Raid consumables and mats for pre-raid gear/enchants cost absurdely high now, the first reason are bots inflating gold, the second reason are people transfered from classic HC after death and start raiding on era and deficit of open-world resources (we have only 1 era server and only 1 layer on it), economic now is broken because of 2 these reasons, you need now over 1000 gold for 30 SP weapon enchant for example (essences of air cost 100-150 gold) also you need over 1000-1500 gold for naxx consumables, if blizzard can’t do anything with bots please return layers at least, prices of open-world resources are absuredly high and you need to farm many hours without buying gold to start raiding on era.
Yes maybe layers are not true classic experience but overpopulated server, flying bots and 100-150g for essence of air are also not true classic experience.
Can you explain why? Yes layers are not classic experience ofc, but, classic as it was in 2005 was not designed for so big server population as we have now, ofc yes, some competition and pvp on farm spots and open world quests is ok and it is classic experience, but now we have absurdely big online on era for 1 layer. Players can’t do questing so they buying mara boosts, players can’t farm resources so they buying gold for it. Is it classic experience?
Anything better than layering. They can split the servers again like they merged them for my part, I don’t care. It was not a smart move to do a permanent merge in the first place imo.
What is wrong with layering? Any objective reason?
The problem is, that classic era was not so popular for 1,5 years until Feb 2023, and splitting this little online for many servers was not a good idea. Blizzard couldn’t predict that classic hype will begin again and many people return to era. You propose to separate them, but how it will happen, if players will be able to chose 1 realm they will all chose the same, if not and it will be random split, they will not be able to play with friends anymore. Layers are good solution so you can play with friends if you want and able to do quests and/or farm resources instead of waiting for mob respawn or buying gold to skip game, yes layers have some disadvantages but it is the only solution in current situation.
I got the solution! Block hc transfers to pvp 1 clusters, let em come to pve/rp they are pve realms anyway. And for you ppl that did not moved from hc realms, just transfer to pve/rp cluster, or to 2nd pvp cluster. You may ask kindly for free transfer to rp/pve too they may give it at some point.
This also have a disadvantage, that when classic hype will be over (or for example if blizzard open classic+ and most people will go there from the era), era will again have very little online and blizzard need to merge servers (or open free transfer) again, layering is much easier solution, layers can be enabled or disabled in any time depends of online, and I still haven’t heard any objective reasons why layering is bad except of “Classic experience<…>” (But waiting multiple times for quest mob respawn, and then buying gold for maraboost is much more classic experience ofc)
I dont have issue with layers tbh i found it a good addition, But seeing a realm having issue with overpopulation while there is others that could need few more ppl, I see my solution as a win/win situation for both, you might say here “blizzard loses tho” true, it wins subs however.
literally unplayable atm. This is the worst it’s ever been, i played classic era at launch and we had some layers if i’m not mistaken. Stormwind is a lagfest, no quest mobs available
and escort quest is always taken. Ganking is nonstop and nowhere to escape. I’m actually having a horrible time playing with a friend. The lag is the worst and could be fixed! Ganking will always be there but not to this extent. HC has like what, 7 or 8 layers? and now they swarm the normal servers when they eventually die.
I don’t think that it depends of it, layers were in classic era in summer before hardcore, when here were less players then we have now, and after hc launch they were disabled by blizzard for some reason, but the fact is that now we have a lot more online then we had in summer when here were 2-3 layers, so I don’t think that it is automatic system, if it were automatic, there would already be 3-5 layers on era now.
this cluster is turning into more of a laggy shi thole by the day. If you dont recognise that you are delusional. The economy is going incredibly fast downhill the inflation is insane. Prices have quadrupled and more in regards to many things the last two months. I would suggest that, if no layering, then they need to do something about the clusters and the amount of players. This is getting out of hand quickly.
Absolutely true, back in the days when i was playing from 2006 to 2008 they were opening new servers from time to time, so players from high/full populated servers could transfer to these new servers for free. But more server means more costs, so i don’t think they will do it. It’s just a small indie company
