It is true, can’t satisfy everyone however even Alliance on Draenor are much greater in numbers than in SR/Azu 
That is factually not true. You are missing out the 6 mythic guilds on Stormrage, your own realm. So it’s 6+1 =7, then you have to account for the many guilds below 10/12 as some of those will probably merge and make more progress, so you’re looking at perhaps near 10 mythic guilds. Sounds good to me.
Also, I didn’t say that it has to stop there. I’m sure there are other realms in a similar boat that could also be connected, raising that number significantly.
It’s end of an expansion, whatever is being killed now is irrelevant because you can PuG mythic and guilds pug missing players. 2 guilds are 12/12.
There is a single guild in entire SR/Azu cluster that clears Mythic content rest of them are either strugglers or pug guilds just like mine was.
So yeah if you take a look at wowprogress and how many guilds cleared CoS or EP you’ll see only one. And that was before several guilds and a lot of raiders decided to transfer off.
Half of my raiding squad already transfered and i constantly hear about more people leaving my realm.
I am not saying you’re entirely wrong, you do have valid points, connecting low+low is still higher low however being here so long i think that is not a solution in a long run and it’s better to plan ahead.
CoS is not a valid raid for comparing who’s a mythic guild and who isn’t.
I mean how many guilds have it down now? 300? Everything world 1000-1500 (depends on how easy the content is, for jaina it was even 2k iirc) or better usually gets CE, everything else usually doesn’t get it before the next content releases.
EP obviously is and thus your point stands. I just wanted to butt in and complain about Crucible being used as an indicator for how many active mythic guilds there are. The raid was skipped by pretty much every guild that doesn’t regularly get famed slayer.
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Don’t let this fall down too low, they unpinned our thread and didn’t say a word, to my knowledge we’re completely in the dark and there’s a metric crapton of low pop servers still in need of help.
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They’re done with the merges? The Bloodscalp realm is still a ghost town…
It looks like they only care about the US playerbase as always.
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US realms are the same thing, even worse tbh… they didn’t even touch the Brazilian servers which means US-gallywix is the least populated server in wow by a lot.
but even the forum posts there basically confirm it, once the last outstanding connection finally gets connected seems there done.
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Contacting support on twatter is also met with silence.
Tried to ask both regions of CS what is happening with server connections in the EU and why they unpinned the thread. Two days later: still nothing.
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I read every post here and I agree on the long term you probably need a big realm to be connected to, I just wanted to point out draenor, kazzak and twisting nether have 100 guilds at 12\12 mythic, not 15-25!
Obviously it’s possible you count less guilds even for those cause some might’ve been using some pugs to fill out, but just to show the crazy difference between them.
Also, like another poster said, there’s a problem if you want to fix the alliance population by connecting small to big in the crz #1, as in the one including lightbringer, azuremyst, bronze dragonflight, bloodscalp, generally every realm the last posts talked about: all of the potential big destination realms are horde heavy: draenor, tarren mill, burning blade, burning legion, that’s what we can work with, and the last 2 of them are NOT english speaking realms even (czech and polish).
Therefore, if you connect lightbringer to draenor horde is ok but ally will still be in trouble, unless you merge it to yet another small one such as azuremyst, then maybe the allys from azuremyst + lightbringer + draenor will be enough to have a decent population.
This is something along the lines of what they did with the australian realms, they merged the biggest one, frostmourne (full ally) with 2 small horde dominated ones, so ally is fine and horde is far better than it was.
US getting more mergers, announced today, so maybe there’s some hope still.
Again, 10/10 communication failure anyway. Pat yourselves on the back Blizz.
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To be fair even with Draenor being full server connecting such small servers like SR/AZU or Lightbringer wouldn’t matter for Draenor itself but it would be very beneficial for us.
I do realise Draenor has very low Alliance pop yet still it’s higher than our servers combined i think.
There is another matter and its the economy. Currently on my server sometimes i wait days to sell enchants/mats/herbs. Selling tmog i can forget about. 
I think that single US merge that is being done is something that was delayed before so they just ending this circle.
I shared some of the optimism that they stop temporary for prepatch and SL release due to the bugs in the US that caused people to lose accounts and rollback character, however when i think about it when SL is released the dev team for many weeks if not months will be focused on bugs fixes, balancing classes, new content will there be a time for connections?
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There won’t be enough time most likely.
We’ve seen it in the past. Bugs and such from previous expansions get on the back burner and they put most focus on the newest release. That usually follows up with cycles of them heavily focusing on the ‘big’ patches.
I’m not that hopeful if this takes a break that it will be re-started shortly. Worst case scenario: we’ll be again waiting a year or two.
It probably will take a few months thats for sure, only the future can tell though…
There is no way the current state can be the end product however, it feels very much like an unfinished project as things currently stand.
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Mainly, I think, because we (some of us anyway) still trust that, when Blizzard have said they’d continue Connecting all the low pop realms, they meant it. Very obviously there are a lot of realms currently that are still low pop - however, they may well be going off stats we don’t have, for example active accounts of people on a realm, who are just taking a break from logging in. Perhaps some of those low pop realms will burst into medium or high life closer to SL. /shrugs
It’ll be a little late at that time I think. Guilds need to recruit now to have a semi stable roster in SL.
Medium is not very far from dead. My server with one active CE Mythic guild (3, at the beginning of BFA) has been listed as medium throughout BFA and only jumped to low very recently.
It is considered extremely dead, throughout the entirety of BFA. Aversion transferred off of it because they couldn’t buy enough stuff from the AH to support raiding actively.
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you have to realise though that the realm list display is relative to other realms in the region, so for this to be the case it would require that other servers don’t see a similar boost.
Ah true, good point 
I’ll rephrase then, and suggest that perhaps they will gain more life
After all, personally I don’t care if we’re classed as low, or medium or high - just so long as we have a viable number of players on our realm, of all interests, to still give it the “MMO” feel. A double digit active population, or honestly anything below 500 on any one faction, feels too low.
It would be nice to know what the “sweet spot” is considered to be. I’m assuming realms like Draenor are above that sweet spot as that is regularly classed as full and sees queues a lot more than other realms. But there must be a population size lower than that, that generally does not result in queues, but still has a lot of activity. I don’t understand why Blizzard don’t simply smoosh all the other realms together to create realms of that size, rather than faffing about with this little one here and that little one there.
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The last real server queues on Draenor would have happened approximately 4 years ago during the legion launch, Blizzard has since upgraded their server infrastructure that this shouldn’t be an issue… Login servers can still get backed up though, especially after major patches/expansion launch.
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I seriously hope there are more connections coming up. My realm group is pretty much dead and I’m sure it’s not the only one.
The general lack of communication from the devs in general is pretty annoying. Would’ve been nice to see some kind of roadmap for this when it was first announced, rather than having to wait and hope each week.
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