Stormforge Netherwing Private Server - My Thoughts So Far

So, after playing a bit on Stormforge's Netherwing server it's time to give you guys my thoughts so far. Is it worth playing? Let's find out!

[Molagmal]

Going to try to be diplomatic here, I feel that culturally it's also difficult to play with some (not all!) Chinese players. Their goals are a little bit more individualistic generally.

[sewertails]

Well here i am to give my opinion about the server. Ive played back in Karazhan since release (second TBC server from Atlantiss) and also here in netherwing2. The raiding experience if u have a guild to raid with is very pleasant because of the really well scripting that Atlantiss and Tauri gives, the world and quest scripting is really good too in both factions so your dont have to worry about it at all for the questing and stuff.
Now, about the population.... It still has peak 5-6k that is pretty damn good, back in karazhan when T6 was released if u had 1, 5k online it would be a miracle but lets keep going about nw2. There is A LOT of chinese guilds in the server and coming with them, a lot of botting so thats a bit bad but the GMs are pretty active banning them, there is a really good work from them there. And for the pvp time, dammmmn its good, queue arent long, the arena competition is really active and the premades are always there to join.
So its time to talk about the non-raid pve, its still active as a lot of ppl is gearing alts and stuff even with the Endless 3 release so u have a lot of normals to join and heroic farm too.
Imo this server is still worth to play ofc, more if u are willing to raid or do pugs, a lot of guilds are constantly recruiting players to do his work!!!

[Thanaroa]

I gotta say its unfortunate that most of the private servers out now you have to hear "i recommend this server if you can get past: (list of frustrating problems that are pretty hard to tolerate).

[emberhusk]

The first Netherwing server by Atlantiss team was probably the best scripted TBC server ever. I honestly didn't see any improvements from the Tauri collab at all.
As for the population, I quit back when it had around 4-6k online (about 3 months after launch). I would say up to 70% of those were either chinese or bots because it was hard to even get heroic groups going during peak hours. The server itself is fine but I wouldnt recommend wasting time on it.

[fwtrhte]

I played netherwing as a Shaman up till level 60. It took me a month as I'm in the same situation as you. Outland become to crazy for me, Constant ganking.

I stopped and started playing Chromiecraft. I much prefer it. 3.3.5 client but TBC content. Kara is released in a couple of weeks. Very helpful community. 500-600 max online but still queues for normals and HC's. Try out Chromiecraft if you want a Wotlk client with TBC expansion

[wdd]

if ur playing casually you can get pretty much full gear from bgs in one BG weekend, i had wsg weekend and spammed it and got nearly fully geared from just that

[fritzschnitzmueller]

Noice didnt even know this server existed Super chill video man, love the vibe

[wdd]

Yeah Atlantiss was great, and mistblade too, netherwing as a server is okay, but the community is what ruins it imo. i had no intention on doing any PVE raiding in TBC and got my mage full geared off bgs and was just going to spam BGs, because that can be fun, and it was and can be for a while, but it's upsetting too because there is a MASS amount of Chinese players/bots/afks and mixes of the sort, which leads to never having competitive games either you mop the floor with enemy team or you get stomped because half your team is afk botting, needless to say i quit playing there once it got old. The community that is left on Mistblade sucks too, a bunch of trashy hispanics that ninja loot from you, i went back to playing and did some normal raids and was ninja looted from by hispanic raid leaders twice in a row and just gave up, all my guys are pretty much full gear minus a few items, not worth dealing with people like that to bother getting further geared, the community and the servers can just die. there used to be a lot of cool people on Mistblade, i had cool raiding guilds on ALliance and HOrde that had some really cool people on it and it was really fun, unfortunately none of those people still play there anymore

[Dudemanguy_]

Been playing here since launch. They are okay about banning bots but they are often up for 1-2 weeks before being banned. I don't see bots doing dungeon farms, those seem monitored its all open world and largely up to the players to actually report them. Seen some in bgs and a few people we're toggling the bot, playing sometimes. There are a lot of chinese players but I think the server is better with them for fast bg/arena queue's all times of the day. Does suck not being able to communicate with a third of the server though. Consumes and materials are cheap.
Its good if your looking for a challenge from raiding. x2-x3 boss HP/dmg from classic values. Prenerf content requires a lot of min maxing (raid comp, professions. bloodlust swaps - no sated like classic) There's lots of kara groups and pugs but it can be hard getting T5 raiding going on here with the increased difficulty.
There are a ton of casuals just doing quests, dungeons. playing the game at their own pace. If you want to casually get some prebis and run some Kara its a good place to do that. . EU pop is strong, NA isn't but seems to be slowly growing. Theres some RU guilds, Some Latin/South Americans. Its really just a global server and not everyone can communicate with each other.
T6 just released its fun good tuning, difficult enough its satisfying but not so hard its almost impossible like netherwing 1. Cat dps works. tbc arena sucks, you can buy gold on the shop but GDKP isnt a thing here.

[XPISTOS-ANESTH]

Private servers wise imo only 2 servers are active turtle wow vanilla and warmane wotlk and talking for warmane planning really soon to start a project from fresh vanilla until wotlk.

[jasonmuse]

I have enjoyed this server, and agree with your takes.
If any complaint, I feel you may have downplayed the bots a bit. You have to fight bots for any farming spot. It honestly seems like they allow them just to boost numbers.

[MhWow]

Its a Pvp server which counts lots of people out!

[nashnya]

Congratulations bruh on becoming a daddy. Je bent Nederlands, waarom lul ik Engels.

Goed gedaan bink, maak ons trots!

[sanhexx]

While leveling to 70, at least 50% of people I encountered were multiboxers, and other characters in the same gear behaving like bots and afk running into walls, presumebly also multiboxers. Anyway, it felt soulless and lonely, reminded me of retail "Classic".

[Jiddu]

Congratulations!!! Take good care. Enjoy fatherhood. The very best of luck and all goodness!
Started also casually on Netherwing :D:D

[jacechan]

for me tho it seem to be really hard to find raiding guild ( late EU 8-9PM Server time start raiding), and guilds seem to not able to fill their raid for ssc as well. (beside the top 20 ish guilds)

[Effigyy]

I've played NW1, Karazhan and NW2 and while the population on NW2 is easily the biggest, it has largely failed to recapture the 'magic' that the earlier releases had, flawed as they may have been in other ways. The big chinese population is very insulated and almost like a second playerbase separate from the english-speaking community and I'd estimate they account for at least half the server's active population, which has brought some new problems to surface that were less noticeable on earlier servers. I still think it's the best place to play TBC but they've dropped the ball a bit compared to earlier quality

[Finis.Terrae]

Fake population.

10 k people online, only 700 people on world chat (both sides combined)

I somehow have hard time believing that 9300 people didn't join chat, especially when that chat is the only way to find people to group up with.

[DruNature]

aye! my baby is 7 months ols and im lvel 45! we should play sometime! my shaman is named Drunature

WAIT a second Ive seen your tauren THunderhoof!! I briefly made a tauren shaman alt and I saw you at level 4 haha! man I remember thinking holy shit I cant believe he got the name Thunderhoof, but he isn't a shaman! I had been thinking of names that started with thunder but didnt try any thinking they were taken!!
Holy crap small world!

[keso]

How is the ratio between english and chinese&russian players? And how is the server stability when reaching those 10000 people marks? Been playing on turtle and can say that its hard to play during china peak hours and the server lag can get a bit dangerous