Agreed OP, that is the problem.
Watching soda do it to get resource nodes and then saying, “…if it is in the game I am going to abuse it.” is very frustrating.
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How do you explain then, that very valuable items that needs hours to farm are to be found in the AH for vendor price? Seriously,
I have been buying stacks of 20 leather for 1S, that is hillarious! Nothing has any value, as those exploiters keep farming it 24/7.
We need new servers where layering is disabled.
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Layering is a problem, if i play World of Warcraft “Classic” and can’t find my friend who’s right next to me in the same zone and area because he’s on a different “layer” in the WORLD of Warcraft.
It’s a problem when my server is highly populated, yet when i travel i see barely anyone in relevant leveling zones. It’s a problem when there’s a clear imbalance in the horde/alliance ratio, to the point where my guildies rely on switching layers for some quests as they just get immensely outnumbered on their layer so they can’t even deliver a quest.
When is the full game gonna release? Seeing as they bumped up server capacities, i suppose layerings gonna stay until about 0.5sec before release of P2, that is assuming they keep to their word saying they’d remove it in P2.
It’s such a shame this thing has the ability to tarnish the experience so freaking much, considering the rest of the game works wonderfully and they’ve done a great job there i think. But it feels SO bad when i see the phasing, the clear imbalances in my layer, the fact that i KNOW im on a layer and not the actual world everyone else gets to experience as well… im sorry but it just sucks a$$ from a player PoV.
Just please for the love of god, at least consider removing layering on realms that don’t explode into enormous queues once you do, that way you could even give people a nice incentive to migrate to less populated servers as they’ll receive the full Classic experience there, while otherwise they’d have to keep playing with layering on their original server.
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However, we also want to assure you that the issue is a much smaller problem than some people are claiming. We’ve been closely monitoring the effect layering is having on economies and other aspects of the game, and many of the stories we see posted are wildly inaccurate. We’ve seen screenshots of banks full of rare crafting materials, which we’ve investigated and proved false.
Been saying this for days while watching the drama queens flip out… it was done on every TLP for Everquest for years and the servers were completely fine…
Chicken Little’s are actually mad that they cant control the economy themselves so they scream to the sky about this like its a big deal… pretty funny actually!
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Did you not read? Layer switching is the problem, not the layering itself.
Excited for the Wheel of Time tv show?
Think about what you said.
What exploiter would go out of their way to lose money?
Nobody exploiting layering for mats is selling them right now and I’m like 99.9% sure on that.
Your leathers are so cheap because everyone and their mother is a gatherer and undercutting to the point that they don’t even realize they are losing money.
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Or because there are tens of thousands of people on each server… and the vast majority know a good way to get money is the gathering professions and fully 50%-70% of the mobs in the first 30 levels if not more are beasts…so the AH is flooded with the stuff?
Nah… that doesn’t make any sense… its the vast right wing conspiracy of hackers and hoppers that Blizz just told you isn’t real…
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well tthat’s reassuring. people had me ready to quit thinking the abuse was rampant. glad to know its been exaggerated. get rid of layering or tune it asap! =P
Why would you do this when Blizzard said layering wasn’t permanent in the first place?
Did Blizzard change their minds and decide to keep layering forever?
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What are you doing about the people that exploited layering to level to 60 at record speed? Still waiting for a answer.
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If that’s the bar you’re setting, then…
I will continue to layer hop to gank hordes, train my professions, and complete kill quests faster. How about you just remove this stupid feature. If a crappy private server hosted by some czech NEET can support 14k people from around the world with no lag, why can’t a multi billion dollar company do the same?
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“Lying a$$ trolls”.
I think I love Pazoraz a little.
I’m interested in this as well.
I also want to know the stance on people abusing it to collect resources.
Last night on Sodas stream he was asking his twitch chat for invites to force layering so he could harvest resources. When called out on it he replied, “I don’t like layering, but if it is in the game I am going to abuse it.”
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I just listened to a podcast where the world second level 60 claimed he had 300 devilsaur leather in his bank from layer swapping. Is this also false?
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I just wanna know how I find the layers with things alive in them, half the time everything’s dead and I spend more time roaming the jungle or swamp or whatever than actually seeing mobs.
Well this is obviously false, you can go over on twitch and see people with stack and stacks of materials and farming materials every 15-20 seconds by swapping layers. but hey at least you guys confirmed it is an exploit.
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I agree. Oh, how I agree.
It’s possible they didn’t really believe this many people would be interested in Classic for more than a week. As I understand it, layering is to help with server load concerns, correct?