I gave the server two and a half weeks. I really tried to like it. I DID like what the Admins had attempted with Emerald Dream as a classic server, but they completely dropped the ball on enforcing their own rules set on top of showing blatant favoritism for Alliance. The pair of rotten apple Hitler complex GM's the server is stuck with is another downer.
I could go into a list of specifics if you want, but at the end of the day it really comes down to the community being absolute shit. Absolute. Shit. I've had more friendly exchanges in League of Legends.
Edit - after all that hate, I'll post something useful. Server population hits about 1400 people roughly on the weekends at prime time, with it bouncing around the 800-900 mark at prime time week days. The server is primarily Euro with the player base in terms of the time frame people do instances. The server economy is surprisingly not crap, which amazed me. Horde side has better prices in terms of being noob friendly in getting stuff sold / purchasing. Population is about 66% alliance / 44 % horde, which is sweet as hell too.
Every class has bugs. Look up the bug tracker for your specific class to know in advance what won't work. To give an example, my troll priest would not have Shadowguard proc Blackout, which really depressed me for pvp concerns. It's best to know what's broken (and won't ever be fixed) in advance of leveling something.
Instance scripting isn't perfect. There's numerous anomalies or things flat out bugged in terms of scripting flow and mob placement. If you're cool with that, instances can still be completed. I've just seen Trinity Core / Mangos scripting that's better.
Overall, Valkyrie WoW (Russian infested clusterfuck - I don't hate the dudes, but man they are sooo anti social in general) and Rebirth (very low player population) both have far better attention paid to character abilities / instance scripting. Servers are just cleaner and better run / maintained over ED by a mile. Not that I have any interest. P99 owns.
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