Chocolate & Vanilla
Fuck Strawberry
Garrison vendor sells a potion that gives 20% experience boost. Bonus quests give 4x experience of normal ones
Garrison vendor sells a potion that gives 20% experience boost. Bonus quests give 4x experience of normal ones
From the screenshots of the EU queues. I'd say we have it worse in NA.
Oh you got a 3000 queue? Let me show you my 5000 queue ;____;
End-game is always the focus. Raiding, challenge modes, PvP, etc. If you haven't been into that in the past then it'll probably be no different here.
Area 52 was pushing over 4500 a few times I checked
jupiter.jazz
Neo Member
Ravencrest EU reporting in!
Queue has only moved ~1000 places in the last 2.5 hours, hate to think how high the end is now.
Are these EU queues like, IMMEDIATELY after maintenance concluded? Or are you just trying to log in now after work, etc.?
I'm hoping that if I try to log on within the first 10 minutes after maintenance concludes here in the US, there'll be a minimal queue at worst. Wishful thinking?
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I played (or tried to play) almost all day yesterday, from 7am ET to 7pm ET.
I'd say crippling lag slowed things down at least 50% of the those 12 hours (5-10 min. total 'hangs' where nothing was doable and I just walked away to eat or do an errand), and another 20-30% of those 12 hours were spent either in queue or d/c'd or unable to log in.
I'm a hair away from 93.
I'm hoping that if I try to log on within the first 10 minutes after maintenance concludes here in the US, there'll be a minimal queue at worst. Wishful thinking?
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I played (or tried to play) almost all day yesterday, from 7am ET to 7pm ET.
I'd say crippling lag slowed things down at least 50% of the those 12 hours (5-10 min. total 'hangs' where nothing was doable and I just walked away to eat or do an errand), and another 20-30% of those 12 hours were spent either in queue or d/c'd or unable to log in.
I'm a hair away from 93.
Chocolate & Vanilla
Fuck Strawberry
The lv100s in my guild are loving Ashran. Highly pvp focused guild though so I have no idea about any pve stuff.
Art Vandilay
Member
Can your purchase the boost with gold or real life money?
I really hope they get this sorted out quickly.
I understand that, but I don't remember being able to level through an expansion so quickly in the past. I really hope the raids feel fresh.
Thanks for the replies, everyone! I'm probably going to buy it after work anyway....
I'm telling y'all, moving to a low pop realm is a bad move in the long run in my opinion. The waiting sucks now, but after this initial rush you'll be glad you didn't move. I was on a lower pop server to kick off Mists and it was a real bummer compared to the high pop one I'm currently on.
Ravencrest EU reporting in!
Queue has only moved ~1000 places in the last 2.5 hours, hate to think how high the end is now.
~4350. This has been your WoW Queue Report, brought to you by Sprint.
Real life money. $60 US. Applicable to any character. Characters at 60 or higher get all sorts of other benefits too, including all flight training, two level 600 professions, First aid at 600, higher end bags, etc. (all told, maybe 15-20k gold worth of stuff, at least).
Alternatively, the same boost is available with any WoD license as well.
Agreed, 100%. It was so depressing playing with nothing happening in the game, even if some of my friends are still on that server.
Chocolate & Vanilla
Fuck Strawberry
Garrison resource currency if I recall correctly. Each pot lasts an hour. Can't remember the cost for sure but I wanna say 100 resources.
Maleko Saint
Banned
I'd still like off Stormrage-US at this point. Really don't know why I've stayed there this long, but I think I'm ready to go back to a low population realm in general with how the game works now and such.
So kind of hoping they do offer free transfers, but no idea if they will or not.
I used to be that guy. Take it from me, don't be that guy.
With LFR, cross-realm guilds, and the new custom groups there is little point in being on a high pop server anymore.
Also every zone has a 100 level content, every zone also functions like Timeless isle with rares, treasures and sometimes random events (I didn't see many or get credit for events though so not sure). Quite a lot more work went into these zones than in any previous expansion.
Cross-Realm guilds, what?
And I mean, if you dig the fantasy of a lively, exciting world with a bustling economy, and like seeing players around in the world, it's a high pop realm for sure over the life of an expansion.
But yes, a lot of those things alleviate the problems.
Last night on Mal'Ganis I had 5500ish. I just closed the game and gave up.
Are they still wanting to keep the time it takes to get from 1-60 in vanilla to 1-Cap in all the expansions? If so, that makes sense.
Nah the last two expansions were rather short too. A lot of people blazed through Pandaria and I remember I got to 85 in Cata in 2 days without binging. Northrend was the last one that took more time.
Caffeine
Gold Member
AH are cross-realm too now lol.
They are?
I didn't even think the recent server mergers (like Suramar-Draka) mixed economies. I thought it was just a merging of the Alliance, Horde, and Neutral AHs on a single server.
Source?
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http://wowpedia.org/Connected_Realms
Says the AHs are unified on merged realms - makes sense - but yeah, is it more Cross-Realm than that now?
Guilds aren't server specific since connected realms happened. I think I'm the only person from my server in my current guild. And since the zones are cross-realm as well, even lower populated servers are lively. I see people all the time, even before this expansion.
High pop servers are good for taking screenshots of a 1000 people sitting on a quest giver or showing off how high your queue is, but outside of world PvP, which doesn't exist anymore, virtually all of the benefits of being on a packed server have been eliminated by Blizzard with additions over the past few expansions.
Pandaria felt excruciatingly long to me, I loved leveling in Cata. My friend and I actually quit after level 86 and didn't come back after 6 months later.
Those awful soulbound things with a 1 day cooldown will be the death of me. THIRTY of them are required for that thing, and that's not the only worthwhile engineering item that uses them!
Caffeine
Gold Member
no they're not...
edit: Yeah, like the link says. Basically only for merged/connected realms.
Caffeine
Gold Member
linked realms are.
As others are mentioning, I think that guilds are still confined to the realms that are connected, so 2 realms tops. Moreover, at least on Suramar-Draka, their combined, unified realm is still super fucking dead compared to high pop realms. It's like, unbelievably dead.
Also, didn't they say current level continents would never be CRZ? Like, Pandaria was never cross-realm before WoD hit, right? And that's really what I want; a busier realm, even out in the world.
I guess it depends on your playstyle, but I disagree. Economy and auction houses still aren't cross realm (shit was awful on my low pop server) finding quick groups for things like world bosses is easier (I can fill a world boss group in trade twice as quickly as I can with the raid finder) and I don't do LFR, so being able to find quality players for mythic is infinitely easier on an active realm.
And this is sort of a nebulous thing, but I just enjoy the world being active. It makes the game feel alive. When I came back for Mists to a low pop realm it was just a drag. It didn't feel like much of an MMO.
But some people may like that, so I don't mean to speak for everyone. I just think the permanent advantages of a highly active realm far outweigh the temporary negatives.
You're correct. No current CRZ in WoD.
All this, agreed. And also agreed that it's very subjective. In fact, I'm kind of happy that half my alt army is on a kind of dead realm. To experience both types of play.
Art Vandilay
Member
Well this is cool. I enjoyed hunting down rare spawns in Pandaria for drops like the shell that knocked people off their flying mounts.
Moonglade EU is the EU server with the shortest queue I've found: it should be around 700 right now. I'm going to try to get on there to delete a character and then create a character so my profile updates so the free character transfer page doesn't think I have a character logged in, and then transfer a character off Kazzak EU to Drak'thul EU or whatever the free transfer is.
This fucking game.
This fucking game.
Moff
Member
u wot?
I am definitely doing something wrong then, because I easily played 10 hours in the last three days and I am level 92. my server has no lag by the way.
!rule of thumb with servers is as follows:
If they're not up 5-10 minutes before they say they're going down, downtime will be extended. This never fails.
Yeah Pandaria is kinda slow at the beginning. However I hate leveling in Cata, I liked 80-82 in Hyjal but after that jesus, it was dreadful.
Caffeine
Gold Member
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same :|