Realm Connections planned for September 3

[Palapop]

So, Im from Sylvanas. This week, I couldnt progress on nzoth mythic with my fixed pug group because 4 members from Darksorrow (which got conncted to other realms during this reset) couldnt enter raid after their realms have been connected.
The same fate awaits me and all others from Sylvanas realm once realm connections have been established?
Why are they doing this in mid of the raid reset? Why cant they do it the night before realm restarts?

Seriously? 2 weeks of 0 progress! And were just few weeks away from pre patch.

If Blizzard devs could only think....


(this is because our mythic IDs don't work AT ALL once our realms get f*cked up)

[Lucetia]

So, Im from Sylvanas. This week, I couldnt progress on nzoth mythic with my fixed pug group because 4 members from Darksorrow (which got conncted to other realms during this reset) couldnt enter raid after their realms have been connected.
The same fate awaits me and all others from Sylvanas realm once realm connections have been established?
Why are they doing this in mid of the raid reset? Why cant they do it the night before realm restarts?

Seriously? 2 weeks of 0 progress! And were just few weeks away from pre patch.

If Blizzard devs could only think....


(this is because our mythic IDs don't work AT ALL once our realms get f*cked up)

None of that should matter since the ID's are locked per toon. If you are extending it then only one would extend and everyone can latch on to it. If you are forming a new raid then again it shouldn't matter because it would be fresh regardless. I know a few people who had zero issues raiding mythic once their realms connected or they raided with a newly connected realm.

[khazmodan]

merging NINE servers together...how do you spin that WoW is in a good position when this is being done?. They have to do it to slow down the sub losses that can go into a tailspin but it still shows the level of problems that the current developers have created.

[Rogalicus]

merging NINE servers together...how do you spin that WoW is in a good position when this is being done?. They have to do it to slow down the sub losses that can go into a tailspin but it still shows the level of problems that the current developers have created.

Wait for people to spin it like it's population increase because every connected realm is displayed separately on realm list, but shows the entire cluster population, not its' own.

[Lucetia]

merging NINE servers together...how do you spin that WoW is in a good position when this is being done?. They have to do it to slow down the sub losses that can go into a tailspin but it still shows the level of problems that the current developers have created.

It's only negative if you look at it negatively. They have increase the amount of people a server can handle over the years. So by merging they are able to put more people to meet that cap. Overall though there is no reason to "spin" it because only those who try to be negative about it will be the ones who need to find a reason for it. Everyone else will be fine with it and move on.

[NatePsy]

Now just merge Saurfang with Barthilas pls

[Luciferstwin]

"The Eredar, Gorefiend, Spinebreaker, and Wildhammer realms will join the Hellscream and Zangarmarsh realms."

Great.... more 3:1 Horde dominate servers coming to Hellmarsh.... Whats the point of even playing alliance anymore

[Marmot]

Ergh... I'm annoyed at how slow the pace of mergers is being for EU servers. Still waiting to see if my server gets merged.

I'm guessing either the server engineer team is much smaller for EU or this is some indication as to the player population difference between NA and EU?

[Ragnarohk]

merging NINE servers together...how do you spin that WoW is in a good position when this is being done?. They have to do it to slow down the sub losses that can go into a tailspin but it still shows the level of problems that the current developers have created.

I wouldn't say that it's a developers only issue. The genre as a whole (MMORPGs) is dying.

[Queen of Hamsters]

merging NINE servers together...how do you spin that WoW is in a good position when this is being done?. They have to do it to slow down the sub losses that can go into a tailspin but it still shows the level of problems that the current developers have created.

Funny how this tail spinn has been going for over a decade and in the face of official legal reports without ever reaching its climax. Just insert x grievance into the jukebox of perpetual repetition.

Now THAT, is spinning.

[Swnem]

I'm guessing either the server engineer team is much smaller for EU or this is some indication as to the player population difference between NA and EU?

I have since learned they don't report on mergers for other languages here. There are more mergers going on. It's the english language ones that are slower and there are likely less than in the US.

[Nemah]

Whats the point of even playing alliance anymore

To be shiny and pretty, of course.

I'm glad they're connecting realms like this, though I'm worried it's too little/too late. The community still sucks, so I'm not sure if it's going to invigorate anything again. Who knows? I guess a bigger pool is a bigger pool.

Selfishly my various alts that are parked on dead servers to farm this or that are sad. I like dead servers for some things.

[Palapop]

None of that should matter since the ID's are locked per toon. If you are extending it then only one would extend and everyone can latch on to it. If you are forming a new raid then again it shouldn't matter because it would be fresh regardless. I know a few people who had zero issues raiding mythic once their realms connected or they raided with a newly connected realm.

Yep. Thats how it SHOULD work.

But 4 guys from Darksorrow realm couldnt enter raid after connections have been established.

They were getting "you are already locked to this instance" message once they would try to enter.

[Usagi Senshi]

Those poor Dreadmaul and Thaurissan realm people. I'd rather quit the game than play on Frostmourne.

Yup, back in 2012-2014 (got off with the free transfers for non-oceanic players at the end there) I played Horde on both Deadmaul and Thaurissan and transferred my gnome DK to Frostmourne. Now that is a server will way too many people and fucktards on it on only one side (Alliance).

[seabmn]

Yep. Thats how it SHOULD work.

But 4 guys from Darksorrow realm couldnt enter raid after connections have been established.

They were getting "you are already locked to this instance" message once they would try to enter.

can anyone confirm that if they raid mythic - getting saved to a mythic raid id - and then their realm is connected to another realm, that they can enter the raid with their guild for the rest of the week.

last week i raided on wednesday, was realm connected on thursday, and then couldnt enter the raid portal with my team until today. it said i was already saved to mythic.

we have more realm connections tomorrow - if we raid as a community tonight, are those people connected up tomorrow going to find they also cannot raid until next reset?

do we need to cancel tonights raid, and only raid AFTER the realms are connected? anyone know?