Reduced layers on EU/US servers – Page 2 – General

teebling · 2019-10-03T11:14:25Z

US servers:Over the five weeks since we launched WoW Classic, we’ve continuously monitored realm populations and utilized layering when necessary to handle launch populations. As we’ve said before, we will have all realms on a single layer before introducing world bosses, and a great deal of progress has been made toward that goal.First and foremost, players have leveled up and spread out around the world. This allowed us to accommodate more players per layer, which means fewer layers required per realm. The last time a server in this region had more than three layers was the first week of September, and almost all realms reached two layers shortly after that. This includes high population realms such as Faerlina, which has had only two layers for three weeks now.Along the way, some select realms reached their end-state of a single layer, and we locked that in. With a change we made earlier this week, the following WoW Classic realms are now permanently set to one layer: Anathema Arcanite Reaper Ashkandi Azuresong Deviate Delight Earthfury Felstriker Heartseeker Netherwind Old Blanchy Remulos Smolderweb WindseekerBe on the lookout for another change that we will make in the coming days: soon, realms that are operating with more than one layer will indicate that on the realm selection screen. Those realms will say “Layered” in the realm list. Thereafter, you’ll only see the Full/High/Medium/Low markers for realms that are permanently set to one layer.We plan to move more realms to a single layer over time, and we will continue to offer free character moves to balance populations and manage login queues. In order to avoid queues in the future, we encourage you to use that service as soon as possible.Thank you very much! Source EU servers: Over the five weeks since we launched WoW Classic, we’ve continuously monitored realm populations and utilized layering when necessary to handle launch populations. As we’ve said before, we will have all realms on a single layer before introducing world bosses, and a great deal of progress has been made toward that goal.First and foremost, players have leveled up and spread out around the world. This allowed us to accommodate more players per layer, which means fewer layers required per realm. The last time a server in this region had more than three layers was the first week of September, and almost all realms reached two layers shortly after that.Along the way, some select realms reached their end-state of a single layer, and we locked that in. With a change we made earlier this week, the following WoW Classic realms are now permanently set to one layer:BloodfangDragonfangEarthshakerHydraxian WaterlordsJudgementTen StormsBe on the lookout for another change that we will make in the coming days: soon, realms that are operating with more than one layer will indicate that on the realm selection screen. Those realms will say “Layered” in the realm list. Thereafter, you’ll only see the Full/High/Medium/Low markers for realms that are permanently set to one layer.We plan to move more realms to a single layer over time, and we will continue to offer free character moves to balance populations and manage login queues. In order to avoid queues in the future, we encourage you to use that service as soon as possible.Thank you very much! Source

Iniustus

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Any news from EU servers?

Posted : 24/10/2019 10:49 pm

Pippina

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Any news from EU servers?

I'm on my phone so I'm not gonna try and link.. but I saw a Bluepost today saying that 4 EU server were flattened yesterday as well. Seems like the EU servers are not deflating nearly as fast as the US servers. They're going to have a hell of a time getting these last servers down to size small enough to remove layering...

Posted : 24/10/2019 11:02 pm

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There are far less EU servers, compared to US. The two big German servers (Lucifron and Venoxis) have 2-4 hour queues each evening. I'm playing on Heartstriker, the transfer target for Lucifron (and previously Venoxis). It's getting more crowded each day.

Posted : 25/10/2019 1:58 am

Samaraner

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At one point blizz will reduce layers regardless of population. The main reason to switch from High to Low/Medium pop is queue times, so the best course of action is to make these queues great again

Posted : 25/10/2019 3:49 am

Pippina

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At one point blizz will reduce layers regardless of population. The main reason to switch from High to Low/Medium pop is queue times, so the best course of action is to make these queues great again

Are you gonna transfer servers if your queue comes back and stays high?

Posted : 25/10/2019 10:49 am

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At one point blizz will reduce layers regardless of population. The main reason to switch from High to Low/Medium pop is queue times, so the best course of action is to make these queues great again

Are you gonna transfer servers if your queue comes back and stays high?

Stalagg queue at peak times is only ~15 minutes right now, and will probably continue to decline. I don't thnk its a concern.

Posted : 25/10/2019 11:29 am

Pippina

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There are far less EU servers, compared to US. The two big German servers (Lucifron and Venoxis) have 2-4 hour queues each evening. I'm playing on Heartstriker, the transfer target for Lucifron (and previously Venoxis). It's getting more crowded each day.

Stalagg queue at peak times is only ~15 minutes right now, and will probably continue to decline. I don't thnk its a concern.

I'm referring more to the EU megaservers that Leandros is talking about which are both still layered and have 4 hour queues. I wonder how these will have layering removed since they don't seem to be losing many players. I don't think Blizzard would release phases at different schedules on different servers, and Blizzard said they will not release Phase 2 until layers are disabled. So we look towards the highest population servers with the highest remaining queues as the bellwether of phases to come.

Posted : 25/10/2019 12:27 pm

Samaraner

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At one point blizz will reduce layers regardless of population. The main reason to switch from High to Low/Medium pop is queue times, so the best course of action is to make these queues great again

Are you gonna transfer servers if your queue comes back and stays high?

Everyone has a threshold which he would seem unbearable. I dont think I could accurately estimate mine.

Posted : 25/10/2019 12:42 pm

aeh

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Cant wait for one Layer Gehennas HEHEHE! :D

Posted : 29/10/2019 1:10 am