
Playing on a realm with a time zone similar to the one you live in means more people will be on around the time you're going to play - assuming you play during peak hours (which varies but is usually between 6 p.m. If being immersed in a fantasy world and roleplaying your character is important, or interesting, to you - roleplaying realms should be considered.įor more information about roleplaying, visit this page. Although these categories are still present in World of Warcraft: Classic, the current version of the game only divides realms between 'Normal' and 'Roleplay' realms. Realms used to be divided into 4 categories: PvP, Normal, RP (Roleplay), and RPPvP but with World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth this division has ended.

Oceanic realms are mainly for english speakers.įor a complete list of the realms and their language, visit this page. Asian realms offer chinese and korean languages. The european realms cover a wider variety of languages: german, russian, french, spanish, italian, portuguese, and english. In the US servers players can find english, spanish and brazilian portuguese speaking realms. You might also be interested in learning a new language during your gameplay, so it will be helpful to interact virtually with foreigners. While you will not be banned if you do not fluently speak the other languages on the realm, you may feel more comfortable on a realm where the majority of players speak a language that you understand. Realms are divided up by which language is primarily spoken on them. However, moving Bob would require a second payment. However your second character (" alt"), Bob, remains fully playable and can moved to the same or even a different realm at your discretion. She is not playable for a short while during the move, and cannot be moved again for 3 days once the move has completed. For example: You have two characters named Bob and Alice, and you choose to move Alice to a different realm. The character will be unplayable while the transfer occurs, and a character can only be moved once every 3 days. For a fee, you may move a character to another realm. You can always start a new character on a different realm, and there is always the option of a paid Character Transfer. Remember, you are not forever locked into your realm decision.

However, you may still play with friends that aren't on your realm by inviting them to join your party, you just won't be able to do some things with them, like send them mail or trade items with them. The in-game mail system limits you to only mailing players on your current realm, and faction membership. Being able to move low level gear or transfer gold from a higher character to a lower character can make a significant difference in how fast that lower level character gets up to speed. You may create characters on many different realms if you like, but they will not be able support each other (e.g. With each character your create, you can only fully interact with people on the same realm, and who are members of the same faction (Horde vs Alliance) as your character. 6 What is the Horde/Alliance breakdown?.3 Do you enjoy roleplaying a character?.
