Why are the EU servers in such a garbage state compared to the NA servers? You don’t see anyone on the NA forums complaining that Tichondrius or something is experiencing 30-40 seconds input lag serverside.
Are the EU servers literally that much worse? Are EU players second class citizens in wow?
Yes. 10char
I don’t know anything about servers but surely there must be something they can do other than give a free server transfer, the only suitable realms I can find on the list are realms where all my names are taken and I find it hard to think of new ones that I actually like
yes, they are
Realms active characters
Alliance 1 391
Horde 7 729
Overall 9 120
Realms active characters
Alliance 5 141
Horde 181 638
Overall 186 779
i don’t know what servers are big on NA, i just used a name of a server that was popular, Tich was ‘‘the big server’’ a few expacs ago and it still is in my mind
regardless point still stands EU is unplayable if more than a handful of people try to play at a time but NA seems to work fine most of the time
Realms active characters
Alliance 10 332
Horde 83 347
Overall 93 679
Yeah it’s like half the people on Draenor the servers are the same EU ones are just more overpopulated.
I believe their incentive is they have different server locations based on time zones so people pick closer realms for less lag. In the end population is more evenly distributed.
The whole of NA was offline for half the day yesterday, I think we were pretty lucky with just some overpopulated realms being laggy
Eu has more players easy answer
I think it’s because the US servers have a much better player distribution while the EU servers have a few megalopolis servers where everyone flocks to.
in league we have a joke even confirmed by rito to be true
eu > na
US servers were down for over 12 hours Tuesday. I’ll take 3 hours of lag over that any day lol.
Yeah, and they have gotten more server-fixes and population fixes, with more realm merges, etc than the EU has.
In August more merges were promised. but it didn’t happen.
Now I’m on a realm with 2k active players registered on WowProgress, meanwhile we’re sharded together with Draenor and share the lagg.
So we have the worst-of-the-worst of both worlds.
It’s absurd Blizzard isn’t just merging more low-pop servers and actually fix the lag, and cut the sharding.
Why does Draenor even need sharing? It should be big enough for itself in new expansion content… I can’t even turn on Warmode, despite i’m on a server with practically no Horde, because I’m outnumbered 5 to 1 at least, as Draenor Horde is sharded.
Like, how is that even fair??? We all pay the same price for subscription. I’ve already moved 9+ chars and a guild once, from a former high server, that turned dead. To my current server - which was very high during WoD with queues even, to now low.
In a single expansion almost, my server (and many others) went from medium/high to low, as people quit the game en-masse during WoD.
All the issues during WoD, have not been fixed. Not server lagg, not population issues between servers.
The engineers have showed they are able to successfully fix a lot of these sharding/population issues by connecting more realms together - why they stopped after the work was half-done, is a mystery to me.
I’m happy it seems so many players have come back to Wow, but it looks to me, they’ve all gone to high/full servers, where all the Streamers/Youtubers are…
I recently bought Shadowlands Epic edition.
So far I have not experienced any issues while world questing.
I play on Stormscale EU.
Current ping: 80-83
Currently level 17. I have a way to go xD.
Stormscale is perfectly fine, the realms people are complaining about are the ‘‘full’’ flagged realms, stormscale isnt near yet
I mean yeah…
EU - Multiple Countries.
US - Few countries.
It’s just that simple really.
I see.
Hopefully, the issues will be resolved soon 
But looking at the geographical area… America is HUGE, and it’s not like we’ve had the similar issues in previous expansion so far into it. Esp not with whole zones broken, like Ardenweild is now.
Servers are working fine now, there are just too much people logging on at the same time since everyone starts raiding at 8 