There is still a realm capacity regardless of sharding.
I hope Blizzard are going to merge some realms with Khadgar and Bloodhoof they so low on population might as well be single player, we need one before shadowlands lauch for the love of azeroth.
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Yeah, I updated the forums every week for a Bloodhoof/Khadgar merge announcement. Now it seems like itâs not happening. Iâve started leveling characters on Draenor just to have other people around me come Shadowlands. It feels pretty bad to leave 12+ year old characters behind.
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Youâre a third rate citizen, EU forums are about posters not Blizz, sorry you didnât get the memo, I hope this makes it clearer going forward.
I was talking about Twitter.
Bugged em again on twitter today: Nothing so far.
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Itâs pretty obvious there is a deliberate policy of avoiding giving any information about this. If they can reply to other stuff, then theyâve obviously seen these posts and requests, so it makes sense theyâre ignoring them. Either because thereâs a problem and they donât have an answer, and feel not answering is better than giving a âdonât knowâ answer, or they do know and donât want/have time to currently deal with any backlash.
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Given your item level on turalyon, considering I just have a non-raiding 120 horde alt there, obviously you have more experience concerning the state of guilds, so ok, maybe the progress is not great, but I donât think there are a lot of decent servers if you need a top 500 guild to call them decent, in that case thereâs probably 60 dead servers still in eu, out of 92.
On the last point, new players canât be worse than low, how can it? New players simply means that if I, new player, decide to start with wow, and pick english realms I get directed to turalyon, then I can change but the first recommended choice will be that realm, and if I, veteran player, decide to start a 3rd account Iâm also redirected there.
A new players realm could have the lowest population eu, or one of the biggest, you will not understand the population from that indicator.
And as far as population itself goes, that realm currently trumps quelâthalas, which is marked as medium, when on horde we had 20 people you had over 50, and the ally-horde ratio is the exact same: 58% ally, 42% horde.
But since you complained mostly about the progress with your post, letâs see what wow progress says, you said there are only 2 guilds that can clear new content within decent time, I suppose you mean requiem and MM for ally, while horde has Pure, down of the undead and descendants that are atm full mythic.
I gave a look at other realms and in general youâre better off than 60% of the english realms and worse off than 40% when it comes to progress, not saying they couldnât connect you so that you have 10 guilds to clear it at a decent time, just saying thereâs also realms that still have no full mythic guild, not a single one!
If you think Iâm joking when I talk about realms without any single full mythic guild, thereâs lightbringer, moonglade, aerie peak and these are just the english ones ofc.
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Well I guess now theyâve delayed the expansion, and announced the date for the pre-patch, there is the possibility theyâll wait for the patch to settle in, then start on connections again?
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Except for like 5 realms, most german realms are considered dead, while those 5 have over 2 pages of CE guilds, compared to the maximum of 3-5 CE guilds in total for the other realms.
Even already merged realms, such as Amanâthul or Anubâarak are still considered dead servers.
Basically, Blackrock, Blackmoore, Thrall, Eredar, Blackhand and Antonidas are still active servers. For alliance, only Blackmoore and Antonidas can be considered active.
Every server below them in population is at best a few guildtransfers away from being dead and at worst already dead.
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I just hope you donât pull a Khadgar move on the next server merges.
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So SL is delayed, can we have some more connection meanwhile? 
Well, I agree when it comes to the population levels, that those you mentioned are the biggest and also as far as the alliance split goes, however that is a very harsh way to class realms, and in that case 80% of realms eu still need connections.
I donât think thatâs what blizzard intends to do, I think as long as you achieve 1.000-1.300 people at peak at this time they consider them ok, and amanâthul and anubâarak are like it.
I think blizzard should be around halfway the connection program, with around 30 remaining connections, some definitely directed to german realms but not to the point that theyâll become as big as thrall etc.
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I dont think you can realistically call something like the Todeswache cluster dead now that its been connected twice. by that metric 80% of wow is dead and the garrosh cluster def isnât dead either and an alliance server.
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Imo 80% of EU realms still need connections, I agree. I also believe that realms are an arbitrary system (outside of RP and non RP Realms, obviously) ever since warmode and sharding got introduced and its existance is only good for having multiple black market auction houses as well as earns money through character transfers / guild transfers. Serveridentity is long gone, sadly, so whatâs the point in having different servers and creating restrictions to play together?
Since we have no exact player metrics we can only use things such as wowprogress, which is obviously not 100% accurate, but if we compare full servers (several pages of 12/12 mythic guilds on wowprogress) to high servers (more than 1 page of 12/12 mythic guilds on wowprogress) to medium (not more than 5 12/12 mythic guilds) to low (0-3 12/12 mythic guilds) to new players (0-1 12/12 mythic guilds) you can see insane disparity between the servers.
As an example: Blackhand over 40 guilds with 12/12 mythic. 80% of realms donât even have 1/8th of that. Honestly, Iâm not saying every server should be filled to the brim with people, but, since we donât have a metric of âX players active on this serverâ such as Blizzard, I can only use the data Iâve been given, at the very least a few CE guilds for each realm isnât too much to ask for, is it?
I mean if we look at worldranks, everything worse than 2000 usually doesnât clear a content before the next one is released, while 1000-2000 sometimes do and sometimes donât and everything between 0-999 is a regular CE guild.
Most servers on medium or low have a maximum of 5 of those guilds, if at all that many.
I wish I could factor in things such as players not raiding, roleplaying, etc., but sadly Blizzard provides me with exactly 0 data, so outside of number of guilds whoâve killed a boss this content as well as numbers of guilds whoâve cleared mythic, I have very little to use.
The thing is, mythic raiding is what finances the consumables in the auction house, mostly. If a guild wipes 300 times to jaina, azshara, nzoth or whatever, they consume much more consumables in a much shorter time, compared to effectively anything. If you have enough mythic guilds on the server, you can easily sell vantus runes, because not all of them will have scribes. You can buy and sell flasks and pots for reasonable prices, because thereâll be enough players both buying as well as selling them. Same goes for food, feasts, tomes, etc.
And one major issue of being on a small server (outside of pretty much always being sharded with larger servers) is the auction house. Prices are either too high or you canât get anybody to buy anything from you.
I donât think either. Tbh, Iâm even baffled they actually merged some of the servers with larger servers. My expectations were that theyâre going to merge dead servers with dead servers and fix exactly nothing, what they did for the most part.
I hope youâre correct, I still have hopes for my good old Terrordar, which has been dying ever since Aversion left it. Honestly, Iâd even take a dead realm merge at this point, but as Blizzard usually does, thereâs nothing but radio silence.
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Hate it how 2 of realms i play on are new players connected to new player realm and another low pop realm connected to low pop realm, seriously wtf
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hang on, just for clarifications sake, are they finished with the realm connections now? the 3 months timeline they set is over & the post was unpinned, hasnât been an update on wowhead for about a week, are they just more focused on fixing beta or are they happy with the connections they have made???
coz i am still sat on a dead server strongly considering going horde so i can actually play the bloody game
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Instead of say something they decided to shut down realm connection plan and remain silent like it never happened.
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Unfortunately no-one knows. Other than those who do know ⊠and theyâre not telling. Not sure why they feel they have to keep it a secret. Other than they possibly donât want the inevitable backlash. But then ⊠perhaps if they had done what they promised, there wouldnât be one 
We are assuming, from all the evidence, that at the very least, Connections are postponed. No idea why.
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Weâve not had a blue post confirming either way but the topic got unpinned so we think maybe they are done for the time being.
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