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What is a good middle population shard?

Dol'Gorath

Grand Inquisitor
Stratics Veteran
Stratics Legend
I returned and started on Atlantic cause that has always been my main shard going back to when I originally began. However I am finding the crowding, especially with this current event to be borderline unplayable. Everything is constantly camped and greedy guilds muscle you out of spawn locations by killing stuff you are trying to tame [Nightmare Event]
I was thinking of transferring to a different shard but have no idea what it looks like outside Atlantic these days, especially given how low activity the forums have. I see Catskills and Chesapeake have some decent forum activity but I don't know if that is enough to get a good reading.
So I am am looking for suggestions to see where there are people to play with while not being super overcrowded but at the same time not being a total ghost town. I looked into Origin out of curiosity and wow, running around all over the shard I saw maybe 2-3 people at any given time lol...
 

Pawain

I Hate Skilling
Governor
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Stratics Legend
UNLEASHED
Go to each shard. Do vendor search. Exclude gargoyle items. You will see how large of a market can be created by the population of the shard.

GL and LS could be middle. Realize Middle means there are a group of players 5 to 10 that might be on that shard in a specific time frame. The shard will have more players on but they are doing other things.

Right now you can visit each shard and see how friendly the regular players are by them making gates to the boss.
 

Lord Ron Fellows

Certifiable
Governor
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VS is not representative of player base. I'd suggest seeking out shard discords or guild discords if you still want to be a part of a community. There are lots of trammel based guilds on all of the north American "dead" shards. You can also attend monthly governor meetings were said guilds usually have representatives in attendance.
 

Anon McDougle

Grand Poobah
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Baja home
Cheesy decent sized with a small but mouthy pvp crowd
Cats has gone down a bit but still good
Pac declined
Origin small and clicky
 

OREOGL

Grand Inquisitor
Professional
Stratics Veteran
Stratics Legend
UNLEASHED
Campaign Patron
I play across a lot of shards but for average play Great Lakes and Chessy have been my go to. LS and Sonoma are okay too.

I have chars on lake Austin and origin but outside of the event are generally lower population.
 

Dol'Gorath

Grand Inquisitor
Stratics Veteran
Stratics Legend
Go to each shard. Do vendor search. Exclude gargoyle items. You will see how large of a market can be created by the population of the shard.

GL and LS could be middle. Realize Middle means there are a group of players 5 to 10 that might be on that shard in a specific time frame. The shard will have more players on but they are doing other things.

Right now you can visit each shard and see how friendly the regular players are by them making gates to the boss.
Thanks for the info. I am going to do a tour of each of the US shards on my days off, mainly the ones mentioned here and have a look around. An active market is for sure a good thing. Community is another.
 

Discord

Journeyman
Stratics Veteran
Go to each shard. Do vendor search. Exclude gargoyle items. You will see how large of a market can be created by the population of the shard.

GL and LS could be middle. Realize Middle means there are a group of players 5 to 10 that might be on that shard in a specific time frame. The shard will have more players on but they are doing other things.

Right now you can visit each shard and see how friendly the regular players are by them making gates to the boss.
Agreed, for the same reason I started using my characters on GL again and was surprised by the number of people I saw t-hunting, doing events or even posted up at the bank.
 

Olaf Honeybeard

Adventurer
'Ello friends,

*Sends over frosty mugs of Dwarven ale & full racks of spicy drake ribs for everyone to enjoy*

Welcome to Baja! =)

Sincerely,

Olaf Honeybeard [INN]
Inn Keeper, The Red Dragon Inn
Baja, Tokuno Isles 35o 52'N, 70o 52'W
 
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