I usually quest on my alts with my main nearby, a common thing to do in classic WoW when open world pvp was prevalent. If I was being ganked, I could easily relog and actual fight them. Now, paired with the 20 second log in time, everytime, I get put into a different shard then my alt. This is frustrating since I assumed the whole realm was on the same shard? What is the point of having other characters if you cant use them in an open world setting? Im sorry for posting this in the Bug Section, because there is no other place for me to gripe about this. However, I do believe its a bug that I cant fight people that are supposedly on my shard. Maybe I just dont understand how Shards and open world pvp is supposed to work.
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There are multiple shards for the same realm, as well as realms sharing shards. I’m not sure how to word it better than that.
Once a zone hits a certain “cap” of players, it creates an additional shard, and may even shove existing people into a different shard to keep from overloading/lagging itself.