You asked for strong opinions from Oceanic, we rallied. Shadowstrike came together across guild and realm Discords and discussed at length, and there was a clear sense of disappointment with the proposed merge to US.
Twitter feedback on your reply:
Forums:
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This merge comes with more down-sides for Oceanic than US/EU and that should be given consideration:
- Ping: We chose Oceanic servers for best performance
- Differing peak hours
- Unable to provide informed feedback until the past 24 hours because we did not know if we were included
- Wild Growth/Crusader Strike have an advantage over character names as destination server.
Many players have expressed they would rather quit than deal, even with the larger available player pool.
Findings from Feedback
- The most agreed on idea is that Oceanic players have the ability to seed an instance ID with Oceanic latency. This is a compromise for our high-end raiding community
- Sharding between Shadowstrike and Crusader Strike and Sharding between Penance and Wild Growth
- An Oceanic layer existing on the US mega-server
- Merging Penance and Shadowstrike into an Oceanic mega-server
Please let us know if any of the above are options