Re: Newbie question

BulkDaddy wrote:
My wife and myself are going to start WOW. We are both over 40 and might be classified as not having the faster reflexes/reactions when playing, esp my wife, and so want to get started in a way that is enjoyable.

When looking at realms, the normal role-playing (non-PVP) looks like a good choice for us.
Question, there are so many active realms (servers yes?) out there how do we find one that would be a good choice for us?
What does 'population' indicate on the realm status page
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/realmstatus/

This was my method:

1. Go to http://www.warcraftrealms.com/realmstats.php
2. Sort by time zone (this was important to me, maybe not to you)
3. Look at servers in your time zone that are the proper type (PvE, PvP, etc.). I chose PvE because I wanted to play the game itself and not be bothered with getting attacked all the time.
4. Then I looked at a combination of the server start date and population. I didn't want one that was too new (or too old), and I also wanted a nice balance of both Alliance and Horde.

"Population" on the WoW website means there are either not many (low) up to very many (high) people on the server, but I often find that the description (low, medium, high, full) isn't really that accurate.
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