Did something happen with Sharding? Oribos is packed full of players onscreen

[Big Thanks]

I play since Shadowlands release and i never saw Oribos or anything THIS busy and packed with players on screen.
Not even on reset day on the vault.

I noticed this yesterday at a random hour too...now, randomly, Oribos has a lot of players at the same time on screen.

And today i never seen the Vault this packed.

I play on a Low Population server too...Boulderfist (EU)

[Mysterymask]

https://www.wowhead.com/news/virtual...ly-28th-323586

[Nelle]

Obviously all there waiting to open vault at 09:00

Nothing to see here, move along.

[Big Thanks]

https://www.wowhead.com/news/virtual...ly-28th-323586

Yeah but...Sharding usually keeps us separated...
There are at least 50+ players on my screen right now.

I cant even see the Vault

[EnacheV]

probably they turned off some hardware downscaling for saving costs

[Pheraz]

https://www.wowhead.com/news/virtual...ly-28th-323586

I am a little bit bit confused. Didn't they ask us to support the walk out by not playing any blizzard title today? I mean I don't mind any of the actions either standing there or not playing but I would like to know what the plan is

[Zka]

Is that packed? LOL. See Karazhan entrance on reset day evenings.

[tikcol]

Shadowlands players immediately think something is wrong if they see more than 5 characters in their screen

[Wuusah]

Yeah but...Sharding usually keeps us separated...
There are at least 50+ players on my screen right now.

I cant even see the Vault

I guess there is some limitation at how many shards there can be for each zone.

[muto]

Obviously all there waiting to open vault at 09:00

Nothing to see here, move along.

Yeah this. That's the most players you'll see in the same screen in a week in Shadowlands unless you're queueing epic bgs.

[Big Thanks]

I guess there is some limitation at how many shards there can be for each zone.

I remember perfectly Shadowlands release day.
There we threads created saying you would barely see anyone on screen...and i experienced the same.

So on release day the game was heavily sharded, i remember

BUT

For some reason, since a couple days ago, im seeing a lot of player onscreen at the same time :O
I even randomly brought this up to friends yesterday on discord and showd a print screen with Oribos randomly heavily populated

Today was just insane on the Vault

[Raetary]

That's literally every wednesday morning ever.

People are just waiting for the vault to open.

[Nerph-]

I actually noticed this as well, but it was this morning at 4am, so before reset... there were more people in Oribos than when I'd logged off Tuesday evening.

[Big Thanks]

I actually noticed this as well, but it was this morning at 4am, so before reset... there were more people in Oribos than when I'd logged off Tuesday evening.

Yesssssss, right? Me too
I even brought this up on discord randomly to friends yesterday

[Lochton]

I play since Shadowlands release and i never saw Oribos or anything THIS busy and packed with players on screen.
Not even on reset day on the vault.

I noticed this yesterday at a random hour too...now, randomly, Oribos has a lot of players at the same time on screen.

And today i never seen the Vault this packed.

I play on a Low Population server too...Boulderfist (EU)

Eh, just balancing functioning as it should. It isn't that many.

I am guessing one of the support groups? Dunno.

[Big Thanks]

Eh, just balancing functioning as it should. It isn't that many.

I am guessing one of the support groups? Dunno.

They were all there for the Vault...but honestly i never seen so many players on screen since...oof, i cant even remember.
Is usually very sharded.

[Dracullus]

They should make bigger shards. WoW often looks empty when it's not. And don't start with - "but its empty lol" - I felt I play almost single player game on RELEASE DAY.

[Kumorii]

Looks normal to me.

[Puri]

Since the outcome of sharding is completely transparent to us, the technology behind it isn't.

So that means either:
a) They increased the possible amount of players in a shard (or the Oribos shard in particular)
b) They reduced the amount of concurrent shards (or the Oribos shard in particular), forcing more players into one
c) They adapted your server/server group to include more players
d) You are mistaken

For reference I am playing on a "locked" server, and yesterday I remembered I had to complete the tormentors event in the maw at 11pm, and in my shard there were only a handful people there. But since the lfg tool still had many groups listed I conclude that the shards still are kept rather small. But who knows, perhaps they simply reduced the amount of available Oribos shards to free ressources for more Maw shards.

[Doffen]

At any time on wednesdays it is like this. And my server is low/medium.