Just got the word today upon logging into Warhammer Online that our server, Bretonnia, has now been designated as a “low population” server.
In an effort to address a general population imbalance that tends to favour the forces of Destruction (and to cut costs I’m sure) Mythic has been channeling players as it selectively prunes the server tree.
This is a big hassle since mail and items that are currently in the in-game postal service will be lost. For a lot of players (myself included), this means dealing with hundreds of items in postal transit spread out among multiple characters. (Edit: Just finished transferring/selling off all my in-transit items! Phew!)
I’m thinking I’ll be heading to the Volkmar server as that has the best ratios (such as they are) out of the server choices offered for Bretonnia emigrants:
Volkmar Server Statistics (Waralytics.com)
| Group | Destruction | Ratio | Order | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | ||
| Total: | 9,556 | – | 1.08:1 | 8,871 | – |
| Rank 40: | 627 | 6.6% | 1.14:1 | 548 | 6.2% |
| Rank 20+: | 3,831 | 40.1% | 0.98:1 | 3,901 | 44.0% |
| Tier 4: | 1,306 | 13.7% | 1.06 | 1,234 | 13.9% |
| Tier 3: | 1,917 | 20.1% | 0.95 | 2,023 | 20.1% |
| Tier 2: | 3,216 | 33.7% | 1.07 | 2,999 | 33.7% |
| Tier 1: | 3,117 | 32.6% | 1.19 | 2,615 | 32.6% |
These numbers are from Waralytics so they’re not completely accurate due to limits in non-official server data collection but they are sufficient for making a fairly informed choice.
Destruction still has a numerical advantage on Volkmar but it’s not as big an advantage compared to Badlands, Ungrim, Gorfang and Ironfist. Hell, on Gorfang, Destruction has a nearly 2:1 advantage over Order.
So anyway, it’s off to Volkmar I go!
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