WoW Classic Era Realm Connections Coming May 19

Kyru-hydraxian-waterlords · July 8, 2021, 10:21am

Try a mirror.

Tevura-chromaggus · July 8, 2021, 6:22pm

How can the Tiger ask questions from the lion since he accepted the punishment?

Vanillataur-nethergarde-keep · July 8, 2021, 6:57pm

I wondered too. Maybe he should only be silent to all other animals. I should have edited the story

Cemike-bloodfeather · July 9, 2021, 7:07am

I thought i did, but i kind of lost you. So what is it that youre fighting for? More merges?

Niar-turalyon · July 9, 2021, 7:50am

This is the issue! When people go online and don’t see a living soul, because servers are not merged big enough - people simply dont go queing for BGs!

You need to make the world alive, by merging the servers, so that it feels alive - and makes people want to play!

Niar-turalyon · July 9, 2021, 7:54am

imagine if every player had their own layer, and you never meet other people, you are simply not motivated to spend a shi1tload of time inside that game, when you see no other people around!

Vanillataur-nethergarde-keep · July 9, 2021, 11:28am

Could somebody please explain to me if / how BG activity is the measure of a realms life / livelyness / wat to call it?
I log on, level, see lots of people levelling, make groups for hard quests, speak to people and are spoken to by other people. Get buffs and give buffs, trade, use AH etc, etc, but I do not enter a BG … what then? I see groups of level 60 in instances. Is a realm only alive when BGs happen?

Niar-turalyon · July 9, 2021, 11:37am

For serious PvPers the only endgame is world PvP (which obviously isnt happening because of low pop), and BG’s.

So if I can’t play BG, I am not logging on, which causes the ghost town effect.

Blizzard should realize this problem.

Vanillataur-nethergarde-keep · July 9, 2021, 12:03pm

Aha, it’s a PvP thing, then. Thank you for enlightening me. Yes I think Blizzard should merge the 2 PvP clusters.

Kyru-hydraxian-waterlords · July 9, 2021, 3:01pm

Also PVE. Unless you are so fortunate to have been blessed with realm connections.

Vanillataur-nethergarde-keep · July 9, 2021, 3:33pm

All PvE are merged already. Can’t do more

Kyru-hydraxian-waterlords · July 9, 2021, 3:38pm

That’s wrong and you know it. Troll much?

Vanillataur-nethergarde-keep · July 9, 2021, 4:53pm

I don’t know under which stone you live, but in the real world “all” three PvE servers have been merged since May 19.

Vanillataur-nethergarde-keep · July 10, 2021, 11:52am

Actually I think that all EU-English servers partake in the same BG pool, There’s just not enough players interested in this particular aspect of the game, I’m afraid.
It could be that the Classic Era players are mostly of the PvE kind. This is me speculating and thinking aloud. I do not know anything.
And I cannot see how Blizzard can do anything about it. Forcing people to join BGs is surely not an option

Mexi-der-rat-von-dalaran · July 10, 2021, 1:30pm

They only merged two of the three German PVEs and left one alone for some weird reason. Also, RP-PVE servers were not merged and the French one is also alone, afaik.

Even worse: All European servers are in the same Pool, including all English, German, Russian, Spanish and French servers (PVE, PVP, RP - all of them).

Vanillataur-nethergarde-keep · July 10, 2021, 2:23pm

Yeah, I said somewhat earlier that I knew next to nothing about the non-English realms. Strange disposition with the German servers. They should be merged.

But the RP-PvE - at least the English one is quite vocal in it’s resistance to a merge. Leave it alone and offer free transfer to everybody is my solution.
I repeat myself: The optimal solution for EU-English realms (clusters) would be 1 PvE, 1 PvP and 1 RP-RPvE. And free transfer for everyone in a limited period.

Well this at least makes me suspect that my speculation:

is right.

They seem to have realized and done something. What more could they do?

Valraun-hydraxian-waterlords · July 10, 2021, 3:25pm

I think it is less a case of Classic Era players being the PvE kind and more an issue that noone queues for the BGs, because they can see no BGs are happening, so they don’t bother queuing or they choose not to as they don’t want to sit and wait in an endless queue.

Vanillataur-nethergarde-keep · July 10, 2021, 3:29pm

Very possible too - as a PvE player I’m so not an expert here But it seems to me that the PvE realms are more populated; I lack specific numbers, just my gut feeling.
And I am not normally a defender of Blizz’ actions, but I’d like to know what (more) they should have done for the BGs?

Valraun-hydraxian-waterlords · July 10, 2021, 3:33pm

I don’t think much more can be done… BGs are fully player driven, if there’s not enough people active to keep them running, they will not get started. If population starts to pick up to a more healthy level, they will start running again perpetually.

I do wonder if there’s a way we can all communicate across the different server clusters thou, encourage everyone to queue for whatever BG is the chosen one in the weekends, that may alleviate some of the Era PvPer blues.

Vanillataur-nethergarde-keep · July 10, 2021, 3:37pm

I think the best way would be to start a thread here called something like “All Queue to BG-name at XX.XX server time”
I wish you luck!