Phase2 cannot release until server population is under control

[Reece-westfall]

In retrospect, releasing twice as many servers at the start and merging servers as time goes on would have been the better play.

People including myself were advocating this from the time they announced “phasing.” It’s a sad fact that when Blizzard comes up with some “creative solution” for a problem that they bring on themselves, things are going to go south. Whether that’s phasing or CRZ or layering. Blizzard and many players just have this wierd mentality that next to being eaten alive by Scorpions, merging servers is the most horrific thing imaginable.

None of the problems or exploits that were the result of layering needed to happen. Blizzard could have had a clear plan for releasing phase 2 instead of waiting for the population to sort itself out.

Imagine, just imagine, a company hoping a big portion of their customers leave.

[Aizensama-faerlina]

Blizzard has mentioned many, many times that layering will be removed before or right at Phase2.

There will be more players for Phase 2 then at launch. So my question is has Blizzard planned for that? The ball is in their court yet again to mess up like they did at launch or actually realize that Classic is the Future of WoW and to put some work in on it to be prepared for a few million more players for the next phases.

[Gajingoro-pagle]

It needs to release soon.

I dont care if there is gear better than some MC stuff in Dire Maul, the base vanilla loot tables are horrible and everyone is essentially rolling on the same gear for melee & hunter dps.

[Medaax-area-52 (Medaax)]

Phase 2 isn’t going to make people come back more than an actual content patch.

Honor gains through WPvP are negligible compared to BGs and there is no other actual content being added. DM will be “okay” for a few runs, but nothing to take up the time of what is most likely ANOTHER 3+ months before phase 3.

[Thalgor-sargeras (Thalgor)]

If that is the case there will be 30k queues on servers like Herod…

no way

[Holymirax-ashkandi]

But that was the deal, layering will be removed.

[Shadows-grobbulus]

Blizzard should just lock the full servers. There is no reason people should still be able to create new characters on full servers. Between that and the queues, players will take the hint and move to lower populated servers.

[Pelinal-goldrinn]

Removing layering isn’t going to Magically fix the atrocious player/server balance ratio, or the Company’s INCOMPETENCE in hearing a bunch of trolls who started this sheitshow in the 1st place.

For months people alerted about this only to be called retailtards by the Angry #nochanges mob, and look at the results…

[Kizaki-old-blanchy]

Blizzard has mentioned many, many times that layering will be removed before or right at Phase2. Apart from wanting it to be removed for the sake of a vanilla WoW experience, there are some key reason why layering does not work long term in Classic WoW. One of those reasons is world bosses and I believe this is the main reason why the goal is to remove layering by Phase 2.

Whether you participate in world bosses or not, the goal for Classic WoW is to recreate the game as close as possible which was why layering was implemented instead of phasing. However layering does not work like Phasing. The layer you are on is across the entire world, it is not isolated to a zone or city like phasing is. Meaning if layering was to stay in the game during Phase 2 and continue to work as it does there would be potential for duplicate world bosses. Or if they changed layering to not affect world bosses that would require a nightmare of layer hoping to search for and do world bosses.

Okay so big deal, they just remove layering. Well on some servers that might not be a big deal now, but on many that would still mean world bosses(and many other aspects of the game) would be near impossible. Especially Kazzak for example.

If Phase 2 is released similar to how it was in vanilla WoW we should expect Phase 2 by November/December. Do you feel the population will decline enough by then? And even if it does, how many people will come back for Phase 2 just like any other new content release in retail.

In retrospect, releasing twice as many servers at the start and merging servers as time goes on would have been the better play. But here we are. I feel Blizzard really needs address the overpopulation on all servers before discussion of Phase 2 release date can really be had.

If they truly wanted to recreate the Vanilla experience then Blizzard should have started from Patch 1.0, I would be more into putting an effort towards reaching Level 60 if the Unarmored mounts were in the game

[Faa-emerald-dream]

Well, we’re at Phase 2 now and the population imbalance is a nightmare. Horde Rogues are flooding the alliance cities and dungeon entrances. Just making it nearly impossible to play.