Kalecgos mammoth riders in Dalaran.

Johannah is a smite priest on the Kalecgos server.

The US Kalecgos server is named after the popular dragon Kalecgos of the Blue Dragonflight; he appears in the Sunwell raid and in the World of Warcraft manga, the Sunwell Trilogy.

When other WoW players ask me how Kalecgos is, I normally describe it as “small, like an everyone-knows-everyone town,” “borked economy,” and “not the best choice progression-wise.” Still, this is the server I started on, and I love the friends I’ve made here. Despite being part of the minority on a PvP server, I thoroughly enjoy the Alliance side and find that the players I’ve been playing with long-term are friendly, amazing people. We have our fair share of people on the other side of the “nice” fence that make you want to transfer sometimes–and we are prone to having more players that don’t know what they’re doing than “usual” from the census I’ve heard from “hardcore” gamers–but I would never tell someone to not roll on Kalecgos. The server needs more people anyways.

Kalecgos has an abundance of Horde and Alliance guilds. The top guild is Misfits (if done by level value). Johannah’s an officer of Momentum, a casual Alliance endgame guild; we’re always recruiting friendly, intelligent, and mostly-mature players for our 10-man raids. We keep saying we’d like to do 25-man raids someday, but we’ve been in a 2 10-man group rut for 2009.

The server is primarily Horde, at a 79% Horde : 21 % Alliance ratio according to Warcraft Realms (November 2009). The server is 29% Blood Elves; Johannah is part of a marginal 7% Night Elf community. We desperately need more Dwarves and Gnomes.

The highest played classes are death knights and paladins at a staggering 15% and 14%, respectively. We have a surprising balance of classes otherwise; even the underdog shaman is 7%, with priests, warlocks, and mages only one-percent higher. The Kalecgos community would welcome any class due to our balance across the server. My guild personally is rogue and warlock starved, and–funny as it is–has room for lots more hunters and mages. We have quite a few active druids, priests, and paladins, though we don’t close the doors to new ones. I’m not sure if we’re an accurate sampling of the Alliance Kalecgos side or not.

For Kalecgos players interested, last I checked, Kalecgos.net offers free hosting to all guilds on our server.