I mean I will just open this bandaid that seems to be recurring, and never truly got addressed for roleplay servers regarding cities in expansions. Is there ever plans to allow for roleplay server phasing for locations like Dornogal, Valdraken, etc? Never seems to be a pressing issue, however seems to be the way it gets done for vanilla esque cities, could be fun to see that in new locations that the developers, and artists go really into detail with.
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At this point, after completely shrekking over Tournament of Ages, I am firmly of the mind that Blizzard doesn’t have many internal processes focused on RP, if at all.
It’d be nice to have these quality of life things made for the RP servers. It really would. Fel, I’d settle for Explorer Mode dungeons and raids. Let the people play amongst the assets the team spent a long time creating with no NPCs populating the instance.
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The ruleset is, all legacy content including main cities are supposed to be unphased on RP servers. Current content like all of Khaz Algar has phasing, like Valdrakken did last expansion, and Oribos did the expansion before that, and Boralus did the expansion before that.
TOA this year was unfortunately a casualty of all of Northrend being one “map” in the game coding in terms of rulesets, there was no way to unphase Icecrown and have the Radiant Echoes event in Dragonblight still phased, which it had to be due to the number of people participating and shooting off constant spells and combat.
I’ll say this, it was annoying and detrimental to getting newer people there and participating who had to hit the ground running with a lot of knowledge on addons and Discord servers and searching for open groups, but it was also nice in that there was very near ZERO trolling this year compared to the last few years where there were persistent jerks ruining things like the dating auctions, opening and closing ceremonies and the stage performances that were all hit by persistent nonsense the last few years.
Hopefully there’s nothing else going on in Northrend next year so it can get fixed up, though.