Realm Connections -- September 17-18

Skoomacat where did you get figures of 33K on Aman’Thul and 67k on Dath/Khaz?

Seems like you’ve moved Blackrock off the west coast. Not sure why? Was on this server because it was a good middle ground for NZ and EU. Kinda screws the NZ side to this…

I would love for kirin tor and argent dawn to be connected, I have friends on AD hehe oh and connect us with emerald dream too. :smiley:

Yup.

Can’t link, saw you did after.

It still is a west coast server, A servers local realm time isn’t actually representative of a servers locale, you got west coast servers like Firetree that are on Eastern time and east coast servers like Aerie Peak that are on Pacific time. Generally though the time difference and ping to west coast servers isn’t great from the EU. and Kiwis are also probably better off playing on OCE servers.

Can confirm, EU to west coast ping sucks hard. Just as bad as EU to OCE. lol The time difference is also trash. It’s why I had to give up and just play OCE. At least I’m awake to raid at 11 am.

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My Experience (located in Denmark):

  • EU server are 15-35ms depending on data centre
  • US East Coast servers run at 110ms
  • US West Coast servers are at 140ms
  • Korean/Taiwanese servers are like 295-310ms
  • OCE servers run at 330ms

Obviously for raid times Asian/Oceanic servers that raid at lunch time are much better than US servers where the average raid time is 3-4am.

It was more the fact that the ping was consistently higher like I was on a more central server. Funny enough soon as I posted this it’s gone back to what it normally was. Maybe it was just a string of bad ping. Will see I guess.

I’m in Sweden and was getting closer to 200 to west coast servers.

I get about 300 to OCE, but at that spot it’s almost impossible to tell the difference to me. I have to adjust my movement and the like regardless lol.

I won’t roll EU. I can’t give up 15 years of stuff on this one. I’d be dropping a few hundred just to get back what I have.

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I feel you Im from Western Canada but also moved across the pond, giving up what you worked on really hurts, I understand the different licensing between the regions but it would really go a long way if blizzard somehow made Collectables Bnet account wide rather than just region specific, since they are already bnet wide across multiple licenses in the same region. Can only hope and pray that one day I will get my Spectral tiger, Feldrake and even common but unobtainable mounts like the AOTC moose on EU someday.

As it stands right now my US and EU accounts have a totally different set of collectables which makes the situation even more complicated.

I have a particular store mount I’d have to buy again. I’d need gold. Some of the achievements I’ve got I can’t solo, or can’t get anymore. It’s slightly infuriating.

What’s even worse, is I get charged in Euros for store mounts. Charge me in USD for crying out loud.

Getting a bit off topic so I won’t say more after this but I wanted to say that you can buy the mounts directly from the web shop in USD, you can even check the asian web shops and sometimes its cheaper with the exchange rate but prices generally run the same. Unfortunately this workaround works only for like mounts/pets/toys and character services have to be in-game… I agree its incredibly frustrating to be forced to pay for everything in Euro’s when its not even your local currency and the credit card I pay with is Canadian.

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All I know is that the Aman’Thul connection is in the middle of my no play evening/night and will be glorious. Bring it.

They need to stop these connections. I prefer my backwater of a realm, and I shouldn’t be forced away from the server I’ve played on for 13 years simply because they want to make my realm have more people in it. They already have CRZ, and now they’re bringing 5 High population servers to my already server cluster. I dont want to play this game with Qeues just to log in again, I dont want to fight hundreds of people for the same questing items/kills. Let us be. IF people TRULY want to be on a high pop server they have the option to do so. Don’t make all of us go.

Plz dont forget to merge the brazilian servers!
AH is dead, really need more players around!

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Part of it is competition. You can complete quests and crafting quicker on empty realms. Having more players means more competition for quest mobs and ore and herbs (wait, wait, wait for respawns). Stretches out content and sub time depending on what you do in-game. Plus for Blizz’s bank, minus for the average player’s efficiency.

But WoW is an mmo. Having others around as friend or foe should be a big part of the player experience.

I would fully support this, brings AD/Scryers together with KT/SwC/Sent. into a big 5 server group.

Yet again, just like the last time Blizz did realm connections, they focus on a few groups for too long and other realms begin to die out. If you are on one of those realms that isn’t being listed week after week, you either start to wonder if you should just transfer, or wait it out and hope Blizz gets to you before the expansion launches.

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I’m with you bro

Having more people on your server cluster doesn’t increase population in the world any more than CRZ did though.

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