This is great news! Just layering and no more than first month! Definitely not in Phase 2 or later!
Can I use layering to escape gankers?
You want an authentic vanilla experience? Let the lag happen. Doing this then changing it in "a few months" is only going to weaken the server identities everyone so badly wanted back. This is a terrible idea.
Sounds like a reasonable compromise.
: hey, someone's camping me in STV, can anyone drop a pt invite for a second?
what about server merge?AKA, 3 servers. Ravencrest 1, Ravencrest 2, Ravencrest 3, with shared name pool. They can't see or interact with each other, and can be easily merged.Plus a system similar to FFXIV, to prevent players from overcrowding one certain "subrealm".
Would be amazing to Remove the Sharding Technology from Current world of Warcraft and make it more like Layering.I often find my self wanting to give people gold for their kind help or just want to ad them to my friend list or remember their name..... but then (*) are behind their name and you just get the feeling... I will never see this person again he is not on my server....that kinda Kills the MMORPG feeling we had in World of Warcraft.... that Kinda made World of Warcraft so great, you found people and Bonded with them!SHARDING... makes the world feel empty... since the players you meet on the roads or around in the world will never bee seen again... since we are in a WORLD... Servers should mean more then they do today.... back in vanilla and BC the Server communites where awesome... but Sharding kinda kills the joy of bumping into people and just hanging around.I understand why Sharding is around, but Layering seems like an Awesome twist of a very not so great "Shading techonolgy", so hope we can get that in Current wow or in a future Expansion.PS: why not make Mega servers... bringing back the Server communites or at least make the feeling possible, since as it is now... you meet more people from "what ever server" then from your own... and that is kinda sad...ANYWAY, GREAT JOB BLIZZARD, love that you always keep on Improving World of Warcraft Classic and Current... this just shows that Classic and current wow will both do each others good!Ciao!
mm I still don't understand what sharding/layer means, anyone can explain for me please?
I dont get it, whats the difference between this and sharding? The way its explained its literally how sharding works... except in sharding you are phased in another realms 'shard' but here it will be in the same realm but a different shard?
I'm reserving judgement until I see some proof "Layering" isn't the same as "Sharding" in end-user experience.