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Something strange I've seen on Onyxia that I can't figure out is the increase in popularity on things like PvP and achievements.

The honorable kill counts of this realm compared to past Frostmourne seasons for example is drastically different. I saw several players that only played TBC who got well over 100k HK in less than a year. That's a whole lot of play time. Yet on Frostmourne barely anyone crossed that threshold. It wasn't a thing.

On top of that I've recognized a whole lot of players interested in achievement farming. I'm usually pretty alone in that yet I see all these players around me competing now. I've never seen this many players focus on these types of achievements before. Many are nearly reaching the TBC limit for achivs which is really weird. Players rarely even crossed 9k achievements on Frostmourne.

Why do you think that is? Farming battlegrounds and achievements are not usually very popular at all. Historically they definitely haven't.

It's a long live server, mean not only you get 80 in 3 days, finish all raids in 6 months and w8 new fresh. It's for ppl who want a long trip and get as much content as they can
Hope someday private can allow us to play a more long journey, like from classis to bfa? And on a moder client

New fresh 3.3.5 who focus only on 80 looks so boring, most ppl tired of it

Could just be how differently people approached yet-another-WotLK-realm Frostmourne and progressive-vanilla-to-WotLK-one-of-a-kind-multiyear-experience Onyxia.

One word for each is enough, I think.
Onyxia: Journey
Frostmourne: RAIIIIID!!!

Ya I have a love/hate perspective toward it. It's nice to see people care about these things I felt alone in. The dark side of it though is now I'm out farming these rare things and players keep getting in my way. I suppose it will be better for some raid/dungeon achievements upcoming next year.

Battlegrounds are strange too. I just casually get into a game and those same people always seem to be there. They're always playing. And some of them are terrible at the game not even doing arena. I question if they could be bots.