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I don’t think the server consolidation is a drastic move really. The ones they are consolidating are *literally* dead. I logged into my old vanilla toon on Rattlegore to see what the status was before taking the free transfer, and I was (not joking) the ONLY horde player online. It will have little to no impact on the player base, it’s more just consolidating wasted server resources.

You forgot to mention that Firemaw Horde abused a loophole where you didn't incur a transfer cooldown when using a free character transfer, so they hopped over to Razorgore, and then again to Gehennas, all for free.

It’s honestly kind of mind blowing the Grob Gang has maintained 50/50 despite every other server being completely dominated by one faction.

Just by looking at the thumbnail, I already do not agree. I’ve been on Grobbulus, the only true 50-50, since day 1 and I PREFER AND LOVE it like this.

We holding it out on Grobbulus!

I wish Grobbulus would be locked. We have so many toxic people flooding in and it killed the RP scene... I want it to come back, but that's not going to happen if the server stays open to transfers and character creation

Videos like this just make me realize how much of a miracle that Grobbulus is. I think it should have deserved a mention at least

There should be separate "forced balance" servers, where balance would be maintained through longer queues for major faction

I wonder if this "faction minority exodus" will happen to Grobbulus? It's a PvP RP realm US West with 51.5% horde, best balanced I've seen. I feel lucky to play there

You missed an important point about the Horde migration from Firemaw to Gehennas. There was no direct free migration to Gehennas from Firemaw, but there was a loophole that some found out. You could migrate all you characters for free to Razogore and from then you could again migrate all you characters for free to Gehennas. The loophole was the thing that made most of horde go from Firemaw to Gehennas. The fact that is was free but only open until blizz found out made EVERYEONE wanted to use it before it was too late. And that was the reason most of the horde migrated in only 24 hours.

u forgot to mention that it was a mistake/loophole made by blizzard that allowed players to transfer from firemaw to razorgore to gehennas for free.. People really went out of their way to join the horde mega server

One thing that would help a little bit is to connect all the 3 AH (Horde, Alliance and goblin), at least if you are on the smaller faction you can still gets the mats you need.

They always should've had a maximum ratio difference of 45:55 with new servers, each account representing one individual in the population regardless of how many toons on the server (all have to be same faction). This ratio can be extended to at most 40:60 but your account needs an invite from a player on the server. Each player gets one account invite, but will not work past 60%.

One of the big things that also killed big open world pvp was that once you got 2 raids against each, the lag just became unbearable where you would have 2-3+ seconds of delay and just couldn't play properly whatsoever. I _believe_ they still have this same problem on retail as well. On private servers you could have hundreds of players in an area fighting, aoeing, etc and there was no noticeable lag, but the official Blizzard large company servers lag out to all hell with just a fraction of that.

Options: 1. offer people 2 months game time for switching to lesser populated faction 2. offer one way faction swaps 3. offer a free pet or a free title, unique only to switchers 4. offer some sort of cool cosmetic for switchers 5. lock new characters getting made past a 60/40 split on any server theres loads of things they could do if they had any will at all.

The faction balance problem is actually pretty easy to fix, and I'm surprised Blizzard has never thought of it. Perhaps they have and can't code it. The solution? Dynamic matching. 1. Make all servers single faction. This happens over time dynamically by player migration but just make it official. Name severs by faction, ex. Thrall would be horde only. 2. Each week match the alliance and horde servers by size. Biggest alliance and biggest horde server are linked, next biggest together, etc. The next week this is updated if populations vary changing a servers rank. 3. Do the same for layers. If people of one faction flee a layer to avoid the other faction the layer will dynamically re associate it such that faction representation in a given layer is as balanced as possible. There should be a delay but not too long on layers being reassociated. The one problem this can't fix is if people flee a faction completely. Horde is already 60% of the PVP population and as retail showed, people don't want balanced PVP and over time I could see alliance PVP completely dying.

I hope grobbulus stays as it is It feels like the last balanced server left

Create official "Balanced Faction" servers and you must agree to the terms that Blizzard has control to lock and reopen character creations and transfers at will to keep it balanced. Folks that want a balanced server to play on should have no qualms with agreeing to that if it keeps their server factions within 5% of each other.

The Firemaw Exodus was a real wake-up call concerning the player community. So many people just blindly following the GDKP Mafia Guilds and Botters, destroying the last balanced server and moving to a mono-faction realm. Shows that the vast majority of „pvp players“ don’t really care about the game itself (or the fun in it for that matter). They have optimized the game and care more about being able to join a gdkp run at 10am for any raid rather than having a good community or immersive world. Very sad testament... pathetic sheep ofc, but still sad

Love the new cooking skills in your general chat! Congrats. Keep up the good work. I keep watching even though I quit in TBC :D

I recently transferred to grobbulous, it’s 50 50 and I love it, I haven’t had this much fun since classic release

You sort of need to salute Grobbulus players for maintaining the almost only real PvP server in Classic WoW, certainly the most balanced one.

This is the first KZfaq video that I've ever seen where the sponsor's message got interrupted by a KZfaq commercial. "We interrupt this commercial with another commercial."

There's a critical piece of information you missed. On July 10th players of Firemaw discovered a glitch. They managed to transfer their characters to Razorgore, and then receive an additional free transfer to Gehennas. Horde players took the opportunity. Within one week they sent the 63-37% balance server to 93-7%. Rougly 8k horde players dropped within 2 days, as seen on ironforge pro. All thanks to an exploit, and a major f.up on Blizzard's end.

I'm convinced that the issue is that people are intrigued by the idea of world PvP, but they don't actually want to engage with the content.

I was on bigglesworth as it slowly died. Most of us were going to transfer to whitemane, but then free transfers opened, and one option was grobbulus. Honestly we never would have considered it but a bunch of horde and alliance guild leaders from grob were working together and reaching out to get people not just to xfer to grob, but to keep the server balanced. I dont know how all of this was organized but i bet it would make for a great video. “How grob stays balanced”. Im proud to be a part of this server. Maybe one day i’ll even see barnybee on his bug mount somewhere 😂

Interesting stuff. Thanks for the vids!

The solution was so easy, so self-evident, laying before their eyes for years all along. People were calling for this in/after the disastrous start of classic p2. After the server locks when there were hour-long qeues already. After the balance started to tip over. After the AQ War Effort was over. After removing layers, which, while problematic on their own, at least provided members of the weaker faction a chance to escape their gankers. After server communities (which did exist, on some servers more, on some less) started to disperse: Locking servers for ONE faction. And preferably before queues kicked in. An easy, absolutely no-brainer solution. All their "issues" they've raised before (keeping your name, technology, server identity, etc. etc.) would've been cowered by this. Instead, in their sheer hubris, allowed for the loophole which sealed the fate of Firemaw. How the hell could they allow free transfer to a dead server for free - from which you could transfer to ANY server for free. But if you thought that's all - well, it's happening AGAIN. Couple that with player behaviour - and at this point, unless you play on classic era or one of the private servers, faction balance is dead for good.

Myself, my husband, his sister, plus my brother and sister were all playing together on a pve server. We however decided to move to a new server due to balance concerns it was about 40% horde and 60% alliance. The first day the server was available we switched over, fingers crossed after joining the discord for the server, we thought that it would at least be balanced but that it looked like it would be a horde dominant server. The first few days the server grew with horde players and some alliance, but slowly it began to scew to alliance again. After about 3 weeks it was predominantly alliance and even worse than before, the server never grew beyond maybe 2 or 3k and it was at least 80% alliance. We went from bad to worse and we couldnt move our toons back. We would have had to reroll at hte time. They ended up all quitting and never came back. I myself rerolled and played a bit alone but ended up quitting too (during classic vanilla)

KEEP GROBBULUS EVEN!

I joined Gehennas-EU Alliance side when I got back in WoW and couldn't find a balanced server, and tbh, I like the vibe of the community. Sure it could be less dead, but we get to know the people who hang around, especially with a nice guild.

On Whitemane NA, we were balanced for a long time, but then eventually went 99% horde. The dormant alliance population is maybe coming back now, for the wotlk balance that favors humans. Since the bonus XP started, there's a noticeable amount of alliance. Especially geared 60s leveling 60-70.

I always thought it would be worth trying Alliance-only and Horde-only servers, with Blizzard pairing them up on their end. Basically, the highest pop horde server would be paired/merged with the highest pop alliance server, second highest with second highest, etc. This way, they could reevaluate every month or couple of weeks and if there are massive population changes, just rearrange and re-pair servers. This way they could move large populations around without having to do server transfers and keep individual servers basically intact.

Grobb has nearly 20k players and it's almost exactly 50/50 Horde Ally ratio. Blizz doesn't have to do anything. If you want world pvp on a large realm, play on Grobb, if you dont, play on Benny or Faerlina. There's something for both types of players. It's not an issue. I'm on Grobb and it's amazing. The world is so alive and most zones, both Outlands and Azeroth alike, are a warzone. If I didnt care about that, I'd be on Benny or Faerlina.

Awesome video. Great Wall content. The history is really interesting

I'm really glad I played on Zandalar Tribe. Even though it died in TBC, in Classic it often felt like the only balanced EU pvp server, and while everyone was complaning in phase two, we were having ton of fun fighting over who gets to control which zone.

Honestly a handful of massive servers would probably be the best solution. Things that might "help" is faction specific queues on servers. This kinda worked in private servers, but only kinda.

What i just thought of: Sharding, crossrealm activities and signup systems proved to work very well in the past. What if we combine this? Give players the option to join ‘the pvp realm’, which is a crossrealm layer instance of the outside world, accessible by players on any server. This will finally achieve the BALANCED open world pvp that players desire. Now ‘the pvp’ layer doesn’t have that ring to it, so we’ll call it ‘The Brave World’ for now. All players of all realms can join The Brave World (pvp layer) by turning their ‘brave adventurer’ option on. The brave world is a pvp crossrealm layer that you can only access by zoning in to it, like a battleground. Though it will feel more like joining ‘the pvp layer’ because you keep your current spot and it will feel like transitioning into another layer on the same realm, which we already experienced before. Just like a battleground fills its ‘instances’ evenly, this brave world (pvp layer) will be filled by an evenly distribution of horde and alliance players by a sign-up system. Think about alliance from firemaw and horde from gehennas, and many players from all realms signing up for this. With too much of your faction on it compared to the other one, you would be placed in a queue. For example it could be a margin of 50-100 player difference by faction. This pvp realm would still be able to fill up to thousands (say 5k) of players on each side, as long as the two factions equally fill it up. If one pvp layer really becomes overpopulated, then we make 2 pvp layers. ‘Why join a crossrealm pvp layer instead of safely exploring the world on the layers of my alliance- or horde only realm?’ You might ask. Well, why did we create characters on pvp realms in the first place? You were willing to face some foes while you were walking outside. How will this pvp layer be playable and not filled up with ganking rogues only? How will i still be able to quest on it? Will this bring big open world pvp fights back? - Players could be given a buff as a small incentive to join the brave world. It rewards their bravery and motivates them to treat it both as a real leveling and exploration world but also an opportunity to form big faction fights. An example of this buff would be ‘Brave adventurer: + 20% reputation and xp gained and +20% honor gained while in a raid group’. (The auctionhouse and mailbox would still be linked towards your own realm. You will not be able to trade items with players from other realms And you would zone out of this crossrealm layer and into a layer of your own realm if you toggle of ‘brave adventurer’.)

What I appreciate the most is that you used actual footage of Firemaw Orgrimar as I recognized some of the players there. Actually bis wow classic content creator

honestly i wish blizz would just lock character creation on servers when needed more often

The problem is giving people access to transfers at all, as soon as they feel their side is lacking just a little bit they take the easy way out and make the problem even worse. Just get rid of transfers and the 40/60 ratio will be preserved, the lacking side wont quit so easily when all their character progress is on the line.

This whole classic WoW thing has been very sad. I was so ready for a nostalgic experience, but instead, we saw both Blizzard, and ourselves as mass groups of people, botch one thing after another. The snowballing of small advantages for one faction on almost every server was so sad to see, and I'm just glad I stopped playing it before it got too insane.

I was a horde at firemaw, just started up two weeks ago. Didn't know that horde had left the server. Got chased out by continuously getting ganked, so now I am at Gehennas where I belong apperntly.

Grobb mob checking in

Cross faction is the best thing they've implemented in a long time, preventing gameplay improvements to protect lore elements that not even the writers of the story care to protect is just silly, if there was any form of consistency in the history of wow that justified maintaining this class-faction lock I would understand, but so far alliance and horde have teamed up more times than they have fought, the next step is to simply have a quest chain that allows one to fully change factions and enable faction choice for any race upon character creation.

There a way to make single faction servers. then do like seasons (2-3 months or something) where your faction server is paired with a similar sized server group from the other faction. set it up so it attempts to keep server groups paired until the discrepancy becomes to large.

I know nothing of the logistics behind implementing this idea here, but what about creating connections between 3 servers? With the example of War Mode, the idea is that you have a non-PVP server dominated by each faction and a PVP server that tries to self-balance players coming from and going to those servers.

i just don't understand why they didn't just make it so it's not possible to go over a 40/60 balance. If there's 60% alliance then no more alliance characters can be created or transfered until the balance is closer to 50/50. Sorted.... -.-

Please just don’t ruin Grobb man. Idk why so many players don’t care about faction balance but leave that ideology on other servers

No speak of Grobb Mobb ? come on now , RPPVP is still a pvp server.

I played on Whitemane since the beginning of classic where it had always maintained comfortable faction balance. Perhaps 5 points advantage horde 10 at worst. This changed with TBC, however. When all the smaller servers began to be abandoned, all the horde players chose Whitemane as their destination. That 50/50 balance quickly became 60/40 and then 70/30 and by the time our guild decided to bail to Benediction, it was 80/20. Getting into SSC was a nightmare and would take most classes 3-4 death runs. We knew Caverns of Times would be a nightmare and Sunwell even worse.

There's an issue in the video, transfers to Firemaw have still not been opened. Only character creation has been enabled.

some random ideas...1) release the actual server population/faction % numbers. then let the players decide themselves where to roll on. 2) also maybe allow an FREE to anywhere/faction transfer 1 time per toon. or 3) make everyone factionless by default, then you can choose which faction to join. can reset every X months.

We have no one to blame but ourselves for the downfall of warcraft

Faction population caps per server are the only solution.

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Having a handful of megaservers available with an optional cross-server war mode is the end game.

Gotta admit, I'm laughing my ass off at all the arrogant douchebag wanting to be on PvP servers, and then watch them flee with their tails behind the hindlegs to PvE/Horde dominated servers.

Simple solution: Faction pairing. Take a faction minority and crossrealm it with a server where that faction is the majority. Example: Atiesh alliance (81.9%) gets pooled with Golemagg alliance (8%). The Atiesh peeps get Horde to contend with, and the Golemagg peeps aren't so lonely anymore. No need for transfers, no need for radical fire-in-all-directions crossrealming.

As someone who has spend my entire wow classic career on windseeker, I am happy to see it with a good balance and a small but healthy population :)

Grob rise up

I am routinely reminded that i am one of the few people that loved the open world pvp mess that was in phase 2 onwards and even in phase 1 of classic vanilla wow. I loved the hostility of it all, it made stepping outside a city or town truly dangerous. I know you would die a lot but the few times you were able to evade and escape your doom made up for every single failure.

I was on fireman playing between that period of mass exodus, it went from a flying chat with mostly boosts but some stuff going on, to completely dead within a couple weeks, I had to eventually move and so I did, but they had already locked gehennas by the time I did. I originally moved to firemaw during tbc specifically for the faction balance, I dont understand why players want a completely one faction dominated server but oh well

Yo lets go Grobb! I was in Bigglesworth during p1&p2 and took a break, but then joined Grobb a couple weeks before Sunwell and I'd say it's the best PvP server out there. Amazing Faction Balance, spicy memes and fun times all around. I can't wait to see how the server evolves with prepatch, as even with the 50% xp boost, lower level content has been advertised in chats.

"Players seem to just want big servers with one faction" This is wrong and Firemaw has proven it. The server stood balanced and growing until the lock. The only reason it died is because bots could no longer supply mat demand because they couldn't create new characters. Players don't want one faction, they want cheap prices on items, which blizzard is not able to supply because they limit the amount of players till the lower populated faction leaves.

The more important question: Does faction balance actually matter? It seems to most players, the answer is no. The bigger server problem is the mass migration away from small servers onto mega servers leaving people forced to transfer or take MM out of there ORPG.

hmm interesting, i think u may be onto something where having factions on a single server might be the issue overall. So maybe faction specific servers with cross realm pvp? you would have to sacrifice wpvp tho (or maybe use sharding for zone faction balance?) but i think it might be worth it. Damn its a tough 1 really

I have no idea what several to play on, im new to wow do I need to play on a server that have more population fir the faction I wanna be apart of?

i feel like the people that want a balanced server is a loud minority and/or sweaty rogues. World pvp sucks and always has sucked. Getting ganked while questing is nothing but an annoyance. It's for people that can't arena and want to feel good at the game by either ganking lowbies or only picking fights if they have an extreme advantage. If balanced servers were as popular as some people think then there would be more. But the majority has shown that they dont want balanced servers by choosing to swap to a favorable server for their faction.

Horde left firemaw because it was free to transfer from firemaw to a dead server, and then free to transfer off the dead server to gehennas. blizzard screwed up

12:53 they are ready to do this since phase 6 of classic, if you remember, then suddenly players nick names in chat could be expanded with - "server". And you could text everyone freely, even inviting to the group. Back then i had a pal that i invited, he was on other server, and we met at stockades, we could share loot and everything. Back then i thought it would be new era of raid boosting, with strong static taking whoever they want as long it's same faction. Well, it was removed after, dunno how fast

Faction-based login queue. Only characters/accounts are able to log in fro mthe character selection screen, when the balance etween factions is within the 10% (45 : 55) difference. And when 1 faction gets overpop, a queue pops up untill some people fro mthe other faction logs in. This will ensure people will want to find a balanced realm or they cannot play.

In my opinion, what really killed classic servers and SoM was the fact that there was a 5000 server capacity + up to 10 layers. It should be 7-10k population capacity and 0 layers. That is one of the main reasons why private servers was so successfull.

Grobbulus is a 50/50 pvp server bro... It's maintained it since classic's launch. RPPVP is the trick. All these KZfaqrs discount data staring them in the face. Emerald Dream on retail is the same way. It doesn't fit their narrative so it gets ignored.

I guess they could do a check on the player base on server if the balance if off by X% then auto block the higher faction to create new account there. Im not sure but if i remember right they did something like this in ArcheAge back then to prevent having servers where 1 faction dominate and 0 other faction exist. But ye in that game u had 3 faction instead of 2, where the 3rd faction was the pirate faction (mixed faction and usually hardcore PVP players went to pirates) also pirate side was the smallest compare to the other 2, where they come from.

I know many people have pointed out that the free transfer exploit via Razorgore was a huge reason why the mass exodus was able to happen, however I've not seen anyone mention another key part of the exodus - Real Money Trading. Although there is the obvious "we don't want to be a minority faction" drive to the exodus, the actual trigger is a slight bit more complicated. After Blizzard had stopped character creation and server transfers to Firemaw, queues that up to that point had been 13k+ at peak disappeared VERY quickly, but ironforge pro was reporting the same number of players. What ironforge does not report is bots, and Firemaw was absolutely filled with them. With the closing of the server, banned accounts could no longer create new account to make more bots and more importantly they couldn't take advantage of the free transfer from dead servers where they would farm materials unchallenged and then move them to Firemaw. This is why Firemaw saw huge inflation with Haste Potions go from 7g a pop to a whopping 25g at it's height. This combined with the announcement of wrath and summer dried up big GDKP spenders, there are a huge amount of guilds and organisations that ran GDKPs on Firemaw and suddenly saw a drought of income as well as a huge inflation. This was by no means a horde only problem, but when these GDKP communities decided to root up and all move to Gehennas a domino effect occurred where no one wanted to be left as a minority faction. So in the end, all though Blizzard's "decision" did cause the issue, their reluctance to fight RMT also had an important role to play in the events that occurred.

its not hard to achieve. They literally just have to stop letting people make characters on a side that is unbalanced.

I was leveling up a paladin on Faerlina when phase 2 dropped and literally overnight the game became unplayable to me. 30-45min corpse runs to get to BRD was killing any drive I had to play that character. It was honestly a really painful experience that made me transfer to PvE server and I never looked back. I blame toxic player behavior on why faction balance can't be achieved.

Make a migration preorder event. Blizz announces, say, a couple of weeks ahead that there will be a free transfer window. You can put yourself on a list or remove yourself at any time. The pretransfer numbers are public, so you can see the whole picture without committing first. Maybe even set a deadline after which you can't remove yourself and the transfer is automatic.

I don't understand the point of War mode when we were already able to toggle pvp mode on regular non pvp servers.

grobbulus is the last good classic server, but it can't stand forever, rip

I just don't understand this at all. Everything about Classic WoW is based on the community. That thing that was destroyed by Blizzard with LFG/LFR/ and mega servers. This same community that wanted to play a version of WoW without all of those things, seem to be hell bent on turning Classic in to Retail. They bitched about not having LFG in Wrath and got Blizzard to cave on it in under a week. They are doing everything that they can do to get on some mega server. They have done everything in their power to buy the leveling experience through boosting to the point that Blizzard finally had to kill boosting. If you don't like Classic WoW the way it is, why play it? Why are people who (allegedly) don't like retail, trying so hard to turn Classic WoW into retail? That whole "You think you do, but you don't." quote that J Allen got flamed to death for.....all the guys who are involved in these activities....you're proving him right.

I came back specifically for the animosity. If we don’t have that, I’m gone.

My server was close to 50/50 through all of classic. After character boosts became a thing in tbc prepatch, players massively swapped to horde for the better racials and access to BE and paladins now being available. Soon after the alliance exodused to the mega server and my guild couldn’t even fill out our raid roster, forcing us to leave as well. I can’t help but feel like more people would’ve stayed on alliance if they didn’t have access to boosting a level 58 horde toon. Took away the leveling inconvenience.

I wonder if they can faction cap each server to help balance it out?

My idea would be for Blizzard to drop server caps for how many people can be online on a server at any given time before server queues appear, and then split that number evenly across horde and alliance. Purely an example (don’t take the numbers too seriously), say you made it 2k horde and 2k alliance can be online at once then you’d see huge queues for some servers and for some factions within different servers, making that server unplayable. Then you also open all servers up to free transfers and give the population roughly 1-2 months deadline until the server caps are reduced so they can sort themselves out and find new homes. A lot would find new homes in that 1-2 month period and then you’d get people who hang around to see what happens. If they don’t move by the time the caps are reduced then they will have queues and I bet you’d see the population spread itself out pretty quickly because they have no choice. If players are capable of creating 99:1 servers then they are certainly capable of creating 50:50 servers. It really just comes down to whether players want the experience of having people to group up with easily on their faction or do they want an opposite faction to war with. The obvious downside to this is that it will kill server identity and force friends to potentially part. But we’ve already seen that when it comes down to it those things don’t really matter that much to the player base or they wouldn’t be so willing to jump ship like they have for classic’s entire history.

This happened to our guild, quite frustrating, went on a 5 day holiday left it was near 50:50 by the time we got back most of the guild had transferred and we had little choice but to follow. Seems like a weird pack mentality

At this point you would think the issue would be there just being way too many servers to choose from. People decide where to go usually based on where their friends are and new players tend to just randomly pick one to a point. I think the consolidation of servers coming up is a step in the right direction. Fewer servers would hopefully in theory amass the populations where it's lacking.

Quick note: The AH on retail is being opened up to be for your whole region instead of just your server in the next Shadowlands update (before Dragonflight), so if that's well received in retail that could be an option for classic too to make playing on low pop servers not feel so painful

What happens when SOM characters xfers open up? Will they only be able to move to the servers that aren't locked?

Its so sad to see my formal server getting turned off. I played on herod alliance for all of classic and even tho it was always a 2-3 advantage to horde the alliance population was still big enough to have a great community. When TBC came out all the big guilds moved to other servers and herod went full horde and I took the free transfer away to a much bigger server and it just doesn't feel the same. if u go on that server now as alliance u get less then 10 players on at noon.

So, as someone who wants to start (again) with wotlk, what would you recommend? - I am thinking fresh server since I don't have any meaningful toons on tbc anyway. Is that a no-brainer or should I reconsider? - I really like lively pvp scene, especially on low levels so pvp sounds logical, however I like immersion as well and in my classic experience pvp servers are the worst offender in this (people just consuming the game instead of 'living' in it). What's the difference between pve and pvp in reality and is rp competetive enough? - I am limited to english speaking eu servers.

There was a game...not a big one but also focused about two factions being at war. They allowed one faction to outnumber the other faction on the server by 15 players (as in if there were 100 players on faction A there could be only 115 players on faction B). I wonder how such an idea would work for WoW.

WoW should have a world system like Runescape, where you can hop servers at any given time. The max amount of players on one server at a time in Runescape is 2000, so usually you would try to find a low populated server to farm popular mob spots and stuff like that, and when you want to do social activites you go to the more populated servers.

This is where a lesson from Dark Age of Camelot would help. Single faction PvE areas. For PvP you would have battlegrounds and also a large scale open PvP area. I'd suggest an Alliance only server and a Horde only server. pair servers up and link BG's. Have a new linked zone that you can jump into (Winter's Grasp or AV for example except larger) that had PvP objectives and let people go at it. Win win for everyone.

Grobbulus is basically even in a pvp setting no hype for my server being even for so long

Blizzard should have done their jobs and kept realm balance under control at the start of the game. Too late now and they don't care lol.

Benediction was so awesome throughout classic. 50/50 population throughout all phases. Now it’s so overpopulated that you can’t even read the chat. It’s just endless GDKP and boost spamming.

Region wide or battlegroup warmode where they disable flying.