Let’s talk about the Friends List with Battle.net. 
Currently, the max is 200 friends which has created an issue for some of the player base.
While this seems like a large number (and for some it is), there are a many people who do a ton of group content (RBGS, m+, pug raiding, etc) who are at the 200 cap and have been for a few expansions. Because of this, they have to make the choice to remove someone from their friends list in order to add someone else.
We once had a cap of 100, and it was raised to 200 back in mid-2015. I’m not sure why there is currently a low limit like this - I understand some people may have a primal urge to add several thousand people and it would clog something up, and I can understand putting a hard cap in place to limit lag or issues that may arise from someone mass-adding/requesting.
Raising it to 250, 300, 500, etc., could help a lot of people out who do group content in WoW or play multiple battle.net games (and may need to have a larger list simply for that reason) and little overlap of friends between those games.
Would it be too much to ask to have this limit increased again for 9.2.5 (or sooner)? What do you think?
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I’ve ran into this issue myself in the past and I know a few friends along with Guild members that have had this happen to them as well.
As a result of this, I now regularly clear my friends list of players that have not logged in for a specific amount of time. The only people I don’t remove off my friends after being inactive for a (3) month period is friends I’m close with or family members that play.
I would love it if the cap was raised by another 100 members at the very least. This would make it so I don’t need to clean my friends list as often.
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I’ve seen that a lot on streams that do community Events. They have to clear up all the time to get new people on their friend list. And they are limited by that number with their events. It does not feel great do delete people, you know you will have to add again later. I think even having 50 slots more will help a lot.
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I think this’d be a great idea. Communities sort of work as an extension of the friends list, but it’s not really a perfect solution to fixing the problem of the 200 friends cap. Maybe also add the option to sort friends into categories, or add tags to them would help if the number of friends get too staggering to keep track of?
On the in-game friend and ignore lists; perhaps something similar can be done, particularly for the latter. Also, since the recent change makes you ignore all characters associated with the ignored player’s account, there has been a minor oversight: you can still be whispered by that same player if they have multiple WoW accounts. The ignore option should also ignore all other WoW accounts associated with the same battle.net account.
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I think it should be very high cause ive been capped at 200 btags forever and constantly removing people just to add someone new gets old when you actually wanna keep friends who might just be quitting for an expansion. I think ive run into people who I use to have on my Btag more than people who want to add me recently. If they cant expand the Btag cap they should at least create a recently played with tab for RBGS, Mythic Plus, Raids, etc. I think this would also help things like the upcoming solo shuffle and cross faction stuff.
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Definitely agree. I prune my friends list every year so I’ve never hit it but it definitely needs an increase.
A few of the limits involving people very much need an increase.
The guild member and community member limits being 1000 is very restricting especially when it goes by character and not account. I’m taking up 2.7% of my guilds roster and that’s silly.
If they insist on limits like that it should be account wise, not character.
The ignore list is another one. No one should ever be unable to block someone who is harassing them or making them uncomfortable. The ignore list in particular should not have a limit at all.
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Ignore should auto flag that battlenet account and ignore further communication. A lot of people spend way too much time and energy on repeatedly harassing someone so it would be nice to have a bnet ignore
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I overwhelmingly support this. As someone who engages in Arena, RBG, M+, Raiding, and casual content, I am CONSTANTLY having to remove Bnet friends to add new. There should be an auto-expiration instead where someone is removed after a period of inactivity rather than having it capped.
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