The point being, this should be expected, and it isnt a problem.
They wont be. Blizzard has said that when layering goes away, server online caps will be vanilla style. Ie, youll see massive queues on certain realms.
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And you believe them? How will that work on the highly populated servers of each region? Will they revert to having hour long queues by reducing the concurrent player cap by 4 times?
Why do you think blizzard has repeatedly called for people to move off high pop servers?
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Because they didn’t listen to feedback about layering and how it doesn’t belong in vanilla wow. They should have capped servers closer to blizzlike caps and made more servers.
It’s funny because blizzard/activision are in denial about how popular/successful classic wow was going to be/is. They broke the census addon because it was showing relatively accurate player numbers and that retail wow is currently being dwarfed by classic wow.
Cant swallow their pride and make a logical decision about how to manage classic wow launch and now we are left with this mess.
And then merge them when the tourists leave?
I feel you man. I dont like layering at all. My uncle quit classic before it even started over it. He was called a fearmonger. And he was right. He said people would exploit it for resources and pvp. He said blizzard couldnt be trusted to keep to their word. He was accurate about that. People told him it would only be in the game for 4 weeks tops per blizzard and to just suck it up. Well were past 4 weeks and layering is still here.
That said, server mergers arent thr answer.
I see this argument being regurgitated all the time but in reality it’s not true. Player activity remains strong and shows no signs of slowing down.
It’s also not a big deal to merge or allow free transfers off low populated servers, it was done during retail vanilla with no major issues. There is no justification for layering and it has caused far more problems than it was claimed to help address.
Flare activity does remain strong but if you honestly don’t think that players have quit playing classic already you’re off your rocker.
And merging is a big deal first of all it sends a bad message and second of all you’re forcing people to give up their names
I never said that no one has quit yet but that doesn’t mean the claim that “servers will die when the tourists leave” has any grounding in reality, what is there to back that claim up?
If anything the tourists are on retail wow; logging in for a few hours/week to raid log and then jumping back on the real MMO that is classic wow.
Actually Thorium nodes just need to be fixed because they are currently bugged and every single node in the game is giving 1 less tap than it should.
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I dunno. I spent an hour killing stuff on my typical mining route in Durotar and found 3 copper nodes.
Sounds Blizzlike to me. It means you aren’t the only person farming a zone/layer.
Used to be like that in EPL and you’d either catch up with the person who was synced up with the nodes or you were the one synced up but either way you could go long periods without seeing a single node if someone else was farming.
Now keep in mind it was like that with just one other person farming in a zone.
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I don’t mind the competition, but it’s gonna be hell once layering is removed.
Will spend my time getting as much gold as possible before BGs hit.
Thorium doesn’t need dynamic respawns. There are enough thorium veins in the world (layers included).
The avg folks are catching up in level. It is what it is.
Thorium is the only gathered material I see with prices actually above vendor cost thanks to scarcity
Doesn’t help that every small thorium vein only gives 1-2 taps
But it’s nice to see a stack of 10 going for like 6g now
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i actually concur with OP. I havent seen shxt for thorium all week.
This would be totally unfair to those who already have stacks and stacks of thorium ore collected legitimately by layer hopping!
You have a good point, in that since the servers hold many multiples of characters than the vanialla servers did, once layering is removed there’ll be a huge imbalance between population and nodes compared to vanilla.
Clearly it isn’t, as I just showed.
Yes. They will do what they have already done. Queue everyone once they hit 3k online and offer transfers to lower pop or new realms.
Not sure where you get your info but neither of those has ever been done by blizz. They only ever offered transfers from high pop to low pop, and never merged servers. Much later on they linked some servers, but still have not merged any.
The material spawning is fine and this is a perfectly Blizzlike experience. All I’m seeing here is the OP throwing a tantrum and insulting everyone who doesn’t agree with him.
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