Did anyone catch it when blizzard said they won't be merging servers?

[Galdor-maelstrom (Galdor)]

I didn’t even think of this, good catch. I’ll definitely be playing on one of the most populated PvP servers to best avoid a dead server situation in the long run. I’m currently on a dead realm and it really, really sucks.

[Fesz-cenarius]

meaning my guild, friends etc alliance side are gone as my toons are exiled to the other server?

If you’re playing on a PVP server X, on Horde, your Horde guild would all go to server A. If you’re playing on a PVP server Y, on Alliance, your Horde guild would all go to server B. You can’t have Horde and Alliance on the same account on the same server, so its not an issue to split them up.

It really only would be a problem if they merged repeatedly over time, and all the groups got mashed by playing on multiple servers.

If i understand correctly, the OP is saying that if Johnny is playing Horde on PVP server A and Alliance on PVP server B, PVP servers A and B cannot be merged without Johnny having both factions on a single PVP server.

[Ristra-suramar (Ristra)]

meaning my guild, friends etc alliance side are gone as my toons are exiled to the other server?

If you’re playing on a PVP server X, on Horde, your Horde guild would all go to server A. If you’re playing on a PVP server Y, on Alliance, your Horde guild would all go to server B. You can’t have Horde and Alliance on the same account on the same server, so its not an issue to split them up.

It really only would be a problem if they merged repeatedly over time, and all the groups got mashed by playing on multiple servers.

If i understand correctly, the OP is saying that if Johnny is playing Horde on PVP server A and Alliance on PVP server B, PVP servers A and B cannot be merged without Johnny having both factions on a single PVP server.

Which if we look back at the time server combining started happening it probably is the same time that Blizzard dropped cross faction character creation limitations on PvP servers.

[Eloraell-moon-guard]

That doesn’t address the issue. What are you saying? That there will be 1 Horde pvp server (where all horde characters go) and 1 Alliance pvp server (where all alliance characters go)?

Uh, that would be literally the worst possible implementation. For any given Server, all your Horde characters would go to one of the PVP servers. And all your Alliance from a different server, would go to the other PVP server. For a different unrelated player, all their Alliance characters would go to the PVP server where your horde characters went, and all their Horde characters would goto the server where your Alliance characters went. Ensuring balance.

Where possible, you would move a given guild of Horde characters to the same server as each other, but that’s where it becomes a difficult thing, if some people in the guild had Horde characters moved from a different server to the server where your Alliance characters moved, because you couldn’t have Horde and Alliance.

Essentially, merging servers becomes a mess that breaks up communities which is why its bad to intentionally plan for it.

[Eloraell-moon-guard]

If i understand correctly, the OP is saying that if Johnny is playing Horde on PVP server A and Alliance on PVP server B, PVP servers A and B cannot be merged without Johnny having both factions on a single PVP server.

Correct. Which is why at the end of all possible server merging, there will be 1 RP, 1 PVE, and 2 PVP servers.

[Wamp-mannoroth]

but what timezone would they be in? and now it gets crazy

[Eloraell-moon-guard]

but what timezone would they be in?

If everyone is on the server it really doesn’t matter. Anyone you could play with would be online at the time they are online.

[Padrepwn-kiljaeden (Padrepwn)]

Which if we look back at the time server combining started happening it probably is the same time that Blizzard dropped cross faction character creation limitations on PvP servers.

They snuck this in. People thought it was a bug. Think it was when race changes were added and when they lifted the cooldown on server transfers. Iirc that is.

[Ashkandii-saurfang]

if they merge servers there will be alot of people ending up on both factions. PVP server will be faction locked.

Or they guarantee there’ll be at least 2 PVP servers, and when they merge servers, your PVP characters will go to one server or the other.

There could be a faction change in this case but I don’t know how they would handle paladin and shaman.

[Eloraell-moon-guard]

There could be a faction change in this case but I don’t know how they would handle paladin and shaman.

Huh? Why would they need to faction change? If there are 2 PVP servers, all your Horde would end up on one, and all your Alliance would end up on the other. And for another person it would be reversed, to maintain balance.