No layers please. Everyone understands what not having layers on a mega server means, and EVERYONE wants that. No one here believes you when you imply that due to player feed back your trying this, because literally no one in the community wants this. Do you think we don’t talk to each other? Stop listening to a couple of streamers, and assuming they speak for the community, they don’t.
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Just spend resource on updated servers and stop killing world pvp
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It’s like they balance the zone player numbers… not the players attending some silly mini event to secure the fairness in pvp combat.
I just dont see anything negative about this change. Prolly cause i play solo most of the time and have no interest in giant gank squads dominating each layer lol.
So no epic Southshore wpvp battles then? This is the entire point of my wpvp guild. This is terrible.
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As long as I don’t see other players disappear right before my very eyes as I try to fight them… that’s why I do not like war mode. War mode sucks bad.
Some of our best memories of OG Vanilla were the epic Southshore wpvp battles. Ruined. WHY EVEN BOTHER TO PLAY THIS STUPID GAME IF YOU MAKE IT UNPLAYABLE?
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Just keep the normal layer system. If this turns out to be anything even remotely close to war mode in retail, I’m not playing it.
Yeah this new layer/shard system whatever it is, is not good. People are disappearing left and right for no reason. In zones, cities, etc. We need to go back to the regular system.
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This layer change is absolutely atrocious. Players want to play a MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER GAME (an MMO) and layering will absolutely kill the game. It’s so frustrating to have fresh servers to play on and see so many people on day 1 then for Blizzard to immediately ruin it with some idiotic idea the next day.
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go back to the old system ASAP
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Wow… people vanishing from zone to zone. This is extremely lame.
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No large scale battles with this LAME system. Zone balancing? Give me a break. This sucks
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Please stop introducing NEW EXPANSION CONTENT into CLASSIC WoW. You are effectively ruining the game. There is a reason people want CLASSIC and not WAR WITHIN. YOUR NEW CONTENT IS BAD.
Seriously considering unsubscribing from a game that is supposed to be social. When i cannot play with my friends due to your experimental beta testing on a live game I am paying my hard earned money to play. If I knew it was going to be using systems from new expansions (I have never played and never will.) I would have not subscribed. Layer locking is ruining my experience with my friends. We cannot see each other and do things in the same zone together even though we are in a party together. We are on the same server in the same zone and CANNOT PLAY TOGETHER.
TLDR: STOP CHANGING CLASSIC. Remove layer locking/cooldowns. It ruins the experience
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layering helps with server load, but this new system is ruining the pvp experience. My friends and I were in Stonetalon doing some pvp, and layering kept throwing us into different layers randomly. One second we’re fighting Horde, the next we can’t even see each other because we’re on different layers.
So, we tried to fix it by leaving and rejoining groups to get on the same layer. That’s when we found out there’s a cooldown on layer hopping, and we got completely locked out of seeing each other. How is that fair? We were just trying to play together, but the system stopped us dead in our tracks.
Layering already makes the game feel less alive. We can’t even tell if Horde are nearby because they might be on another layer. Now with the cooldown, we can’t even regroup with friends if we get separated. It’s frustrating and completely kills the immersion and teamwork in pvp zones.
If you want this system to work, at least let players reliably group up with their friends. Or maybe rethink layering in pvp zones altogether—it’s supposed to feel dangerous and chaotic, not like we’re fighting in alternate dimensions.
Please listen to the players actually dealing with this. It’s not fun and it doesn’t feel like classic.
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I couldn’t do it after seeing they were going to do stuff like this. 95% of what made Vanilla and Classic 2019 great was the social parts of it, without that it’s a shell.
Yes, Retail sharding is bad and not Classic. Pretty much a lazy solution to be more hands-off with servers from the devs. Not being able to play with friends that you are actively grouped with makes it even worse than Retail sharding. Sad to see this happening to people but not surprised. If they can fix it so you can at least play with friends that’s awesome, but no high hopes.
RIP to a once wonderful game. 
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I don’t hate it
This new layer system is killing pvp zones. Making them so boring
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We need to revert back to the original system asap.
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Bravo to the devs for being able to miss every single time this game sees an update.
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