In an interview with Omar Gonzalez and Brian Birmingham they mentioned they were kind of excited on which new “happy” accidents Classic could unintentionally bring to the table, and I think we are experiencing this one very strongly.
Trouble finding Steelsnap walking his patrol path? Ask for an invite to hop onto another layer and look there.
Your quest mob already dead? /1 someone layer me please
Missing that 1 annoying silver vein to skill up so you can start mining Iron? Just switch layer when you’re with a vein spawn location.
Trying to gank that annoying alliance? He’s probably layering while corpse running.
Getting ganked by a gank-squad? Don’t ask for backup, ask to be layered!
It’s already affected how I’m playing the game, because it’s so quick and easy, and widespread, that why wouldn’t I ask to be layered if my quest-mob is already dead? I’d be more happy if this wasn’t possible.
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Getting ganked by a gank-squad? Don’t ask for backup, ask to be layered!
I love layer hopping, especially when im just trying to level and then getting ganked by a rogue or feral druid 10 levels higher than me literally 2 shotting me. You bet your a s s im gonna abuse layers by hopping lul. Not gonna waste my time staying around
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Imagine crying about pvp when you picked a pvp realm LOL
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I keep hearing this stuff can be abused to corner the market on some mats/reagents, if that’s the case, they’ll need to be loud and clear about exploitation bans.
Should one report people asking for layer switching in the generals?
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It’s maybe a dumb question since I don’t really know how it works but, how do you know the person grouping you is not already on your layer ?
I haven’t used layering myself yet, but wouldn’t blame anyone for using it tbh. I blame Blizzard for implementing something into the game that nobody asked for, wanted or needed. **** Blizzard and layering XD
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why do you play on a pvp server in the first place then
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It’s sad how easy it is to abuse. There should be some restrictions when the layer changes.
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everytime you change layer you should get dc’d and put back in que 
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Because if you switched it off, the entire Azeroth would look like a shopping mall at the end of the month. I have seen private realms with 14 000 concurrent players (No layering), it’s not pretty. The entire place feels like an ant colony, it’s genuinely horrible.
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You can all put your toys back in your prams now. There has been an update 
“ETA 22:00 CEST for English Realms”.
Layering is quick enough (perhaps 10 seconds) that I would think you’d at least be able to affect the market. If you get your herbalism to max to farm Black Lotus (rare herb spawn) and get your guild to constantly invite you to layer hop and re-check the few spawn locations in the zone over and over.
In i.e. Silithus there are 10 spawn locations where a Black Lotus will spawn, but there will only spawn one in the entire zone. When it is picked, an internal timer will start (perhaps 60-70 minutes) before another one will spawn in one of those 10 locations.
In total there are 5 zones where Black Lotus spawns, so in a layer there can a maximum be 5 Black Lotuses plants active at the same time, one in each zone. So if you have 5 people which can all layer hop, your guild should have no problems banking up on the plant.
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Oh boy, OK, well this isn’t going to be massive problem very soon, I’m guessing they’re waiting for the economy to pick up and then use those farmed herbs for RMT, great stuff.
There are probably thousands of gold farmers/sellers abusing the crap out of layering now.
This seems like a programming oversight, there has to be ways to bind a rare herb to a character and set a timer for discovery instead of binding it to a layer.
Just a stupid “You have to wait a while to perform this action again” red popup
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Inb4 nobody moves caues why the **** would they. I ain’t moving XD
Ya I’ve been watching a streamer who is lvl 60 on his server in NA. He is only one of 9 players max level on his server and has just been running around the high level zones with maps of were rares spawn and killing the same rares 5-6 times each a pop using layering. Its insane how exploitable it is rn. If you defend layering, you are defending this sort of behaviour too.
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lmao, how are these clowns not permanently banned for exploitation?
I don’t want to sound like a hater, but this legitimately screws with economy.
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Friend sent me this picture of his guild friend. They are abusing hopping to the max.
https://i.imgur.com/gkCgOez.jpg
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