This is WORLD of warcraft not MULTIVERSE of warcraft

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@Kurwen-stonemaul

Layering is continent based

That isn’t how Ion explained it. He says layering is a single cohesive world.

@Kurwen-stonemaul

Layering will increase the chance they have competition due to a larger player pool meaning more chance of more tryhards per server.

Except it decreases competition. Remember the whole point behind layering is to make room for tourists that aren’t expected to play long term. Most tourists will not be reaching far enough to compete with Classic players farming high level resources.

@Celessi-turalyon

No, it actually doesn’t. To create multiple servers worth of materials, EVERY SINGLE HERB has to be farmed on every single layer 24/7. Otherwise, it’s 100% identical to someone just farming it on only a single layer.

Uhm what?!?! That isn’t how it works. Every single herb is not going to be farmed even on a regular server 24/7. If Bob and Jim are farming herbs in Felwood they are competing with one another and are limited to farming only what can spawn in the zone. If Bob and Jim are farming Felwood but on separate layers, they are potentially doubling the number of resources they can farm since they aren’t competing with one another. Sure, there will be times when Felwood isn’t being farmed on a layer, but there will be times when it isn’t being farmed at all. The point is that when it is being farmed, multiple layers has an impact.

@Slientknight-blackrock

Also, this is a false dichotomy, as there are more options than the two that you presented

Haven’t heard any other options.

@Slientknight-blackrock

All that this would do is add to the competition in the auction house after merger, by adding more resources and making it cheaper, rather than before the merger, like what is currently being proposed right now by blizz (with layering), the resources are going to be immediately available at the AH, rather then after the merger. So instead of having a scarcity of resources, per AH, like it was in Vanilla, the scarcity will be reduced by a magnitude of the amount of layers that are on the server. This is because they are sharing an AH for basically 5 servers worth of resources if there are 5 layers.

You are missing the point. Layering is able to be removed far more quickly than the server merge ideas that have been thrown out. The problem isn’t the AH on the server pre merge(although it would also be a problem), the problem is that once you merge several dead servers that have been free farmed, you are merging players that have stockpiled massive amounts of resources.