How to pick a realm for world pvp?

[cmeche]

All my toons are on an average sized pve server and I'm looking for a change. Looking up realm population stats, there are some highly populated pvp realms that are grossly lopsided to one faction. So I'm thinking of rolling some dks on one of these realms purely for some world pvp action against the higher populated faction.
So before i start the lvling process.........Is this a good plan?

[MiRai]

It's tough to say. It really all depends on if the more dominant faction has the motivation to play along with
you. If they do have the motivation to play along... at what point does it get boring or frustrating for you when
your less populated faction allies cannot give you any reinforcements?

I think Kil'jaeden is actually the highest populated PvP realm with an almost perfect balance. Unfortunately,
even KJ sees very, very little world PvP (most likely because of zerg guild Ruinous). In fact, today they crashed
(or came very close to crashing) Kalimdor thanks to their raid on Orgirmmar.

I guess you have to actually do some research on the realm(s) you're looking to possibly roll on and see if
there is anything exciting going on. Unfortunately, everyone is most likely being a bum and just sitting in their
main cities twiddling their thumbs.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Find a relm from the data center near you if you want low ping rates.

[Littleburst]

World PVP is dead besides the major cities and Tol Barad, as far as I know. So I wouldn't tranfer my toons just for world PVP. You kill people quite easily in world pvp.

Personally, it's more something that's fun for 30 minutes or so when you're bored.

[Tonuss]

I think it's probably like Fenril said-- it depends on how active the world PVP is. If you transfer to the smaller population side of an unbalanced server, you might find heaven because enough people join in to keep it lively. Or you might regret it because the moment you gank one player, ten or fifteen show up to camp you for hours and no one on your side wants to help. Or just as frustrating, no one bothers to show up at all, and your only option is to camp that single player until you pass out from boredom.

Although I'm wondering now if there's a place where you could get somewhat reliable information on where there might be decent world PVP. You can always ask on the WOW forums, though you'll need to dig through a lot of BS in the hopes of finding good info.

[MiRai]

To be quite honest (just thought of this), if you want world PvP, if you want people to fight back... then you
should roll Horde on Kil'jaeden and then pick a fight with any member from Ruinous/Rhuin/Ruin/Ruin Gaming
and in less than 30 minutes you'll most likely have more characters camping you then you'd like. With my new
RaF I'm going to eventually roll some Horde on Kil'jaeden because I'd like to mess with Ruinous myself.

I'm sure others from Kil'jaeden can back this up.

[Umbaalo]

To be quite honest (just thought of this), if you want world PvP, if you want people to fight back... then you
should roll Horde on Kil'jaeden and then pick a fight with any member from Ruinous/Rhuin/Ruin/Ruin Gaming
and in less than 30 minutes you'll most likely have more characters camping you then you'd like. With my new
RaF I'm going to eventually roll some Horde on Kil'jaeden because I'd like to mess with Ruinous myself.

I'm sure others from Kil'jaeden can back this up.

This sounds like it could turn into something really fun, I might have to consider trying this also.

[Kang]

To be quite honest (just thought of this), if you want world PvP, if you want people to fight back... then you
should roll Horde on Kil'jaeden and then pick a fight with any member from Ruinous/Rhuin/Ruin/Ruin Gaming
and in less than 30 minutes you'll most likely have more characters camping you then you'd like. With my new
RaF I'm going to eventually roll some Horde on Kil'jaeden because I'd like to mess with Ruinous myself.

I'm sure others from Kil'jaeden can back this up.

Added bonus - you get to world pvp against LoB wont be jackasses about it though.

[MiRai]

Added bonus - you get to world pvp against LoB wont be jackasses about it though.
Kang, I'm waiting for you to front the cash for us all to transfer to Horde so we can have our fun with Ruinous.

[cmeche]

Well I'm looking to maybe transfer an 85 healer with gold/supplies and roll some new dks. Also figured that joining a low pop faction on a high pop realm would almost guarantee getting into TB.

Since 25k is the limit, any hints on transferring about 100k in mats?

[MiRai]

Well I'm looking to maybe transfer an 85 healer with gold/supplies and roll some new dks. Also figured that joining a low pop faction on a high pop realm would almost guarantee getting into TB.

Since 25k is the limit, any hints on transferring about 100k in mats?
Limit for 81+ is 50,000 gold (http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_US&articleId=20558).

[Multibocks]

just buy shit that will sell well on AH to transfer more gold.

[fleaplus]

It's lots of fun to get 5x rip/rake up on someone tanking Garrosh, which is undispellable (except for dwarf racial) and almost unhealable due to the lag their own raid created, then watch the tank die and Garrosh pick off each player one by one.

On the other hand, ruinous can be downright annoying if you are just trying to get dailies done or relax. You almost have to have a stealth class to be able to get around them and get something done.

It is too bad BCJ is gone now on kil'jaeden. I remember them spamming "Need more stormwind mage tower will summon" for hours in /2. Fun times.

[cmeche]

Opinions on trying out Mal'ganis ally side? If not that then I might just go kj horde.

[MiRai]

Opinions on trying out Mal'ganis ally side? If not that then I might just go kj horde.
Goon Squad will most likely eat you for breakfast. :) I can't really comment though since I've never played
on a faction that has been grossly underpopulated before.

[Svpernova09]

Opinions on trying out Mal'ganis ally side? If not that then I might just go kj horde.


Don't come to KJ horde until you're ready to deal with 3 full guilds that will camp your 12-16 hours a day. You may think you like world pvp, but KJ has no world pvp. KJ has a zerg guild that zergs just about anything it can.