Layering has no affect on queue times

[Jimcarrey-whitemane]

Just trying to dispel this persistent myth that will not die. Removing layering is not going to increase, or decrease, queue times at all.

I don’t understand why people still think it will.

[Startuptim-sulfuras]

@Jimcarrey-whitemane

Removing layering is not going to increase, or decrease, queue times at all.

People aren’t worried about layering itself as much as the massive exploits going on with layering, giving people MASSIVE gold, items, XP, and rep.

@Startuptim-sulfuras

The first response we need from Blizzard is to acknowledge that this is an exploit. As in, a very concise and clear statement that exploiting layer hopping for personal gain is against the rules of the game.

Everything else should move on from there, including fixing the exploit, rolling back gains (including level XP aka World’s First 60, including MC clearing including World’s First MC clear). Lastly, suspensions should be made, and this absolutely includes streamers, specifically the extremely large ones that provide Blizzard with a constant flow of free marketing.

Blizzard is in a tough spot. For them to truly acknowledge this exploit means they need to take action against the massive free marketing they are receiving via Twitch streamers. Make no mistake, these streamers provide Blizzard with massive marketing efforts for free. If Blizzard bans these streamers then they are going to take a lot of heat.

It is a tough spot: A) Hurt the community but get free marketing (allow exploit + streamers) or B) Repair trust with the community, fix the exploit, suspend abusers (streamers) and lose free marketing.

[Trallus-area-52]

This is false. Layering allows them to raise the cap, to what looks like somewhere around 18-20k, compared to vanilla serves which were 2.5-3k concurrent users.

If they removed layering the world would be a mess with that number of players. Even if they doubled the original cap, there would still be large queues on every server.

[Jimcarrey-whitemane]

Where are you getting your numbers from? I figure someplace where it stinks and the sun doesn’t shine.

[Trallus-area-52]

Census addons people are running. On whitemane I was pulling 7500 concurrent users on horde side when queues were up before the expanded capacity, on thunderfury I’m seeing up to 8500 and there are no queues. These are balanced realms so you can basically double that number to get a general idea of likely realm size.