Layers and Character Creation Adjustments on Select Realms

[Contention-benediction]

@Edward-whitemane

What does this mean for capital cities? Will there be 1 layer/shard per server or multiple. Makes world buff coordination tricky. More info would be appreciated.

The layers in Classic aren’t localized. If you’re on the wrong layer, no world boss, no nodes, no world buffs, no AQ event. Layer hop for better farming potential.

@Kaivax

Some have suggested layering only capital cities, a technology in WoW we call “sharding,” like we use in Battle for Azeroth. Each zone has as many copies as its population demands, and there’s no guaranteed coherence across zone boundaries. With sharding, the enemies and objects that you interact with in WoW aren’t allowed to cross those zone boundaries, so this is not a solution for WoW Classic.