For those people who want to move or start a new character, THAURISSAN is the new recommended realm for Malaysians.

Is it good for raiding?
There were originally many Asian guilds that progressed into Sunwell in Thaurissan, and now coming expansion a few more SG/MY/AUS T6 quality guilds will transfer there as well. Assuming no pre-patch guild implosions and including guilds that will transfer there, there would be at least six GMT+8 raiding guilds.

What about casuals?
There will also be several casual 10man raiding guilds that are Oceanic. As opposed to old school NA servers, Orgrimmar and Ironforge are generally bustling around local Malaysian evening. The raiding pool is better for recruitment. Getting groups for 5mans or farm-status raids (e.g. Gruul) is generally easier for people after school and work.

Are you poaching me? I'm happy with my current server!
This post is just for people who need a home. If you are doing good with your current server and guild, stay there.

Are you sure Thaurissan is the place to go?
Currently, it is where our communities are transferring to. It has the most visible and substantial community of regional people. Of course no one can predict what will happen in the distant future, guilds will come and go. Also, there will always be many other realms under the radar that have pockets of Asians. Finally, your niche will vary depending on your lifestyle.

How is the latency?
As of early September 2008, with my friends and I using Streamyx with decent IPs, latency will vary between 300 to 450. Tunneling services like Gamepath or Lowerping may reduce that further by 50 to 100.

How are the Battlegrounds?
As of September 2008, Horde queues for AV were around 10mins. It is below average for a battlegroup faction, so it is not the best if you like to BG a lot. However, things will likely improve in next expansion.

How about Alliance?
Alliance is smaller in number compared to Horde, but have generally better PVE and PVP progression with respect to population pool.

Thaurissan used to have insane Horde to Alliance ratios, whereby Horde numbers were so overwhelming that Alliance toons had trouble questing and doing dailies. When Blizzard started free PVE->PVP transfers, Thaurissan Alliance was one of the main beneficiaries. Several top end Alliance guilds transferred that and carved their niche. SG/MY guild <Ghost> was the top raiding guild in Gorgonnash, and they recently moved to Thaurissan for better raiding pool.

Why are you posting this?
People always keep asking which server to go in these forums, and the stickies are too scattershot and outdated. Choosing a new realm can be a confusing process for people, so this post is meant to give a specific choice. I have no agenda against/for Thaurissan except for good friends who recently moved there.

This post has been edited by Aggroboy: Oct 13 2008, 11:25 AM

It's the side effect if you want more people to do raids/pvp with during your leisure hours

If you go to a more quiet server, you absolutely NEED to have a stable set of friends will do heroics/PVP/raids with you at most times. If you just go to a quiet population and you don't have a lot friends or an active guild, you're pretty much screwed. I know some people like those, they "left the drama" to a quiet realm, only to be struggling to LFG for heroics and spend more of the free time AFKing in AV. That's far worse.

There are a lot of MY/SG people on Alliance side as well, including super hardcore GHOST and Steamboat.

But whether they post in these forums, I dunno

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Added on November 9, 2008, 10:08 amFor hardcore malaysian raiders, there are 5 horde guilds and 3 alliance guilds that raid our time in Thaurissan and will push WOTLK content in coming weeks.

Very high chance that most will see Arthas at the endgame.

This post has been edited by Aggroboy: Nov 9 2008, 10:08 AM