Give us an option to see all our chars on connected realms on one page please this is super annoying, now I have char on a bunch of different realms but they are connected…
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You guys should really let people know that their servers are looking at to be linked to others. You have some poor bastards out there waiting with bated breath hoping. It almost seems like you are hoping to squeeze out a few more server transfers out of people before you dangle hope in front of them.
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If you are doing these connections to help the playerbase then why are you connecting central and eastern time servers with Pacific time servers?
I got excited when I saw my server on the list as my play time is late night PST, then my heart sank as i realized that realms like Firetree will already be in bed when I get off work.
You should have kept the TZ the same.
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they are only connecting east coast located servers with east coast servers and west coast servers with west coast ones…
Garona-Malygos is the only east coast server in this list, the other 4 connections are between west coast servers.
Garrosh & Firetree are wierd ones because they are on Eastern realm time, but the server itself is actually located in Los Angeles, regardless realm time doesn’t matter, they will just match the realm time to the server there connecting it to.
They dont actually take realm time as a consideration when connecting servers though you would be limiting your options too much, rather where the server is physically located.
that means all things considered:
for western servers
- Firetree/Frostwolf will be EST post merger (there is one instance where in the old set they merged a PST/EST server on a virtual server and gave it central time… forget which one that was off the top of my head but I can look it up, that is also a possibility though)
- Sen’jin/Bloodscalp should be Central time post connection
- Azjol-Nerub/Blackhand will stay mountain time
- Aegwynn/Garrosh will stay central time
For east coast servers, Malygos/Garona will ofc stay central time.
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I wonder if they are going to be offering free realm transfers once this is done for say the Vashj/Frostwolf players who play there because of time zone and who don’t want to join Firetrees time zone.
I’m not too sure what time zone Lost Angelous is in, but I’m pretty sure Firetree is central or eastern time zone…
This is like a disappointing Christmas…
Almost feels like the year I asked for a Walkman and got a Walkman like FM radio instead. Lololol.
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why would they? The server itself doesn’t move… and realm time is just a random statistic with no baring on the locale of the server. if you want an east coast server for the better ping, maybe pick an east coast server to play on, but Frostwolf/vashj were always Los Angeles based servers and that won’t change with the realm connections, even if gametime updates to eastern timezone.
There are east coast based servers with PST as their realm time too (Aerie Peak for example), how blizzard assigns timezones to servers is beyond me but most game events are synced regionwide to the pacific time calendar so realm time doesn’t matter for much.
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Looking at the balance and population of the Kirin Tor, Sentinels and Steamwheedle Cartel cluster, it seems like it would be a perfect match for the Lightninghoof, Maelstrom, The Venture Co, Ravenholdt, Twisting Nether cluster.
The Steamwheedle cluster is slightly Alliance heavy and the Maelstrom cluster is slightly Horde heavy. Both clusters are central time and they’re all RP realms and all those realms are located in the Chicago data center.
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My issue is finding a guild to raid with. My play time is late night PST. I am often off at 9pm PST.
I was hoping this merger would bring more PST servers together so I could raid again, but rather they are making it harder for me to raid.
They really should consider time zones before merging.
like I said, Both of those servers were always west coast based servers, most east coast people are more likely to pick an east coast server regardless of what the server has for realm time.
even on Proudmoore, I can guarantee you that it isn’t exclusively a PST only server and, I wouldn’t expect Firetree to be fully east coast either (though naturally more people live on the east coast which will somewhat skew statistics).
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I don’t understand what you mean by west coast based? I can make a character there and check, but I am 99% sure it’s not gonna have the same server time as the western server I am playing on currently as when I google it’s time zone it claims it’s eastern time.
the server is physically located in Los Angeles rather than Chicago, when you have CRZ on that server you will only see people from other west coast servers.
Realm time is meaningless, blizzard assigns it seemingly randomly and it has no bearing on anything game related (other than maybe for guild calendar events)… Other regions have the time standardized region-wide, no clue why US servers don’t but even Russian servers run off Paris time even though no Russian lives in that timezone.
I assumed that all the servers were run from Blizzard’s phsyical office, which I assumed was in California as that is where Blizzcon is held.
How does one go about finding groups of players who play in a specific time zone?
When you live in one of the last time zones and work late time zones actually do matter if you want to do things such as raid.
in the Americas & Oceania Region, wow servers are hosted in 3 Locations: Sydney, Australia (Oceanic), Los Angeles (west Coast US), & Chicago (East Coast US, Latin America, & Brazil servers).
If your on the east coast you will probably get the best performance from a Chicago based server, if your on the west coast, A Los Angeles server probably offers the best performance, thats how I would pick anyway, they will never merge a Los Angeles server with a Chicago server, though both data centres have servers assigned all sorts of timezones.
Cenarius merging with Cairne and Perenolde changed the time zone from Mountain to Pacific.
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indeed, because perenolde was copied onto Cenarius, it gained Cenarius’s realm time 
I play with the Aussies because the raid times line up better for me.
Might be an option?
Those 3 might be ok for me. I live on MDT/PST timeline so for half the year I have that time zone.
Looks like once this is said and done Blizzard is gonna get close to a grand CAD out of me to fix the mess they are about to make…
You think they’d take the single server and copy it instead of the other way around. Lol.
I mean you can check it, scanning any toon from the Cenarius/Perenolde/Cairne server will give you the realm ID “1168” which was the virtual realm ID of Cenarius before the connection happened.
Looks like once this is said and done Blizzard is gonna get close to a grand CAD out of me to fix the mess they are about to make…
your placing too much weight on realm time, it won’t make the situation any worse than it is now, it can only get better… no one from your current server is getting kicked off because of the merger, you will only have more new faces on the server regardless what time zone you are in
Don’t need to check it that way, my old guild leader confirmed her realm time changed. I used to play on Cairne.
Fun bit, after the merger my druid showed up in guild roster and chat as Gozreh-cairne, which she hasn’t been since 2018.