What would be great is a complete list of which realms are going to be connected to which realms not just what is going to happen this week.
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Just to clarify my question about the realms. I was referring to the website for battlenet, that has the listing of the realms. There is a section that shows you what realms you are on.
In the part where it shows ‘your realms’, it lists only 6 realms, and those are where I have a few characters each. However, it does not list in that section the realms I have the most characters in, which is a connected realm.
Please please connect all of the Brazilian realms together. Goldrinn, Nemesis, Tol Barad, Gallywix, Azralon (did I miss some?).
The imbalance is nearly absurd on some of it. Azralon is pretty much 90% Horde, and the other realms are dying slowly with, among other things, an awful economy due to the low population, especially on the Alliance side.
Please, Blizzard, I never asked you anything.
Pretty sure auction houses are linked do it’s not just alliance or horde anymore. They got rid of the neutral AH when they did it.
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And people said I was wrong when I said that weeks ago in the main thread, lol.
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Okay, if Drakthul is suppose to be freakin’ low pop I would like to know why I can’t get away from people?
I was questing in Ashenvale today and four times I had to stop my game because others were doing the same quests and there were not enough resources for everyone.
Two days ago, I was questing in Darkshore and the guild requests interrupted an escort quest, a quest boss fight and me receiving an achievement I was finally completing from seven years ago.
The Argent Tournament grounds are going from ten on, I have never entered Karaz without other players around and in seven months of playing I have seen Stormwind quiet once.
And those darn dinos and mammoths are everywhere!
And those are just the examples off the top of my head!
What the heck is a high pop server like? How do you even play the game?
At 10:30pm server time on Drak’thul and Skywall realms, there are 193 alliance characters and 153 horde between the levels of 20-120. The population is so small you can count them up with /who commands. One of the usual discrepancies of “Hunter” calling up both demon hunters and hunters doesn’t matter cause there aren’t more than 50 of both combined on either faction.
“The Drak’thul and Skywall realms will join the Silvermoon and Mok’Nathal realms.”
Kaviax fixed it after Xellandria made that post.
Rather than looking at things like population since we don’t have an accurate way to tracking it compared to what blizzard sees, I look at raiding on raider IO. Perenolde/Cairne has less than 10 guilds that have completed heroic, and 3 guilds with any mythic experience, the leader being 5/12. If that does not scream dead, not sure what else does. Cenarius isn’t much better off. Connecting these realms will not suddenly create an raiding golden age on Cenarius where we suddenly have mythic guilds form and go 12/12. It will be a boost to vitality, but only for a while. People will still leave for servers with more high end content.
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ISTM you’re assuming there’s a ton of sellers and few to no buyers. But in that situation it’s always going to suck to be a seller.
If there are just as many buyers as sellers, then it’s equally likely that within 30 seconds your stuff has already sold.
Connection means you’re connected to more buyers too.
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It is because of cross realm zones (crz). When your out in the world and you pass by another player. That person is not necessarily from your realm, or connected realm.
When no one (on any server) is in a given zone, Bliz doesn’t waste the computer resources to have that zone created, no npc spawned etc… So when someone goes to that zone they create a version of it. When a 2nd person goes to that zone, they crz them into the same version of that zone. They keep doing this until the zone gets to a number of players that Bliz feels is appropriate, then they spawn a 2nd version of the zone to put the overflow in so it doesn’t get too crowded.
Next time your out and about and feeling like it’s crowded. Look at the people’s names in the tooltip. It will say “Name & Title - Server”. If they aren’t from Drak’thul or connected Skywall then you have been brought there via CRZ.
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So is the maintenance for just those realms or are you taking all realms down?
Probs all.
Either way, I gotta get my server hop alts sorted out before this goes live.
For me there is a latency difference of maybe 80-100ms between the 2, but it really depends where your located. If your in Hawaii for example there is going to be a pretty big difference between a LA based server and a Chicago one.
Server timezone if anything is a useless metric, since as you mentioned it has no baring on were the server is actually located and affects nothing other than the ingame calendar, since all other events run of a Region-wide calendar that is based off of the pacific time zone.
it should also be mentioned that no other wow region has different time zones within the same region, even all the Russian servers are set to Paris time. The only Russians on the same timezone as the server are those who live in Kaliningrad and only during the summer months. Moscow time (The timezone for most Russian players) is 2 hours ahead of this and its even a bigger difference for eastern players. I think it would be easier if they just moved US servers to whatever timezone the data centre is located in like classic (LA servers to PST and Chicago servers to EST), or just make the whole region run off PST like it essentially already does.
I hope Exodar is linked. I have many alts there and its hard to sell things on the auction house.
Depends on how you define rare, I just see them as mobs with better than normal loot “rare quality”. Also, even if you define rare is “they aren’t always available” how do you further define rare? Quest mobs aren’t rare because they’ll always be up unless someone just killed them, how much time does it take for them to respawn after death? Say 5 minutes. Will a rare therefore be a mob that respawns 10 minutes after death? What about 20? Or 30? At what point does rare = rare by the definition of availability?
The questions to ask are “what’s low population” and “how do we define substantial” 
If a realm has 10 players on it and they connect it to a realm with 20 players I’d say that’s substantial, it was connected to a realm twice as large after all 
Surely (hopefully) Blizz doesn’t follow that same reasoning so we just have to wonder, what’s substantial.
you need to join Argent Dawn-US to something. ANd Moon Guard to everything. Everyone from Drak Thul to Argent Dawn to Proudmoure, they go the Goldshire and see us proud Moon Guardians.
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every time i login Whisperwind always shows as high pop lol
it can’t be all bots and multi-boxers, can it? can it!? 
It was one of the original 40 servers so i would hate to see the name change.