Quote Originally Posted by Vesse View Post
Hello all,

VIP player since launch returning from a three year hiatus, thinking about rolling a new char on Gilrain for old time's sake. Is this server really so dead at low levels? Like, will my husband and I be alone in the whole wide world? Are there active kinships in the higher levels? Community events? What is the server community like in general? Is there anything we should know?

Thanks in advance.
At the moment, when compared to other servers, Gilrain is pretty much dead both at low levels and at cap.. With the next update, Sapience has suggested that it will be made the preferred server for newcomers, which should mean a rather heavy influx of new players. Evernight is currently the recommended server, and if you visit that server, you indeed see enormous amounts (I'm talking dozens) of low-lvls walking around Bree, etc. (Though from following glff, I'd say it's roughly equally quiet at level cap, at least when it comes to running instances with non-kin.) On Gilrain, there are still a number of active kinships, but many are quasi-inactive as well, so it may or may not 'do' depending on what you hope to get out of kinship membership. If you want to run around with groups, you might want to wait a little while until 12.2 goes live; if you want to start now, I'd personally recommend you have a look at a few other servers (Withy/EverNight/Eldar) as well.