Server exodus when rated BGs come out?

[Clovis]

Taj mentioned this in his video thread but it made me think.

Once rated BGs come out, who would be interested in moving to a new server, a new single server? Three sets of multiboxers could pretty much dominate AB, and EOTs especially since we could easily hold a node each?

I'm on Sargeras which is Shadowburn -- we're a launch server and fairly competative BG (last season the #1 2v2 team was from Sargeras and I'm in the top 100 with my 5s team with a sub 1800 rating, could be fun

-Clov

[heyaz]

I like the idea of looking into moving onto a server together... but please not Sargeras
I started there - server is ridden with punk kids and haters, and worse - Shadowfail battlegroup... as horde

[Clovis]

Haha, I think you'll find that just about anywhere =P

For the first year and a half of the server it was dominated by horde with a 2:1 population - then a free server transfer to Detheroc was offered and most of the top horde guilds transfered and ever since its been a primarily alliance server.

You could always come over to the other side though 4 gifts of naaru on your healer can make the differnece in some games, but then again the horde racials probably make a difference in every game

Its pretty rare for me to run into a hater now a days, I've been running the Shamans for nearly a year now so most people know me and most of those people think I bring something positive.

Its been a long journey from joining BGs with 13k HP and getting "oh great, a botter and he's taking up 4 slots" to "Fuck yeah, Clov's here, gg"

[asonimie]

Of course everyone will want to offer their own server / battlegroup, but whirlwind is highly competitive and very active on both sides. Queues are always <1minute, even mid day. As far as 2000+ rated competition - I believe that all battlegroups offer the same high rated level of play. The days of "Bloodlust blah blah blah" are over in that sense. Now all that matters are levels of activity and Queue times.

First question is faction. I am alliance currently, but to be honest my vote is we run horde. It's just plain better and usually a more tolerable, mature player population than alliance. Second point - Battlegroup: I don't really care specifically, but I want HIGH population and plenty of active arena junkies floating around since I would most likely have to recruit a new healer for arena. If people are interested and serious about boxed pvp, please speak up. Its a ways off and we have time to talk it over.

[Naysayer]

I'm looking forward to rated BG's more than anything. If there were plenty of boxers dedicated enough, I'd move servers. My last guild and arena teammates went Aion so I'm looking for non-casual pvpers to play with.

[heyaz]

Of course everyone will want to offer their own server / battlegroup, but whirlwind is highly competitive and very active on both sides. Queues are always <1minute, even mid day. As far as 2000+ rated competition - I believe that all battlegroups offer the same high rated level of play. The days of "Bloodlust blah blah blah" are over in that sense. Now all that matters are levels of activity and Queue times..

Well, I believe you. But I won't recommend Reckoning. And I wouldn't wish Shadowfail on my enemies.

And I think we should all be Horde.

[Smoooth]

Why transfer realms? We can all just fresh roll teams on a realm and level to 10 or 20 and all level up in BG's together for fun. I would definitely do that.

[heyaz]

Why transfer realms? We can all just fresh roll teams on a realm and level to 10 or 20 and all level up in BG's together for fun. I would definitely do that.

That sounds about as much fun as herpes

[asonimie]

Money will clearly be an issue for some people, which is fine and understandable. I don't know if I have the fortitude to level any more toons though. I will again recommend whirlwind battlegroup for population and queue times, but I would like a different server. Horde pop on Uther isn't the best.

So, Horde for sure. Any objections?

[Clovis]

I'm also alliance currently but I've been considering going horde for awhile for the +spell power orc racial, all though since I started binding all 4 gifts of naaru to my healer that's won us a few games where I would have otherwise had to stop killing people and heal him (all though sometimes I still have to do heals but its enough to keep him from dying).

lol @ shadowfail

An yeah, as much fun as releveling would be, I would rather just pay the $100 in server transfer fees and possibly the extra for faction changes (all though $35 x4 is a bit).

My main shaman has 94 days played and my clones have 48 days. In addition to having all the relentless off peices and the rest furious they also have complete PVE sets since I pug quad raids =P

Anyhow, $100 (server xfer) I could get away with, but my wife would probably be pissed if she saw a charge from blizzard for $240 over my "stupid game" (she plays too mind you, she just thinks its incredibly nerdy for me to multibox).

But yeah, I'm with Asonimie - I just want high pop and some good competition, also should be a PvP server. If I didn't have the occasional horde to try and blow up before they fly away I'd /wrist while doing dailies.

-Clov