Was sharding removed for wPvP?

[Velurm-nightslayer]

It did have sharding. If you did wPvP raiding in the last couple of months, you would know what I’m talking about. It is this:

@GarnetHound-14887

With 1.15.5, PvP realms will attempt to balance faction at both the layer and the specific zone level. What this means is that if one faction exceeds our balance threshold, any additional players attempting to enter that same zone will instead transfer to another layer.

The system will work much like our Warmode system in The War Within, where we balance as many copies of the zone as possible and eventually any overflow of one dominant faction will end up on a one sided zone by themselves.

This system is effectively sharding. It has been incredibly frustrating to deal with. You could be on the same layer as the enemy, yet not see each other. Or you could be in a full 40 man raid, then immediately upon entering the zone half your raid randomly disappears. These hidden sublayers made it impossible to do PvP events.

But it seems to have been changed or removed entirely, because the normal problems I have come to expect when doing large scale wPvP didn’t happen this time. Call it faction balanced layers (there were hidden sublayers) or whatever, I’m just glad they fixed it.