Update on realms going to be connected on Thursday:
Those are the English connections.
@Esploratore: Keeping in mind the approach of Shadowlands launch and the limited public data, I would say Draenor and Silvermoon will stay single⊠Kazzak and Twisting Nether probably as well⊠Below those four⊠remains to be seen. As I noted in my reply to Gnomeofdeath, Blizzard may have elected a tactic that was outside my initial predictions. However, I can not tell yet for sure, because some of their decisions have been straight from my predictions lists and certain bits of data simply are not available anywhere outside Blizzard. I have already revised some parts of my lists, but they need more work before I do a âreprintâ. :D:D:D
Additionally, keeping in mind what happened during (or perhaps better said (soon) after) program 1, we have to ask ourselves (as we will not get an official answer to this and there might even not be one yet even within Blizzard) whether the current program 2 is still feasible after Shadowlands patches have been applied to live realms. In other words, how much must be done in advance and what is possible after the launch spike settles down?
Second unanswered question is⊠How much has Shadowlands already sold? After massive amount of thinking, I finally decided last week to skip the digital versions entirely and pre-ordered the CE version (one only for my main account) from my local gaming store. Blizzard may already have a fairly good idea, which realms have the highest numbers of already existing Shadowlands level accounts and how many units of CEs they have been requested so far for the launch. It will be very interesting to see, how well Shadowlands sells in comparison to Battle for Azeroth.
Bigger realms only mean better economy/raiding if the added players are on the same side, if its just adding alliance to horde or vice versa nothing changes. Since neither the AH nor Raiding populations can interact. :-/
@Nerubine: Auction houses have been cross-faction for yearsâŠ
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I guess Ghostlands Doomhammer and Turalyon will be last merged as they are the one who put up a fight for this to happen .
I hope Chamber of Aspects will be merged; although itâs not super low-pop, it still has no guild on either faction thatâs 12/12 mythic, basically meaning you are forced to transfer if you want to get into raiding seriously.
@Daestra: For the time being I am just guessing, but I would predict both 2-ways will be used somewhere around the middleâŠ
@Furixe: Based on the activity data I would say yes, possibly even fairly soon. However, again just guessing for now, too many combinations still remain available.
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I donât know. Its population is quite balanced, so merging it with another realm could shift the balance to one side easily. Besides, the population is pretty solid, so why would they need more people?
Your post can be useful to see exactly what blizzard said, since they didnât in this thread, but just so you know I and trelw were already talking about those specific connections a few posts back.
@Trelw: you might be right about those 4 realms having a low chance to be connected, cause if you think about it thereâs evidence for full realms being connected, but thereâs still a huge difference between some of them, and if you check the amount of people online on who at the same time on blackhand vs draenor the difference is crazy, even though both are full horde, and even tarren mill back in 2014 or so was quite a step down from draenor.
@Daestra: they will certainly connect ghostlands-dragonblight, it cycles between medium and low and these days has been low more often than not, a clear sign of decline, however I have to say doomhammer-turalyon is actually doing well thanks to the new players mark, I am on horde there and whenever I check people on who I see A LOT of people compared to most english realms, and the strongest side is ally, if they removed the new players mark itâd show as high.
That isnât to say it will not be connected, but could be used to help some realm that is actually marked as low pop, who knows, maybe the one you mentioned.
@Furixe: chamber of aspects should really be merged, yes, itâs very balanced faction wise, an anomaly on a realm, and itâs been like this ever since I started playing there in 2013, and this obviously hinders progress cause you donât have a dominant side with more people to raid.
Itâs typically medium, very rarely high, I think itâs been declining in population lately.
Blizzard explain me why Kilrogg, Nagrand, and Runetotem realms get merged but Ghostlands/Dragonblight have less population (horde is to low) I mean what is up with that ?
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Cause Ghostlands wouldnât live up to its name if they started connecting servers to it /s
In all seriousness it probably will happen they just arenât doing all the connections at once, give it a few weeks and iâm sure the server will have company. Theres nowhere saying they will stop doing connections after this round and last time they did them, there were connections up until the week before an expansion launched (WoD)
In addition to what janek said, 1) the kilrogg connection failed, no matter what blizzard says on merit, so now it might be really hard to get it connected if blizzard is convinced itâs already done, so you might be better off on dragonblight, and 2) they said they wonât go in population order, itâs based on their physical locations and other stuff.
But they cant be that ignorant, they have to know it didnt work at all, there is posts all over the place about it failing, exept from Blizzard.
also if they do not connect kilrogg-hellfire, but connect the rest, it is the death of theese servers whit no way out anymore.
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Realms being connected today are already offline. Since theyâll only be back early morning weâll only see tomorrow if the connection was successful.
Does this mean that Blackmoore wille be offline until next morning too? Because in the main menu in the âBreaking Newsâ section no âBlackmooreâ is listed.
@HealyĂ : It appears that the âBreaking Newsâ only shows English ones. If you know someone, who has the German client, have him or her check whether there is any news article at all in German⊠Though it is possible the answer is no. Blizzard has not been very successful at keeping us informed⊠
Yes, it is a pity. I was meeting some friends today for playing some arena. Everybody made some time for it. Now we realize we cant. Because I dont see the news for german servers and just because I have my game running in english. wtf, thanks blizzard -.-
@Healyà : Unfortunately, there is only this from two days ago⊠Could not see newer info, sorry!
Thanks for your effort! Now we know for sure =)
@Healyà : In this case there is no need to thank me, I really did not do much⊠