave me transfers, but I'm one already invested in PvP from launch, and not just going to start over from scratch. Other players who don't have a row of 60s and already raiding can do it instead.

[Hawt]

Community here is almost no different than any other server. Up to 97% of total players here did the following (on retail obviously):
Vanilla
- Cleared naxxramas40
- Were rank14

I know those stories m8 ))

[Finalflash]

HEY GA(me)MER1 XD