Pet Battle Bonus Event, New Classic Oceanic Realm, Medium Pop Realm Queues

New Oceanic Realm Open - 7:30pm AEST August 27
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
We have opened a new realm in the Oceanic region:

Felstriker - PvP - AEST

The other two PvP options in the Oceanic region are currently experiencing significant login queues, so we’re bringing an additional realm online to handle demand. We recommend that players looking for a smoother experience strongly consider moving to this new realm, which should be drawing upon a population base that is easily sufficient to support an additional healthy Oceanic PvP realm community.

Thank you for your patience!

Login Queue Clarification on Medium Population Realms
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Why does Herod still have a 900 person, 8 minute queue when it’s showing Medium population?
The way realm population display currently works once the servers are live is that High, Medium, and Low are determined dynamically, in terms relative to the most crowded realms. So a realm with pretty rough queues (say 4k-5k) might end up showing as Medium because you aren’t Faerlina, Herod, etc.
This is how it’s worked for a long time, but the unprecedented size of the queues on the handful of outlier realms is skewing the algorithm. The team’s first priority is stability and getting new servers online as needed, but beyond that, we’ll look into changing this logic to be more intuitive (i.e. showing “Full” when a server has a queue, for starters). I know, this is technically not #nochanges, but then again neither are 20k people waiting to log into the same realm... (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

You MUST have known there would be long queues. Why the hesitation to have servers in place to handle extra players? (not characters)
I understand the frustration: Anticipating and planning around jumping back into this world we’ve all missed, only to be stuck in a long queue, is not the experience we want anyone to have.

But from the start of planning for this launch, we’ve tried to prioritize the long-term health of our realm communities, recognizing that if we undershot the mark in terms of launch servers, we could move quickly to add additional realms in the opening hours. But if we went out with too many servers, weeks or months down the line we’d have a much tougher problem to solve. While we have tools like free character transfers available as a long-term solution to underpopulated realms, everything about that process would be tremendously disruptive to realm communities, and so it’s something we want to avoid as much as possible.

Thus, we took the path of launching with few enough realms to still thrive in the event that our most conservative estimates ended up proving accurate, while having enough servers ready to activate at a moment’s notice if needed. And clearly they were, and are, needed.
We’ve released over 20 new realms worldwide so far since launch, and we’ll be up around the clock continuing to do so until everyone who wants to experience Classic is able to. But even still, as we bring new realms online in a given region, we wait for them to fill before opening new ones, because we want to make sure that each and every realm has a healthy population in the long term. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)


Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Where are the Zeppelins/Boats?
Are they not working or something? I have a bunch of people asking in general chat, but they’re just not showing up? Are they timegated or bugged?
There is a known issue that’s causing zeppelins and boats to be unavailable on certain servers (mainly the ones brought online after initial launch), which is obviously a major concern if you’re looking to switch starting areas to meet up with friends, or are getting to higher levels and have quests sending you across the sea. The upcoming regionwide restarts (4.5 hours from this post for NA/OCE) will fix this going forward. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Pet Battle Bonus Event
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Put your best battle pet teams to the test with this week’s event. To get in on the action, open your Pet Journal (Collections Shift+ P) and click the “Find Battle” button to be match up with an opponent with their own team of well-trained companions.

Look for the following all week long:

  • Chronicler Shoopa in Zuldazar and in Boralus has a quest for you – The Very Best. Or, if you forget to pick it up there, you can start it within the Adventure Journal.
  • Quest requirement: Win 5 pet battles versus other players with a team of three level-25 pets.
  • Reward: One Ultimate Battle-Training Stone.
  • Passive bonus: All Pet Battle experience gains are increased by +200%

Every Week
The Bonus Events system consists of a rotating schedule of different activities, currently scheduled to run each week beginning on Tuesdays. Each Bonus Event grants a passive bonus to a particular game activity and offers a once-per-event quest with a noteworthy reward for accomplishing a related goal. The in-game calendar can serve as your one-stop reference for the event schedule. The Adventure Guide also offers a direct link to active Bonus Events, allowing you to easily accept any associated quests.

Island Expeditions for the Week of August 27th, 2019
The Island Expeditions for the week are:

  • Crestfall with Orcs
  • Snowblossom with Mantid
  • Jorundall with Vargul


Classic Forum Changes Incoming
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
With the release of WoW Classic mere hours away, I wanted to provide a few updates on what will happen with the Classic sections on the forums:

  • Individual Classic Realm forums will be opened prior to launch.
  • Starting from 27th August, all WoW Classic sections will require an active subscription or game time to post in.
    • The current Classic Discussion section will also be archived tomorrow and a new one created so we start from a clean slate.
  • For now, we will not be adding Class or Profession sections for Classic. We encourage you to use the existing sections and prefix your thread title with [Classic]. We will monitor these sections over the coming weeks.

Not long to go now!
This article was originally published in forum thread: Pet Battle Bonus Event, New Classic Oceanic Realm, Medium Pop Realm Queues started by Stoy View original post
Published on 2019-08-27 06:17 PM
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  1. Zoneseek's Avatar
    The issue with releasing more realms now is most guilds or organized groups of players are not going to move. To curb this they needed to do a proper analysis of expected players ahead of time and released an appropriate set of servers at the original announcement, allowing guilds and organized groups of players to select an appropriate server and not have to change later. My guild discussed changing servers, there were people on vacation, there were people who had told their friends to roll on Herod with us, etc etc it was too much trouble at that point to change. The list needed to be appropriate for the playerbase out of the gate, it was not, so now we are going to suffer with queues and that's just it.
  1. Puddlejumper's Avatar
    It'll even out over time. Sure, some people got organized and came over in droves to particular servers, but most of the people who decided to roll on a full server are pretty free to change over, and a lot of them will. Combine that with the thinning of the ranks generally as tourists get their fill of the game and it shouldn't be THAT bad after the first week or so.
  1. iosdeveloper's Avatar
    motherfuckers decided to grab a shitton of money and than be cheap about amazon web services
    WTF? What's so bad about free transfers in the future? Transfers are happening 100% anyway

    I was excited sitting in queue yesterday, but today - not so much, since they plan to just wait it out
  1. BooQT's Avatar
    The way they were displaying the server statuses is completely unintuitive and borderline misleading.
  1. Tarx's Avatar
    Pyrowood Village EU before 1 hour was 1 hour queue now still say 1 hour queue waiting time . Damn you Blizzard Its 12 o clock and I m working tomorrow and I m still lvl 5. I couldn't play the whole day .
  1. korijenkins's Avatar
    The solution was never to just open more servers, the solution was to lock servers once they reached max capacity for a set amount of time after launch (essentially once a certain amount of accounts reserved a name on that server, it was locked, and a new server wouldn't be added until the previous one was full)
  1. Nnyco's Avatar
    Should've just added sharding for the first few days and not listen to fanatics on forums.
  1. Sastank's Avatar
    People asking questions about queues still really? They literally told you to play on other servers to avoid queues, told you they didn't want a lot of servers at launch for the sake of long term health, and opened even more realms. It's your own laziness or stupidity for being in queues for hours. But luckily for you Vanilla experience seekers, that's a big part of vanilla WoW.
  1. Gadzooks's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Zoneseek View Post
    The issue with releasing more realms now is most guilds or organized groups of players are not going to move. To curb this they needed to do a proper analysis of expected players ahead of time and released an appropriate set of servers at the original announcement, allowing guilds and organized groups of players to select an appropriate server and not have to change later. My guild discussed changing servers, there were people on vacation, there were people who had told their friends to roll on Herod with us, etc etc it was too much trouble at that point to change. The list needed to be appropriate for the playerbase out of the gate, it was not, so now we are going to suffer with queues and that's just it.
    From what i can see it's also people who reserved a name, and don't want to lose it.
  1. chiddie's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Nnyco View Post
    Should've just added sharding for the first few days and not listen to fanatics on forums.
    They should simply leave transfers FFA for the first month.

    Problem solved.
  1. Super Kami Dende's Avatar
    Man it is cringe-inducing how many idiots STILL don't understand the logic behind having less amount of servers and longer queues being the better option vs dead servers in a few months when the initial hype dies down.

    And People that use the "Just give Server Transfers!" which don't realise that in itself also fragments communities and hurts lower Pop Realms even more.
  1. Zoneseek's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by korijenkins View Post
    The solution was never to just open more servers, the solution was to lock servers once they reached max capacity for a set amount of time after launch (essentially once a certain amount of accounts reserved a name on that server, it was locked, and a new server wouldn't be added until the previous one was full)
    So your suggestion was just have all the servers locked and nobody else is allowed to play classic? They were all queued on release day. Lmao

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