Should we as a community have a planned stress test in a non-starting zone on beta/launch?

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@Ghan-tichondrius

I don’t think they’ve said anything about only sharding the starting zones have they? As far as I know, that’s just an invention of the forums. I would imagine it would be much easier to implement sharding across the board than only limit it to a few zones.

From this post: Guys calm down! (No Sharding thread) - #15 by Lore

I don’t know how to properly quote a CM but this is Lore, a CM on Classic some time ago around Blizzcon.

@Lore

However, realm sharding is one of the best tools we have to keep realms stable when hundreds of players are swarming the same initial few zones and killing the same few mobs (like they will be at the launch of Classic). To that end, we do believe that some form of sharding may be helpful, especially in those early days. But we recognize that a cohesive world is critical to WoW Classic and are committed to bringing that to you.

I don’t have the rest of the quotes about starting zones so I guess this quote doesn’t prove anything.

Although if what you say, that sharding is not limited to starting zones, then we have even more to worry about and this test needs to happen ESPECIALLY in a non-starting zone.

Edit: Ythisens was talking about it being exclusive to starting zones on the ClassicWoW Discord server but I can’t link the screenshot.