Blizzard just hotfixed the ability to detect layers using /who command

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@Brother-deviate-delight

Certainly, sometimes you can use the search to determine layers, but it’s not going to work every time. Those functions just search for specific terms (Orgrimmar zone, and anything containing Orgrimmar, such as name, guild, etc).

You are right, it searches other info as well. But we had 2 queries in which query 1 had a small subset of players (all “Orgrimmar”) and query 2 had a larger set of players (all “Orgrimmar” as well). It’s not like we had players from random other zones that had “Orgrimmar” in their names or guild or whatever else. Question was simple - why weren’t players from query 2 showing up in query 1 as well, given that they were also in the “Orgrimmar” zone.

Player proves you can determine your layer with /who (proof inside)

Again, their Zone is still Orgrimmar. If there would have been other players, outside of Orgrimmar in the 2nd set, I would understand. The 2nd set clearly contains more players that are in the Orgrimmar Zone, correct? Why aren’t these in the 1st query?

Player proves you can determine your layer with /who (proof inside)

While my statement is true, that does not appear to be the difference in these photos… since all players zones are listed as Orgrimar in the 2nd picture. However the background for both photos is distinctly different and there is no clock so it appears they were just taken at different times.