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Honestly, even leveling one of the most pvp gimped classes on large PvP server, I didn't experience too much trouble. I was inconvenienced at times, mad at times, but moreso rewarded, and it wasn't all that much. Most PvP action was with post-60 life (blues and epic hunting time) centering around instances that had hot-potato temporary holding between horde and alliance. I'm glad wild west "outlands" is wild with open pvp between factions. Most of the PvP action will move there, and levelers aren't really bothered either way.

The biggest action always centered around the biggest raiding parties, and even they weren't always keen on PvP--wanting to get on with the instance. I've waded through entire guilds of the other faction because they had orders to not engage in PvP, and just 'get to the instance'

Honestly, a corpse run from this "close to instance graveyard" policy Blizzard has is minor time offset best. It used to be worse, but GY's are so close to hotspots there's little to complain about. [right][snapback]93422[/snapback][/right]

There's another issue with 'Normal' servers you might be missing:
The most balanced of Normal servers hass about 2 alliance players to every horde player... the most balanced.

On these servers any open PvP areas will be a huge pain for horde. PvP servers are more balanced to begin with, so there is not as large an issue. But I remember playing my rogue in Eastern Plaguelands, It seemed more like a 3 or 4:1 ratio rather than the ~2:1 the census sites report for Terenas.

So will that drive to balance things further? I'm not sure, it seems people who prefer PvE... the kind of people who would roll a char on a Normal ruleset server... might go for alliance just so they don't have so much issue with PvP in the 60+ areas.