Why can’t we see a list of connected realms in-game and have to resort to third party sites if we wanna find out about those?
Sunstrider’s got “etc.” 
You can see it’s not even a full list because some clusters got so many servers it’s just “etc. et al.”. It’s still annoying you need to check it out like this. wowwiki or gamepedia have more coherent lists so of course you can check it, but it should be visible in game.
It would be nice to be able to see the information in game somewhere or a more convenient way in general.
There is nothing in-game to show wich realms are connected to other realms because Blizzard wants players to believe the game has the exact same number of realms as it was back in WOTLK. While the truth is the real number of realms the game has is the number of connected realms groups, the invidual realms that are part of those connected groups does not exits anymore. But Blizzard do not want players to find that the number of realms of the game has been reduced to a half and probably it will be reduced more with the upcoming connections. The grand majority of players that does not read the forums still believe the realm list they see on login is real. Giving in-game information about connected realms will break that illusion.
I can recommend the tooltip Realm info addon, it will show you the connected servers of whomever you mouse over/have tooltip set to as well as give you that information in the communities tab and guild browser:
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/tooltiprealminfo
The only thing is the realm library file is a bit outdated (its from before blizzard started their latest round of server connections), I use the add-on and have manually been updating it as blizzard is connecting servers, but that could be an option.
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The API actually supports asking the game for connected realms - i have not actually tested those calls if they are up to date, but they exist. So in theory, you should not even have to build an external DB of connections yourself to display in an addon.
I agree 100% that connected realms should be shown as connected directly in the realm-selection-list, though.
It’s one of these things that definetly SHOULD be there…but are not. Like a LOT of features.
I think part of the reason is that Activision mostly cares for players on the large US realms - and those are not connected. So it’s not something they actually pay a lot of attention to.
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I would argue that this addon is mandatory in the days of de-facto-forced pugging as an EU player.
I like to know what language somebody speaks when getting into my group. If we are an all-german team, i will speak german. As soon as somebody from a non-german realm is present, i switch to english.
I would ASSUME this is how Activision wants us players to behave, too - but they do not even bother showing us realm-languages.
Pathetic.
it asks but really all it does is check if the other player has the connected realm id as you or not… any list is manually compiled by players for use in their addons etc… Raider.io does keep a list here however that you can use:
It doesn’t give you sever ID’s however, I keep that data in other spreadsheets so I can update the realm library Lua file when needed, (there are also a few ingame commands you can use to extract the server ID’s yourself)
To some extent sure it gives you a good idea, but just saying the server you play on doesn’t always correspond with the languages that you can speak, I speak German pretty fluently as well and even have my wow client set to German, yet play on Argent Dawn just because thats where I have found my home community in wow.
Sure, i have invite-characters on large EN realms to get into LFR and such, since the game does not support Qing for LFRs of languages different from your home-realm…which pretty much means those older LFRs are not available to you if you are not based on an EN realm. I would argue that’s another feature the game SHOULD offer: Getting into the EN Q for older content.
But still: The only thing you can and SHOULD assume about a stranger is that s/he can communicate in the language his realm is based in. I think that is fair. But then the UI should at least show me what this language is. And it does not. It simply does not. Which is pathetic.
haha, its only the EU region that splits the LFR ques into 4 but then again US is 85% English speaking realms (only 7 non English servers exist there) and EU has many more languages than that.
It’s way way, worse on Asian servers though, the TW region for example only has 8 servers, only 2 have any sort of population (Shadowmoon for alliance, Sundown marsh for horde, the other 6 are literal Ghost towns), suffice to say its nearly impossible to get into any LFR that isn’t current tier (Nya’lotha) there, and even battleground ques are pretty bad with RBG’s and Epic battlegrounds being nearly impossible to start in the region. Korea has more players but half the region’s players also reside on 1 server (Namely azshara Horde), with its second biggest server (Hyjal alliance) being about 1/3 the size, the other 7 servers there are dead as well though.
The problem with TW is that that region is a single country region and so once the population decrease there is nothing that Blizzard can do to help them unless Blizzard allow cross-region play, and probably Blizzard never will do that. Spanish, Portguess and Itallian servers are similar or even lower to those number of TW and Korea but fortunately for us here in Europe individual countries are not isolated and players from those 3 languages can play in LFR and BG with English players.
they would have to merge regions… they technically are in the same region as Korean servers (same dailies/resets/lockouts… etc, even bnet lounges are shared between those 2 regions) but they are basically separated by how restrictive Korea is with making accounts that you cant have physically have a Korean and Taiwanese wow account on the same battle.net.
Otherwise your right only thing that can save them is cross region play (or a merger of regions), either of which would require a significant overhaul of the backend systems wow is built on.
Right now as it stands if your bnet is set to South Korea you can only make Korean accounts (it will prevent you from making a Taiwanese wow account), if your battle.net country is set to anything else it will only allow you to make an account on Taiwanese servers… As far as battle.net is concerned both regions are located in the “Asia” region which Blizzard defines as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, Japan and South Korea, ofc the former 4 countries/territories default to TW, with South Korea defaulting to KR.
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