It allows a realm to create several instances of itself to balance its own population, instead of balancing players around shards from multiple realms.
Unlike sharding, players won’t be able to leave the layer to find a better one when moving to different zones. Currently, the only way to change to a different layer is to join a group, which pulls all the players from the group into the same layer.
Google Gamepedia Layering Classic WoW.
Go be a whining fan boy someplace else.
oh ok i see now thanks
I agree with you.
However, Blizzard was fully aware that this was going to be an issue. They had no way around it for the launch. They will remain silent and remove layering in phase 2, as planned. We all need to adjust.
Private servers. People played them for years. That’s what I was referring to.
i never did play on a private server and im glad im re experiencing vanilla for the first time and its great.
What Asmongold needs or wants. He gets. How hard is that to understand? Who cares if he abuses layering. He is a god among men. Just let it go. You dont have to play on his server.
Your 1st problem was watching that leaching creepy creeps stream.
nor would they want to ban someone who brings in alot of views/free advertisement for their game
I mean, as a hunter you get the most benefit out of it. You have tracking to compliment it and flare to knock people out of stealth.
And sadly, nothing will happen to him, just like nothing happened to Joker and Apes.
Let´s face it, we are second type of customers here, we don´t matter so we can just go play somewhere else.
Ill say it again jumping layers isn’t abuse. It is clever use of game mechanics. Blizzard set this standard when they didn’t take world first 60 from jokerd.
You guys can keep complaining all day and all night about layering but you either have to deal with people switching layers to get a hard to get resource (which they can’t do as often anymore) or not be able to quest ever because the layers were removed and everyone and their mother is fighting over a spawn who’s drop rate is 1/10 for an item you need 15 of. Which one sounds more ideal to you?
Video title is “ALMOST 60–DOING UBRS–FARMING PRERAID BIS–MOTEL CORE THIS WEEKEND”
Go to 9:36:24 “Flames of the black dragonflight 3 hr CD.” That’s where they kill the one that has the CD, then they ask for a layer swap.
It was the seal of Ascension quest.
I mean it’s his own stream that is publicly available, and I’m not calling him out. I find his stream entertaining. What he did is not against TOS. That’s the problem. Layering is there and it’s not against TOS to layer swap on demand for whatever purpose you want, including farming rares or avoiding a cooldown like this.
The equivalent action in vanilla would have been free, on-demand, instant and repeatable server hopping.
back when wow first started there wasn’t layering because back then you couldn’t do Virtual Servers all that well, so blizzard back then just called all the servers Realms, so it was one blade server per realm. then at some point (i can’t remember when) blizzard migrated everything to virtual servers , this migration meant that instead of just one server managing a realm you could have say 10 servers for a realm instead of just one, so as the population of a realm could grow to 10 times the size of what it could be back then, so they started to merged the Realms. layering in classic is in place to handle the high population without needing to open a ton of realms because blizzard was expecting 2/3 of the users would stop playing classic after a month. so there is plan to disable it, they just can’t do it with such high volume of players.
Why not just ban cheaters who do it on streams for everyone to see? Problem solved.
Wow stealthed players, thats a bit much.
It’s a bit ridiculous to expect Asmongold to be banned for using layering.
Is it actually going to solve the problem that one prominent WoW figure is banned? No, of course not. People are still going to swap layers; people are still going to bypass the 3 hour cooldown.
The real solution is to remove layering or severely limit layer swapping.
We all agree.
No one is saying to ban anyone for using layer swapping. We’re making the case that blizzard should eliminate layering NOW not in Phase 2.
Seriously?