New to warmane which server should i play?

[Flashback155]

Like i wanna play a really populated server but cant decide between icecrown and lordaeron, is icecrown aways over 10k like lordaeron is?

[dike]

choose blackrock obv - no que, no lags. both lordaeron and icecrown lags like **** at peak time

[PeNguiNx]

Cry baby poster above, ignore him.

Both are popular, but lordaeron has larger queues. Both queues can be skipped, (Icecrown if you donate at all, and Lordaeron if you donate and spend 5 coins on your character on lordaeron, (like a pet or mount because pay 2 win is disabled)).

Icecrown is 7x, Lordaeron 1x and hardcore (buffed raids/dungeons, etc...)

[Sjokomelkbeast]

choose blackrock obv - no que, no lags. both lordaeron and icecrown lags like **** at peak time

Ignore this person. I don't know about Icecrown since I almost never played there. I have played there a little have not lagged.

I have played on Lordaeron since the release, and have never lagged except 1-3 times when there has been ddos-attack or something. Normally 99 % of the time there is no lag on Lordaeron.

The little i'v played on icecrown has been without lag.

[Webber90003]

Icecrown is x7 rates for everything, so its like the easy mode on most games.
Lordaeron is x1 rates for everything, so its like the hard mode on most games.

Both realms run at population cap during peak times and have no lag. Just depends on how hard you want your experience to be.

[Seth2208]

As Webber90003 said. Lordaeron is meant more like hardcore experience, no RDF and raids tweaked to be harder, 1x rates, you will have to be social to get into dungeons and raids... Icecrown is normal WotLK realm. Rates are 7x, so you will level faster, no difficulty tweaks, exactly what you would expect from WotLK, and all perks of RDF, if you want to use it at latter levels, up till the raids, RDF will take care of you, if you are not very social.

[Critically]

Like i wanna play a really populated server but cant decide between icecrown and lordaeron, is icecrown aways over 10k like lordaeron is?

Lordaeron is hardcore realm with slowly leveling speed (x1 rates), it has no dungeon finder, no legendary weapons, buffed bosses and it's progressive realm. It reaches 12,000 players online every day with 1000 players waiting in queue.

Icecrown is new realm, two other realms have been merged into one, Icecrown. It is more blizzlike, it has dungeon finder, no buffed bosses, legendary weapons and it's with fast leveling speed (x7 rates). It's new realm and population is high, not as high as Lordaeron, but it still manages to reach 12,000 players online.

If you want hardcore realm, go play in Lordaeron.
If you want fully blizzlike realm, go play in Icecrown.
Do not worry about population, they both are very high populated and they both reach the top.

[Webber90003]

Lordaeron is hardcore realm with slowly leveling speed (x1 rates), it has no dungeon finder, no legendary weapons, buffed bosses and it's progressive realm. It reaches 12,000 players online every day with 1000 players waiting in queue.

Icecrown is new realm, two other realms have been merged into one, Icecrown. It is more blizzlike, it has dungeon finder, no buffed bosses, legendary weapons and it's with fast leveling speed (x7 rates). It's new realm and population is high, not as high as Lordaeron, but it still manages to reach 12,000 players online.

If you want hardcore realm, go play in Lordaeron.
If you want fully blizzlike realm, go play in Icecrown.
Do not worry about population, they both are very high populated and they both reach the top.

is x7 rate really blizlike ?

[Lynea]

is x7 rate really blizlike ?

If you compare it to retail wotlk, of course not. If you compare it to retail wod, it's really similar rate (lol).

[dike]

Cry baby poster above, ignore him.

Both are popular, but lordaeron has larger queues. Both queues can be skipped, (Icecrown if you donate at all, and Lordaeron if you donate and spend 5 coins on your character on lordaeron, (like a pet or mount because pay 2 win is disabled)).

Icecrown is 7x, Lordaeron 1x and hardcore (buffed raids/dungeons, etc...)

Ignore this person. I don't know about Icecrown since I almost never played there. I have played there a little have not lagged.

I have played on Lordaeron since the release, and have never lagged except 1-3 times when there has been ddos-attack or something. Normally 99 % of the time there is no lag on Lordaeron.

The little i'v played on icecrown has been without lag.

ignore those two scrubs, seems like they play spriest. just go and try it by yourself - as melee both of those realms are unplayable

[Islingr]

ignore those two scrubs, seems like they play spriest. just go and try it by yourself - as melee both of those realms are unplayable

or someone needs fibre-optics and a better PC than a toaster if he lags so much

[Deathmastered]

If you compare it to retail wotlk, of course not. If you compare it to retail wod, it's really similar rate (lol).

As said here, it is similar to wod speed. And it is blizzlike to wotlk. BlizzLIKE, not blizzCLONE. Similar, but not the same.

ignore those two scrubs, seems like they play spriest. just go and try it by yourself - as melee both of those realms are unplayable

or someone needs fibre-optics and a better PC than a toaster if he lags so much

What Islingr said. I'm not saying Icecrown never lags (and Lordaeron's population is similar), but it is very very rare and has happened to me only in ddos occasion.

[dike]

or someone needs fibre-optics and a better PC than a toaster if he lags so much

ye dude sure, like running wow with 100+ fps will help me to get rid of that OUT OF RANGE bug on my warrior, even if i have 40ms. now go back to ur toaster and dont touch mine.

[Deathmastered]

Where is the bug on it? There is a minimum and maximum range for charge, if you are outside it, then you cant charge. And yes, onway obstacles are being included.

[TheArtfulDodger]

I find it funny how people refer to Lordearon's 1x rate as "hardcore". If the same task takes 7 times as long to accomplish it means it's "hardcore".