Ok so this is my DK alt, main is 80 priest and like many people atm we are leveling alts right now. (yes the raid logging has already begun)
Nevertheless if anyone else on Benediction has been leveling characters you might have noticed something extremely bizarre and strange… and that is you barely see any other players while in zones. Yes even Northrend zones. Yet the server is still labeled as Full/locked.
Even when you go to stormwind or ironforge to go to the auction house those cities are empty as well. You’ll see a few people but not packed like it was pre wrath. The only place that is packed is obviously Dalaran.
I have a theory and that is that because the game is creating so many layers still (I believe yesterday it was up to 14 layers don’t quote me on that) that people are getting vastly spread out causing the normal leveling zones to look pretty barren.
Don’t get me wrong, there are benefits of this but also it’s almost counter intuitive to why people came to a “megaserver” in the first place. Honestly playing on this server is really no different than playing on a low pop server. The only difference is that at 80 dungeon groups are pretty easy to get. (If you are a healer or tank that is)
This death knight for example, while leveling the first couple levels in howling fjord, the entire day I didn’t see anybody chat at all in the zone chat. Moved onto dragonblight, the same thing. Maybe saw a couple people around wintergard but was about it. Grizzly hills also non existent. I started chatting in the zone chat to see if anyone would speak up, barely anybody spoke at all the entire day.
Now I don’t know what is the true issue going on but something is very odd. And I would put money down Blizzard is not even aware. If anyone has experienced or noticed this as well I’d like to hear.
Layers are spun up based on the most densely populated zone. If everyone is hanging out in dalaran you can get 10 layers with everywhere else feeling empty.
so basically what I figured is going on is what the issue is. Another thing is… why are the zone general chats separate as well. That should at least be linked together. Literally 6 hours the other day and saw like 1 person chat in the leveling zones.
In all fairness, layers were not intended to be a mainstay. Blizzard implemented them to allow more people to be able they play on a server during the busier times. It was actually a pretty good idea. Unfortunately, the players had to abuse layering, pretty much like how they abused everything else in Classic.
Right but it’s not a bug or an issue blizzard is unaware of. This is how it has always worked. Maybe it’s exacerbated because more of the population is idling in major cities then normal currently on your server? Not sure.
On pagle leveling my rogue alt I have had pretty good experience running into people and finding groups for quests.
It was abused bad in retail when it first rolled out, still has a lot of cheesy things that can be done to take advantage of them, the knowledge bled over to classic.
I actually don’t doubt it, less layers so people are more evenly spread out around the world, not all bunched up in Dalaran where 90% of the server is residing just on different layers
sure did, may not have been dubbed ‘layers’, but I remember using it to hop around to get rare mounts when they had the 3 day spawns in WoD, and it was a big generator for the boosting communities when they’d take you to a layer with timelost proto or the void talon spawn…
Cross real zones/sharding is completely different tech.
Most people log in, do daily, raid if they haven’t, log out or sit in dalaran. Most people are not in the open world.
Everyone offline or in dalaran.
I mean, I know many people don’t have time to do 6-8 hours of raiding, all the required dailies, plus pvp if that’s your thing on top of leveling another alt. Most of us are trying to not fall behind on our mains so we don’t have time for the alts we might want to level at some point.