Guides, mechanics, comparisons and stories about life on the server.
Nobody asks this one straight out. They post “recommend me a server,” but what they actually mean is something else: “I log in at nine in the evening, I have an hour and a half, and there is nobody to run a dungeon with…
Read moreTwo servers, both on 3.3.5a, both with a sensible description and a live website. One is six months old, the other is in its fifth year. Where do you go? The question sounds like "which one is better", but the choice is…
Read moreZero. That's what it costs to join a private WoW server if money is all you count. Which is exactly why the estimate is deceptive: the main expenses here aren't monetary, and nearly all of them turn up after the charact…
Read moreYou walk into Ulduar and you already know what's going to happen. You remember where to stand on Hodir, the moment Mimiron switches phase, and you can explain the mechanics to a newcomer without opening a guide. For one…
Read more«What are the rates?» is usually the second question after «what version?». And it's almost always taken as a question about speed: x1 is slow, x10 is fast. Technically correct and practically useless. The experience mu…
Read moreA server's shop is almost always open to everyone: you don't need an account to browse the storefront. You can read the item list before the client is even downloaded, and learn more about the project from it than from…
Read moreChoosing a private WoW server is a bet you place with your time. Leveling to 80, reputations, professions, a guild, gear: a hundred hours at minimum. And if the project shuts down a month later, those hundred hours don'…
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