Petition to instead merge Malfurion into Whisperwind! Put Stormrage in there too!
The two have been in an almost eternal relationship guys, come on!
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Is Moonrunner affected by this? Don’t seem to see them in the list but we’ve been down for a while now.
They mistakenly left you off of the list. If you look, every other server that you are merged with is on here getting “connected” to an additional 2 servers.
Yeah I was wondering with Gnomeregan being affected. Sigh, these back to back merges are not fun.
No they are not. I have characters on Lothar and Grizzly Hills. This is our third time merging.
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Just make us one giant regional realm already. #ConnectAzeroth
Detailed Arguments Here: #ConnectAzeroth - The Final Realm Connection
I preferred my low population realm. Now we’re 7 realms connected and we’re high population. We’ll probably have login queues for Shadowlands. This was a big mistake. Why did you have to do this to us?
Andorhal’s server time was West Coast, when it was merged with Velen/Eonar, the server time was changed to East Coast.
Many of us were on the servers because of the server time, not wanting to have Raids taking place before we were even able to get home from work.
So now we’re right back to being on an East Coast timezone, which is not at all beneficial.
Maybe pick a west coast server? If you live on the west coast you should get better latency then as well. :), Andorhal was always in the East coast data centre, even if realm time used to be set to pacific.
The complaint is server time changed. Not server location, I think.
yeah but it happens because each cluster has to go off the timezone of the host server, there is only 5 pacific time zone servers in the Chicago data centre (namely Aerie Peak, Baelgun, Dark Iron, Kalecgos, Lightbringer) so the options are very limited and probably not practical, and thus blizzard will most likely connect those servers with other eastern servers.
In general (though not always) they seem to have moved east cost time realms to the pacific in the LA data centre and pacific time realms eastwards in the Chicago data centre.
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If we converted to region level realms and used managed populations via sharding and cross realm then time zone wouldn’t be an issue. We could just peg resets to regional time zones and as far as “peak” play time your peak would average out over a larger block.
That is to say all east coast players will generally play when all east coast players are on, PST to PST, and so on.
These divisions are arbitrary. If we can handle the processing of real time data via cross realm (which crosses multiple datacenters) we can surely connect the economies togather. Which is all connected realms are. They are the stitching of the economies of realms into a larger block. The Auction House stacking mechanism and community mechanism makes this totally doable to guilds and banks regionwide.
Arguing this in more detail in another thread: #ConnectAzeroth - The Final Realm Connection
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Please connect the brazillian realms! Or at least Azralon with Goldrinn please!
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@blizzard The Realm BronzeBeard/Shandris Has One Mythic raid team ONE. There is no one to buy or sell to. There is no one to recruit to our guild, Please Connect us to another EST time server before all of us are forced to realm change due to the server being a ghost town. Thank you for your time. Save our souls. We be calling out a S.O.S.
Just more reasons to do megaservers by region. #ConnectAzeroth
Detailed Arguments Here: #ConnectAzeroth - The Final Realm Connection
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Popping in for another note about Earthen Ring, hoping for realm connections. We were left out of the previous round and we miss having a fuller server! We would love more neighbors and meeting new friends.
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Just a reminder that those of us actually on Maelstrom don’t want any further merges.
Except for RP servers, Blizzard’s most successful servers are the highly unbalanced ones, like Sargeras, Illidan, and Area 52. Server balance on Normal servers may be a negative rather than a positive.
Just a reminder that those of us in guilds on Maelstrom that aren’t made up of 2 people and their alts want more merges.
We’ve wanted more merges for years and the two dead realms recently connected with us make nearly zero difference to the health of the cluster.
There was less than 400 people online last night at prime-time (8:00ish P.M.) across both factions. The server is dead, we need more merges.
EDIT:
Friday night, 7:27 P.M.
177 Alliance online.
251 Horde online.
428 total characters online.
25 of those characters are Druid bots inside of the Iron Docks. A few more are Druid bots in Gorgrond, waiting for their instance cap to reset or something. Less than 400 actual players online our FIVE server cluster at prime-time on a covid-19 Friday night.
Maelstrom is NOT fine, we need more merges.
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At least you’re posting on your Maelstrom character, now.
Realistically, though, if you want mythic raiding, you’re going to have to bite the bullet and transfer to Sargeras or to Horde. Might as well do it now.