Server:Darrowmere US
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Darrowmere US (PvP) is named after Darrowmere Lake in the Western Plaguelands. The realm opened on Oct. 5, 2006 and is a Pacific time zone (UTC-8) realm. Like the other members of Battlegroup US Whirlwind, the servers for Darrowmere are physically located in Seattle, Washington, USA. (See US realm list by datacenter.)
Free realm transfers to Darrowmere took place from Jan. 22, 2008 to Jan. 29, 2008 from Mal'Ganis, Kel'Thuzad, Sargeras, Tichondrius, and Maelstrom.
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General Information
Community
Darrowmere has a friendly, tight-knit feeling and a strong community. Many transfers to other realms find themselves coming back or rerolling on Darrowmere in order to continue to take part in the community they left behind. Darrowmere had long been among the lowest-population servers since, but starting with free realm transfers that took place in late Jan. 2008 the population has risen dramatically.
As of June 2008, the realm continues to have a low population but is no longer in the bottom grouping of realms by population. The realm has generally seen a Horde bias (perhaps as much as 2:1 or higher over Alliance), although this seems to have been evening out somewhat in recent months. Server queues are nonexistent on Darrowmere.
PvP Activity
Like many PvP servers, Darrowmere has a strong PvP community, active in both battlegrounds and Arena. Queue times for battlegrounds are generally never longer than 10 minutes for Horde, more often under 5 minutes, and arena queue times are similar.
Large world PvP raids on opposing faction capitals are uncommon but not unheard of.
Economy
The economy on Darrowmere is typical of smaller population servers. Levelling gear tends to be in short supply (and can be rather overpriced, being aimed primarily at twinks), while TBC gear is underpriced in comparison to more-populated servers, although there is a reasonable selection of it. Epic crafted items, extremely rare drops and recipes and profession crafting mats generally sell for lower than they would on higher population servers, probably due to lower demand, and rare drops often take relatively longer to sell.
Progression
As of May 2008, Àfterlife (Horde) is furthest in PvE endgame progression, with 5/5 Hyjal, 9/9 Black Temple, and 0/6 Sunwell Plateau.
The PvE raiding scene on Darrowmere tends to be focused more on casual raiding than hardcore progression raiding.
Guild Lists
Lists below are incomplete. Refer to the realm forum (see link below) for the most current information.
Active PvE Endgame Guilds
Active PvP Guilds
| Difficulty Set to Easy | -- |  Armory
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| Resistance | -- | Armory
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| Furious Napkins | -- | Armory
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Active Levelling/Karazhan Guilds
| Iron Knights | -- | Armory
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| Nocturne | -- | Armory
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| Ookami | -- | Armory
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| Orphan Feast | -- | Armory
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| Roll Haxx | Web | Armory
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| Sweet Dreams | -- | Armory
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External Links
worldofwarcraft.com Darrowmere Forum
Opinions Regarding Darrowmere
From Freakshot3, March 2008:
- Although the community is tight, most are Carebears that are just plain bad players. Although there is a strong population of PvPers there is very few people on the server that have the required skill to raid. It is a Mystery why only 1 Ally guild is doing T5 Content while the rest of the server is stuck in the 1st Raid of the expansion(Kara-for the nubs)...over a year after the expansion was released.
- Aberrance-->Focus...was the only chance Ally had on Darrowmere after BC. However too many QQers and other things stopped progression and the server was factionized, yet again.
- Darrowmere Heroes- Tahiah, Jehovahs, Krotos, Freek, Freezy, Spiteful, Perg, Reon, Kitkatbar, Matrix, Xal, Kwaga, Sylvannis, Veli, Keydash, Vidallio, Hart ---These People were the last chance...see how many are left?
