Do we have any ideas on what the plans for “connected realms” going forward will be? I know it’s planned to connect more of them - but I wasn’t sure if any goals/outlines/information has been provided.
I’m on Garrosh US. My server has been dead since before Cataclysm. Our realm first Deathwing was barely in the top 1k worldwide. My guild pretty much disbanded at the end of Cata. We were burned out and most just stopped playing. A few server transferred when that happened. Some came back when Pandas launched, but… even that was temporary.
But… I watched Blizzcon and got excited and felt nostalgic and decided to go get myself re-addicted. WoW’s a helluva drug. I found a new guild - played with some folks - and then they decided to split up and each group server transferred. Garrosh is still dead.
Going by wowprogress (I know, not a perfect measure) Garrosh is literally last on the list in terms of population in English servers. It’s second to last among all servers (Tol Barad is worse - sorry). I know someone has to be last - I get that - but population-wise Stormrage is literally (not figuratively) 20+x the population of Garrosh. I’m Horde, so if we’re talking Horde populations, Garrosh isn’t last, but it’s still pretty bad.
I know a number of connected realms were created, but looking through the connected realms there’s plenty of them still toward the bottom (and very far behind at that). Is the goal to create some level of parity among realms? Obviously reaching the largest realms is really a longshot (most likely even if you offer free transfers off the largest realms) but I’m just trying to get a feel for what I should be hoping for.
So…merge all “Low” servers for economic balance? Or merge all “low” each with 1 “full” for guild activity? We’d see more people online if crz wasn’t a thing, because then there’s no confusion on dead servers.
How long ago was it when they did combine our less pop realms? Seems like a few years ago. Anyone know? Due to low subs I would think its time to do it again.
If you don’t like your low or mid pop server, then transfer to, or reroll on a high pop one. Some of us actually like not having to fight with 50 other people for every herb, mob and ground spawn in the game.
Also, server populations are always low at the end of an xpac. Doubly so, when it’s the end of a bad xpac. Server pops will jump again when Shadowlands is released, so Blizzard has to be prepared for that. That means not merging servers if they’d be too big once the release drops.
It was before then. The majority of my horde alts are Dentarg, (my Horde main is Whisperwind, so I know it wasn’t before Mists). I’d say it was around the start of WoD as all of them were max level during WoD.
You don’t even do that anymore. Nodes are personal. And anything in 8.3 that was reverted or with faction mob tags… you are not fighting over things with people from your own server. I am on a Horde dominated server, and I see far too many Alliance I’m competing against for mobs; they are NOT from my server. It’s all CRZ crap.
Gathering nodes are multi-tap. The first 5 or so people get it, then it disappears. Most mobs are faction tagged, so you’re just fighting against the other team, which would be ok… But, with 20 people all trying to smack some WQ boss, it can easily get splattered before some people can even tag it.
Ground spawns are either personal or FFA. Think about all the invasion quests that require you to open a cage or destroy an obelisk. You’re competing with everyone around you for those.
Yes, CRZ produces most of those, but if you merge two or more realms, it produces all the same problems and more. Especially if Blizzard merges realms that weren’t CRZed before hand. And if you don’t think you see enough people in the world now, then you’re definitely asking for unrelated realms to be merged.
At this point I think just make the battle groups your server, old servers would just be your surname and default shard. Then give the battle group one AH and allow guilds and groups to be made from anywhere in the group.
I get that you prefer low-pop servers. They already said they’re doing more connections though - I was just wondering if there was anymore information about it. I’d like to know what the end-goal is. I don’t want to server transfer if the end goal is to try to reach parity anyway.
Also, as a side note, unless they decided to merge/connect/whatever 15 or so low pop servers (and some of those are already connected) you wouldn’t reach the size of Stormage, Illidan, Sargeras. I don’t expect to see anything like that.
But if their goal is to maintain - let’s say a minimum value - then it’d be cool to know.
How? A lot of the players I see are people from high pop servers. You honestly believe that people on high pop servers somehow get merged in CRZ with more people instead of keeping the sharding relatively the same number for all players regardless of realm?
