The "Decent Server Library" - Discussion thread

[bone91]

I am posting my personal list here, of servers that I have played on/tested. I would like others to add their personal favorites and explain why they think they should be added to the list. You may also disagree with one of the realms I posted, but be sure to be reasonable.
Also please keep the fun servers out of here. Rates also shouldn't matter, however bugfree content and especially proper class balance (spells/talents) are a must.


There are 3 rather big and serious Classic WoW servers:

Vanillagaming.org
500 People
Every instance including Naxxramas scripted
Donation/Vote rewards, nothing overpowered - needed to keep the server up
Working pathfinding system
XP rate x15, all other rates kept low for server economies sake

Worldofscriptcraft.com
2000 People
Heavy focus on PvP, some old Warcraftmovies legends rerolled there
very strong community (see above)
Instant level 49 (if wanted)
XP rate customisable from 1 to 5
Every instance scripted
No donation/vote rewards, donations are welcome though
Pathfinding working
Easily enough players to raid/pvp in whichever timezone you are

wow-one.com
2500+ People
Balanced focus on PvE/PvP
Donation/Voting for balanced rewards
XP Rate x12 or x1 or instant 60
Pathfinding working
Every instance scripted
Easily enough players to raid/pvp in whichever timezone you are



The Burning Crusade unfortunately does not have a lot of really good servers

wow-one.com
600+ People
Every instance scripted
PvP working almost all the time
Progressive content, currently T4/S1
Donation/Voting possible for balanced rewards
Balanced focus on PvP/PvE


wowen.hellground.pl
2500 people
XP rates x2
Balanced focus on PvE and PvP
PvP/PvE regardless of the timezome you are in
Every instance scripted, progressive content T5/T6 as of lately
Pathfinding working/in development

LastWoW.com
1500+ people
XP rates x20, honor x2, arena x2
Balanced focus on PvE and PvP
However instances not scripted as well, players focus on PvP

Arena-tournament.com
250 people
Instant 70, S3 equip
Most bugfree server out there, most known for pure arena players
Donation for rewards, nothing overpowered
Originally launched by Kisha and me years ago, if your personal focus is on arena, check it out
I DO NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS SERVER ANYMORE



Wrath of the Lich King seems to have a few servers left, however expect those to update to Cata when the time comes

Rising-gods.de
2500-3000 players
German, but support for English players
Everything scripted well, progressive content
Players focus on PvP, however the team is tends more towards PvE
completely blizzlike rates

Arena-Tournament.com
2500-3000 players
Intant level 80 and S7 equip
Farming better gear in BGs and Arena
Complete focus on PvP, all PvE is disabled
Most bugfree server out there
Pathfinding
Donation for rewards, nothing overpowered



Cataclysm has only 2 servers (that I know of) which could be considered as relatively bug free and big

WoW.freakz.ro
Up to 4000 players on 3 realms
Stuck on 4.0.6a for a while
XP rate x20, customizable by the user, blizzlike rates in endcontent
Most free of class bugs
Progressive content
Mostly Romanian but international support
Everything scripted
Focus on PvE
While being focused on PvE, this realm provides an insanely good amount of working spells and talents. I didn't think this was even possible for Cata yet, but they provide a really balanced PvP enviroment and I enjoy playing on there myself. The international realm lacks players, but be sure to check it out and be amazed yourself.

Monster-wow.com
Up to 5000 players on 3 realms
XP rate x12
4.0.6, updating to 4.2.2 slowly
Progressive content, therefore the update to 4.2.2 atm
Balanced focus on PvP and PvE
Completely international, subforums for every language
Please do NOT play on this server, unless you are really desperate for new content and you do not care about PvP or working spells/class balance in general

[Unholyshaman]

I've been playing a bit on WoW-One and ScriptCraft the last few days and they are both pretty neat.

The donations/votings are shoved a bit forcefully down user's throats on WoW-One (mainly from pressure of the actual guilds requiring you to get decent gear ASAP), but they seem to have a much bigger population / activity level than ScriptCraft.

ScriptCraft I found very nice and the lack of donation gear lets decent geared players really stand out.

I've been doing a bit of multi-box leveling on both servers, but I don't think I will continue to play on either for much longer however. Simply just do not have enough time to first invest in gearing up and then raiding.

If someone has a spare decent geared character on either WoW-One or ScriptCraft that I could have / borrow to raid and pvp with then I'm sure I could organize some way to thank you or at least some rep.

edit: Something you could consider doing if you have more time is add links to each server's recruitment thread that they have posted on here.

[bone91]

edit: Something you could consider doing if you have more time is add links to each server's recruitment thread that they have posted on here.

That is actually a really great idea. Also thank you a lot for the feedback. I'm going to do that a bit later after digging up all the threads.

[shindaustin]

Server I've started playing on is ChaoticUnited.com
Level 19 Cap
-5-25 Players on 1 Realm
-Fully custom quest line from 1-19
-Isn't much of a Twink server
-Mostly a custom based PVE server.

Just one of those servers you do not have to devote every night to. You can pop in and out while still going along with your day. Every item is obtainable somehow and the donation items are the same as BiS, which are also easily obtainable. Just came back to WoW so i didnt want to have to go and get all my Keybinds/macros and all my knowlege back. Server is still in basic stats. Devs are working along side players since the population is so low.

--Btw the Admin to this server is a mod here, if he doesnt agree with my post he has permission to delete it

[Gramish]

I play on The Rebirth, which is without a doubt the best vanilla wow server, 100% blizzlike and least bugs of them all.

[bone91]

Scriptcraft has been taken down, but there is Mc-WoW.eu now.
It doesn't have close to as many players, but lets you get to 60 instantly if you bring friends and provides good scripts.

[Unholyshaman]

Scriptcraft has been taken down, but there is Mc-WoW.eu now.
It doesn't have close to as many players, but lets you get to 60 instantly if you bring friends and provides good scripts.

What happened to ScriptCraft? Any specific reason it was taken down?

Edit nvm it seems the admin went all emo because his friend or fellow admin quit or something.

[Lucille89Hall]

There is always some problems what makes me feel suck...

[bone91]

Well basically Gummy said that he had to close the server because of money issues. I mean, I get that. They never had any ads, participated in rankings or handed out gear for donations (D1 or D2 for $50 would've not hurt anyone). But seriously, it's his own fault for not participating in rankings. They help out every server. And if he had just announced it a few days in advance, people would've donated to keep the server running, I can assure you that. Same thing happend to Arena-Tournament when Kisha and I just set it up. Ran low on money, made an announcement (didn't even ask for donations) and they kept flying in. People want to keep playing. And donating $5 once is still cheaper than 15 every month for a game they don't like anymore.

[Harambeqt]

wow-one.com (Feenix WoW 1.12.1)
600+ People
Every instance scripted
PvP working almost all the time
Progressive content, currently T4/S1
Donation/Voting possible for balanced rewards
Balanced focus on PvP/PvE

LastWoW.com
1500+ people
XP rates x20, honor x2, arena x2
Balanced focus on PvE and PvP
However instances not scripted as well, players focus on PvP

WoW-one is great, alot of potential - and wow! they have developers that actually knows how to fix shit.
Not like last-wow - Been around for a few years, only fixing bugs tru the database dont know C++ and the admins are retarded.

[bone91]

I've been looking up for Vanilla servers for a while now and I have checked out Q-Gaming.org, WorldofScriptcraft.com and Feenix. With 7 days /played on Scriptcraft, 4 on Feenix and 2 on Q-gaming.

I have played WoW since 2005, starting out on privates and then moving on to retail relatively fast. From what I gathered the only thing Feenix (wow-one.com) has going for it is it's rather high population of about 1500 (estimated guess, I noticed they lost players and heard so too). Compared to the other too, it has an incredibly high amount of game mechanic and class mechanic bugs such as a few spells. It's PvE scripts are basically non-existant and people are 5man-grouping up to farm Naxx trash. They hand out the best gear in the game of donations and pretty good raid gear for voting.

Scriptcraft has a playerbase of 400-500 (at peaks) right now. It doesn't provide the most blizzlike experience if leveling is a big part of the game for you, as most people start out at 49, take a day to level to 60 at 5 times experience and then farm pre-raid BiS gear right away. However it is a really nice server with a somewhat annoying community. No game breaking donation or vote rewards.

Q-gaming is pretty much Scriptcraft with less bugs in game mechanics and spells than Scriptcraft. Both are better than Feenix on these matters. From what I could gather Q-gaming might have the more accurate scripts than Scriptcraft too. Some people have been saying that Scriptcraft content was made easier (as in nerfed HP/Damage) to encourage the progress.


Basically if you want to make your choice between these servers, don't make it based on population. Make it based on what you want (class mechanics/scripts) to be working and on it's location. Scriptcraft is located in the US, Q-gaming somewhere in Europe.