27 sets of connected realms that haven’t been touched since 2013/2014. Can’t speak to their true populations, but that’s concerning for many of us when we’re just over a month away from launch.
edit: Honestly though, give the rest of us connections and turn off CRZ so everything that’s broken can stop being broken.
I don’t know how many times I need to say this. Going halfway clearly isn’t solving the underlying problem. We need to connect all realms (in a region) #ConnectAzeroth
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No lol I have never even heard of those realms.
Here here. Earthing Ring is the only RP realm that hasn’t been connected yet. Will we forever huzzah into the empty void? I’ll even send Bricklethumbs kids to mow your lawn too.
I’m completely uninterested in a megaserver. What they’re doing is fine by me, but they need to disable CRZ once they bring the rest of us in line with everyone else.
They will NEVER disable CRZ. CRZ and Sharding are the key tools that keep the server stable for under/over populated areas. Lightbringer IS High Population. I almost NEVER see people from my own realm in the game world. It is always an assortment of people from an assortment of other realms.
That’s why I am arguing for RegionRealms. If they are going to encourage me to play with people in other realms they might as well make it so that I can get in a guild with them and build long lasting friend groups. (Communities don’t cut it I explain my reasoning here: #ConnectAzeroth - The Final Realm Connection)
Please, #mergeEarthenRing or #moveEarthenRing. Whichever you prefer. It’s going to be very difficult to maintain a raid or hold RP events. Other servers do literally everything better. Alliance RP? Moon Guard. Horde? WrA. Both of those also have healthier PvE and PvP scenes as well. We have guilds capable of getting CE but haven’t been able to because we couldn’t keep a consistent roster. Do you know how HORRIBLE that feels? I have personally been trying like hell to get people to trial and transfer here, but realm pop comes up as an issue for potential recruits all the time and we’ve been turned down because of it even though we were otherwise a perfect fit. If you won’t merge us, please at least let us know why. This has been one of the biggest frustrations I’ve had to deal with in this game. If you know a way to invite a man onto a sinking ship and get him to stay there, I wanna know that secret. A lot of our core people have moved on due to population problems, and more are threatening to. This can be fixed. Legion didn’t fix our pop issues, BfA and WoD made them even worse, and MoP was when we first noticed the problem. BfA was even SO BAD that a /who both WM on and off of Boralus has sometimes showed that it had not even a single person from our server in it. Seriously - nothing the game has done on its own has fixed our pop issues since they’ve occurred. So please, throw us a bone here. We always see a few people come back at expansion launch, but then they leave again and take more people with them. It’s extremely hard to recruit good quality people without being CE, and its extremely hard to get CE when you have no people.
You can unconnect Burning Blade, it didn’t need realm connections, thanks
Sharding is fine. CRZ is completely and utterly broken but they refuse to acknowledge it. Still uninterested in a megaserver.
How is it broken in your view? I think it is broken too but at the same time what I think is broken about it can’t be fixed as the proverbial toothpaste will not go back in the tube.
And I had never heard of your realm until I started looking at connection stuff.
So you don’t want to double the number of players on your server?
As a guild master of Nation of Dragons - I agree… we need some love. We need serious mythic raiders and players wanting to push high level keys. I have people on standby in my guild wanting more people… please connect us to something else.
For weeks I have been reading these posts in hopes of seeing my realm in the list and every week I think next week will be the one. This sounds like the final connections and again Earthen Ring is nowhere to be found. I honestly felt like we should have been connected a few years ago on the last round and there are less people around now than there was then. Please reconsider and help us out with our shrinking world. #ConnectEarthenRing
Darkspear needs at least 1 merge with an alliance pop realm. Its horde everywhere and not at all how it used to be.
Hyjal alliance still waiting . . .
Is Draenor/Echo Isles on the list? 
Hopefully next week maybe, to a Horde dominated server, I’m sure there is server starving for Alliance folks.
OMG still no kirin tor? Come on blizz, lots of dead servers are still waiting and this is something that HAS to be done before SL launches. Makes filling raid spots easier. Right now on kirin tor, it’s impossible to find anymore raiders because of how dead it is.
Merge Rexxar/Misha or allow free transfers off the dead realms.
I second that. Or, well, the part about the Bladefist group. I’m indifferent to which group we’re connected to, though looking at it, the Ravencrest/Uldaman group seem decent. I’m in favor of an even bigger connection than just that though.
All I know is, recruitment for raiding has been borderline impossible with our population.
I absolutely agree!