the anniversary servers are terrible, it’s one of the key reasons I’ve stopped playing on them, you can’t do a damn thing in the open world, quests take 3x as long, good luck farming resources because you aren’t.
I swear to God anyone who thinks mega servers are a good idea needs to have their head examined, I’m pretty sure their brain ceased functioning. As I’ve said if they merge the servers and I go from a nice Medium Pop which is the best overall population to a full server I will quit, and so will a bunch of others because we don’t want it. We could have chosen to go to a mega server we choose to go to Aitesh, and we are not interested in merging with the other PVE servers so that they feel like the world is full, my experience and enjoyment should not be compromised because you’re to weak and infantile to play the game without being constantly surrounded.
They’ll make it happen because they did it when it dropped the first time.
For the sake of consistency and accuracy, they’ll do it.
It will be crossrealm
“Blizzard first used cross-realm features in the open world with [Cross-Realm Zoning (CRZ), which was introduced with Mists of Pandaria. This allowed players to invite friends from other realms to temporarily “phase” into their realm. Additionally, cross-realm grouping for dungeons and raids was implemented between patches 4.2.0a and 4.2.2, and cross-realm queues for arenas and battlegrounds were introduced later”
Granted, that was less because they didn’t want to add it and more because they broke it beyond repair trying to change it - but that just raises concerns over them breaking something like CRZ trying to implement it
Just to be clear, I couldn’t care less if CRZ are implemented or not. I’m just pointing out that the idea of “it was in the original so they definitely will do the same in Classic” is a dead and buried idea
that little qol change actually makes “mega” work better.
when 100 people are there its all good. Get a piece of the mob, all get the credit. Quest complete move on.
Some go join/make a group. Great answer. Only has 1 of 2 flaws.
Some won’t let you into groups there. those 2/3 dudes don’t want your company. their group, their rules. Is what it is applies. Or…
they decline your group offers. With rdps, they tend to not have too lol. I remember starting anniv day 1 as melee. the dark lady armies were legion. tons of undead, tons of mob tagging drama.
almost there, mob is 4 steps away from hittable. and…rdps shoots the tag.
This is why if some wonder why some rogues are throwing axes, its to range tag. We know sneak up to opener is more dps. throw the axe, get the tag. Since rdps will not give 2 craps as they see you stealth up and steal that mob lol.
That’s probably one of the only reasons I like leveling in retail is because of shared tags. I don’t have to worry about respawn rates or anything of the sort. I can just walk up, tag it, loot and get credit.
Without it, you’re too busy waiting for mob respawns that can be very slow in some areas, and the quests that would take you 10 min. to do, now take about 30-40 minutes. If you do a merged server or a CRZ like atmosphere and don’t add that QoL, it’s completely going to turn people off of leveling.
This game isn’t nearly as group friendly as it used to be, most players these days are solo levelers and prefer it that way. That’s not even accounting for the trolls that would tag something right before you do and then just let you kill it while they go tag something else.
Shared tags are vastly superior to layers. At least you’ll see a lot of players around, instead of layering it down to essentially a single player experience.
They should just merge the servers and have that PvP toggle option like they do in Retail.
The only issue is we don’t have PvP talents so most would probably keep it off, but at least you have the option.
