Dawn of Midgard vs Sarah Server

After taking a short break from RO, I looked for some good low-rate servers and the ones which made the list were Dawn of Midgard and Sarah Server.

I played both of them for a while and here are my opinions on both the servers:


Dawn of Midgard 


Pros:

• Good stable server with nice customisation.
• They generate revenue by offering tremendous amount of costume headgears.
• Server has been around for a while and has a stable economy.
• All high-tier equipment i.e. Bison Horns, Ice Picks, Salamander cards etc are available on market at a reasonable price.
• Very good WoE competition.
• The staff are trying hard to please both the PvM and WoE players.
• Plans to add new PvM content i.e. New World.

Cons:

• The server has very poor population compared to its counter-part. It also seems to be gradually decreasing.
• During my timezone the peak hits ~350 with around 100-150 being vendors.
• Lately, the server has a lot of spikes/lag(my whole guild is experiencing it). Not sure if there has been a server downgrade.
• The most stupid party play I have ever seen in my whole RO career. Basically, your party just AFKs in a corner while the mobbers lure from the entire map.
• Practically no diversity in party play. It is always Anolian ->Magma -> Abyss 3. Unless you have your own group of friends, don't expect any fun parties.
• If 2-3 guilds quit WoE, the server will decline very rapidly.
• Intended mostly for solo play(multi-client) and using AFK parties for quick level boost.

Sarah Server


Pros:

• 2.5k+ Users Online!!! I haven't seen that many people on since IRO.
• Multi-client is disabled.
• Low-Rates and classic gameplay brings back old memories.
• Parties literally everywhere.
• Very easy to find a group of friends.
• Proxy Sever for US, EU and SEA. Seriously, why hasn't anyone thought of this before? They literally have 7-10 proxy/direct connections for their server.

Cons:

• Almost the entire community is from Philippines.
• Don't expect anyone to speak English unless you specifically ask them.
• It gets quite annoying when you have no clue what the party is saying.
• The current episode consists of only 2-1 jobs and you have have to wait till June-July for the 2-2 jobs to be implemented.
• The View Range is fixed to 12-14 cells. This was a big turn-off for me as I wanted to play a Hunter.

So, after trying our both of them, I am planning to stay in DoM. I wanted to make a Rogue and go exploring, so it feels DoM offers more fun compared to Sarah. The good market economy and Autoloot seem to be an added advantage.
It is true that the server might die in a couple of months, but it doesn't really matter when you are playing a solo Rogue :P

DoM, here I come with my Thief!


-Coco