I believe Stalagg is good evidence of this, it was the other server than Herod which has been adopted by the reddit community and that I believe OP's post essentially details what I claimed. I believe that it would've been interesting to have servers stratified by perceived participant skill/dedication tags from the start in addition to this rulesets ie classic wow gold, PvE etc.. I think if far more WOW players had simply rolled PvE or rolled a Casual tagged server similar to what you did from the start the overall server health and total player pleasure would be much better. All of this with the caveat assuming Blizzard would have made an estimate somewhere inside the exact same zip code of the actual demand and published an appropriate number of servers initially of course.

I think that the challenge is orderly. Vanilla had several mechanics that encouraged planet pvp and involvement, but I believe you have seen its effect on a minute maxed mindset. I think unless you discover a group of people who simply pvp, and nothing else. Adding raiding as a secondary item (because who needs wbuffs to clear articles actually ). You'll have this situation. Why do you think this in TBC, wbuffs ware eliminated, and wbosses were largely removed esp later on. With PvP being transferred to instanced events which attempts to make things fair and not cause people to fear migrate due to imbalance in the overworld. But then they had to produce things such as the MoP farm along with WoD farmville together with modifications to raid consumes and careers like feasts and flask cauldrons.

I believe sadly, you need to choose, both your guild is willing to go without wbuffs and be the little faction on a vast majority enemy faction server to PvP. Or you reside less or, either with or without queues. Unless it becomes WOW Classic+, the majority of WOW Classic mechanics will indicate that if you are worried with PvE progression like wbuffs and first week AQ, then PvE servers using a huge horde population is going to be your go to. Or as when the week AQ40 pvp server is understood, you say, to jump servers.

The lesson to learn here is that"the biggest and most popular" isn't really"the best". I play on a medium sized RP server and the experience is closer to vanilla. The machine is still more populated and larger than any vanilla machine was, however there are not any queues, neither faction has to worry that server equilibrium may go against them and they literally can not play (well, cos it is not PvP~), and so on. There bots, people run dungeons instead of everyone becoming boosts.

I've had no complaints about such or the host. Great luck with this mess OP. Frankly, I really don't think there's a simple solution even for cheap wow classic gold and I'm not so confident there are several of those on this undertaking.