I used to think servers were all blended together. I used to play on Illidian and there you’d see a bunch of different people from different servers. It was pretty much them either standing around or doing dailies. Never really saw anyone talking with each other.
I decided to re-roll on Frost Wolf and while I’m still seeing a lot of people from various realms, it seems to be the same people. I don’t think I’ve run past the same person leveling outside of classic in ages.
People also seem to talk here o_o I’ve seen people just hang around, chat, help each other. Just seems like such a different experience.
But I’m CONFUSED, because I really thought everything was blended together?
In terms of grouping, you can group with anyone on any server now.
In terms of who you will see in capital cities, I believe that is based on your server group.
As an example, I always see the same Draka and Suramar people in Borlaus, but will also see people from other servers when they have shifted over to my shard from a group they may have been in.
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Is there a way to know what server group you’re on?
This is a list of the connect realms:
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/11393305/connected-realms-update-8-20
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The attitude changes.
When you go to a lower server, you’ll see more from other servers that shard with you to give you the illusion of an active world but more times than not it’s your server that is dead.
So while you’ll still be able to group with others, finding a Guild etc or further group content could be a bit harder or take longer.
The attitudes is what change. I noticed in lower pop realms you can meet more relaxed atmosphere’s… more people chatting that isn’t about Politics… etc…
It’s why I left realms like Stormrage, Dalaran, Area-52 and don’t want to go back to them.
As far as I can tell the only way in which servers matter at all in anyway is that the higher population servers tend to have more people spamming Mythic dungeon or Raid carries for money in trade chat which kind of makes the game less social if you ask me and that on those servers naturally its easier get a Mythic raid going when pugs haven’t been made available yet.
You’re going to see two different things:
Connected Realms, meaning you basically server merged with those people. You all just got to keep your names and guild names, but you’ll see the server name at the end of their name in chats and on the tooltip. You can trade and be in the same guild, etc. Because you’re really all server merged. It’s just a smart merger.
And then there’s CRZ (cross realm zones). That’s where they decide if there’s not enough people in that area, they take people from outside your Connected Realms and shove them all together to make it look full. You can’t trade with those people, sometimes you can’t communicate with them (it’s weird how whispers work with CRZ) and you’ll see an asterisk after their name.