Repeat time to request Earthen Ring to be connected to other Realms.
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Here’s an anecdote of how the low server pop is affecting things. I started up playing again after having stopped mid 9.0 so I can try for AotC Jailer. Having pretty much skipped this expac I forgot that legendary powers can only be applied to certain gear slots and accidentally bought a runecarving helm when I needed either a chest or cape.
The helm cost me 45k, which is already 2 to 10 times the going price of more populated servers, but I could just resell it back. Problem is there are only like 3 other sellers of the item and they were fairly quick to undercut me and it takes time to find new buyers. Now I’m not a 1 silver undercutter, if I undercut I’m going to actually make it worth while and will try to knock down a noticeable amount.
Over about 4 days I had brought the price down to about 24k before it finally sold, with the competitors regularly going 1 silver below me and myself lopping off 500 to 2k gold at a time. This in turn seemed to drag down the prices of the other runecarving pieces until all the pieces were in the 25-29k range.
My one uninformed purchase and efforts to undo it ended up tanking the whole leather runecarving gear market by about 33% over less than a week, granted that it is was/is relatively inflated compared to other servers.
I have long grown used to the mostly empty zones and seeing many of the players I do come across be from The Scryers or Argent Dawn, but that’s when I was pretty much like yeah, we could probably do with a connection.
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I have no idea why we’re not connected. We’ve speculated long and hard about it, but there’s really no explanation that we can think up that doesn’t assume the worst from Blizzard, which even they would tell you is a completely fair assumption at this point. I actually would not be surprised if we did get merged, finally, given the change in direction. However, given the dedicated effort to ignoring us they’ve put forward, I also would not be surprised if they don’t. If it is even the slightest technical challenge, Blizz won’t do it. They never do. Technical stuff? Psh. It’s Blizzard, come on. If they can’t outsource it, they won’t do it.
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There’s also, like NO RP left. Every single RPer I knew prior has left and taken their guilds with them. So even the RP designation just doesn’t matter any more. I’d be happy to sit down and have a good convo with anyone @Blizzard about this, and I promise I will not be as salty as I sound in these posts, believe me. Just also understand that, like… This has been a sinking ship for so long. I am responsible for so many people in my community, and I can’t just bail on them or divide them with server Xfers. Everyone wants to go different places, and furthermore, a lot of us don’t want to pay for a mistake we didn’t make, reward neglect, or give Blizz money given certain events. But there’s the additional problem that, even if it were free, we would end up divided. The solution is merging. @BlizzardCS @Blizzard anyone that sees this, if you need me to do some homework for you, talk to me. I’ll do it. Xenkore#1802 Btag, Xenkore#0045 Discord.
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The sad part is that this topic was created almost 2 years ago.
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Earthen Ring feels more like a retirement home at this point. 2 years later from this post and things are still the same. What I wouldn’t give to see this realm become active!
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