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WoW SoD: Server populations of WoW Classic Season of Discovery

Is there room for me and my entire guild?

Choosing a realm to play World of Warcraft on used to be a simple process. Not only are there countless realm options now, but there’s also a new tier, Seasonal, that coincides with the Season of Discovery.

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Don’t mistake regular WoW Classic realms for SoD realms when you log into the game; SoD is a seasonal game mode, and its servers are also seasonal. If you don’t have a friend waiting for you in a specific realm, your best bet is to choose an SoD server based on your location and the current server population.

You’ll find more players to team up with in a busy realm, and finding farming opportunities shouldn’t be a problem if you know how to change layers.

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WoW Classic server populations for Season of Discovery servers

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Real-time footage from a low-pop server. It can get lonely out there, folks. Screenshot by Dot Esports

The website IronForge.pro maintains trackers of Season of Discovery server active character populations based on raids uploaded to the site Warcraft Logs. While this doesn’t necessarily give a 100 percent accurate figure for each server, it does give us an idea of which servers are more populated.

There are a total of 14 seasonal servers between Europe and the U.S., which are the only regions tracked on IronForge. There are eight in the U.S., with two specifically set aside for players in Australia, while there are eight in EU, with two set aside for Russia.

Here are the current active character populations for each SoD server as of February 2024, according to IronForge:

Server NameServer TypeAlliance PopulationHorde PopulationTotal Population
Crusader Strike USPvP RP13,01512,16025,175
Living Flame USPvP11,0519,20320,254
Lone Wolf USPvP10,5099,96120,470
Wild Growth USPvE12,3055,67717,982
Shadowstrike US (AU)PvP3,5283,1756,703
Chaos Bolt USPvP RP1,8231,2903,113
Lava Lash USPvE RP1,6798722,551
Penance US (AU)PvE591172763
Living Flame EUPvP12,88812,78925,677
Lone Wolf EUPvP13,04111,77124,812
Wild Growth EUPvE12,5065,67718,183
Crusader Strike EUPvP RP5,4025,87711,279
Chaos Bolt EUPvP2,8632,7025,565
Lava Lash EUPvE RP1,0082611,269
Penance EU (RU)PvEN/AN/AN/A
Shadowstrike EU (RU)PvPN/AN/AN/A
Data via IronForge.pro

Looking at the numbers overall, a few noticeable figures emerge. PvP servers in general are overwhelmingly more popular among Season of Discovery players, which is a similar trend seen in normal WoW Classic and Wrath Classic servers as well. On average, WoW Classic SoD servers see a split of about 60 percent Alliance players and 40 percent Horde players.

With the exception of the Crusader Strike U.S. server, RP servers in general are less popular than the non-roleplaying ones.


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Gökhan is a Staff Writer and Fortnite Lead at Dot Esports. Gökhan graduated as an industrial engineer in 2020 and has since been with Dot Esports. As a natural-born gamer, he honed his skills to a professional level in Dota 2. Upon giving up on the Aegis of Champions in 2019, Gökhan started his writing career, covering all things gaming, while his heart remains a lifetime defender of the Ancients.
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