World of Warcraft: Classic

Given that there's only like 10 servers instead of 40 I don't think any of them are really going to be that dead

xzi said:

Given that there's only like 10 servers instead of 40 I don't think any of them are really going to be that dead

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I can't even imagine how the areas are going to be when they remove layering in phase 2 or whenever unless the population drops off dramatically before then. Private servers had what, 10k or so players max online at a time? Quick math and conservative estimates show us that each server should exceed that number easily.

misery said:

I can't even imagine how the areas are going to be when they remove layering in phase 2 or whenever unless the population drops off dramatically before then. Private servers had what, 10k or so players max online at a time? Quick math and conservative estimates show us that each server should exceed that number easily.

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5000 MAN IRONFORGE RAID

mkopec said:

Beaten? Sure. Shattered? Yeah, I dont think so. There is only so much exp you can get per hour bro. No matter how hard and long you go. Im going with booze on this one probabaly 20 or so hours shaved.

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I’d argue that beating the speed run record by 20% is shattering it. It’ll happen though, if you watch Joana’s speedrun video from his 4d20h run he really is not nearly as minmax as you would think. Speedrunners today are a lot more efficient in regards to moving towards an objective while killing mobs, they will have guilds supporting them with bags, consumes, summons/ports, etc.

The main reason a week 1 Rag kill will be possible this time around is because of dungeon leveling. Most classes are capable of beating or matching Joana’s old hunter time in Classic but war/pal/priest will struggle. Melee cleave dungeon groups doing SM from 30-40 can bring those classes and get them levels significantly faster than they would if they were soloing. Also, SM is one instance with four wings so whoever said they’d run into lockouts is dumb. You clear GY and part of Lib 5 times per hour at first, then you switch to Lib and part of Arm after a few levels, etc. The beta had level restrictions but based on what people did in RFC, WC, Stockades, and SM the same methods will likely work in Mara and BRD.

I do agree that people ganking the raids attempting week 1 MC either after they get the ubrs FR buff or on the island in Azshara when they are summoning the same 1-2 people back and forth to douse runes would be hilarious though.

I can live through queues as it usually means very healthy server for its entirety. I'd rather have queues now, then a low-medium pop server later.

Queues give you time to do your chores.

Dom said:

Flight paths will be the time for those

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Plan your leveling route's flight to un'goro for when you need to microwave those Pizza Bagels

30 min ques would be nothing. I'm expecting hour+ long ques.

Arbitrary said:

I joked about it before but rerolling to a different server isn't really necessary. Let other folks be the ones that swap to the new server.

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It's mostly uncommitted casuals who stare at a queue on day 1 and then decide to play on a different server. Stalagg will be empty before Halloween.

Please don’t

I honestly feel like all this streamer gate, long queues, etc stuff is just the result of everybody having to wait around for so long to get in to the game for the first time (again). I think that everybody is overthinking this whole thing. The hype and long wait is causing major theory crafting and mass hysteria.

Will there be long queues on day one? Yes. That was going to happen no matter what for a game doing it's first classic server experience with a fan base of 10 million+.

Will the queues calm down? Yes. Of course they will. Give it a week, and things will be normalized. I personally don't think there will be a mass cancellation of people to cause it, but rather the average player will lower their amount of time in game per day, and that will cause a normalization of login queues.

Will there be toxicity? Yes. It's World of Warcraft. This is to be expected. Ignore it, and move on.

Will there be streamers causing disruptions in the areas of the world they are playing in? Yes. It likely wont effect you in the least. It's not like they can be in all parts of the vast world that makes up WoW at all times. On top of that, a large portion of the time people spend in WoW is in dungeons. WoW dungeons are not public, so guess what. No streamer disruptions for you in those dungeons.

Will there be large private server guilds racing through the content waving their over grown epeens around? Duh. Of course. Does that mean jack shit to you and me? It shouldn't. If it does, then you probably need to rethink your life choices.

TL;DR .... chill out. Everything is going to be fine. See ya on Whitemane.

Isn't the point of layering to remove the existence of queues?

Nope, layering removed congestion in zones

Can someone explain to me the benefit of going white man over, say, skalagg or whatever? Massive population counts mean what exactly? If you are rolling in with a forum zerg so what if there are more or less plebs around. Do you actually expect the quit rate to be so bad that the raid scene is dry? I can't picture it. Going to whitemane (or herod) is basically getting a ton more barrens chat and main city /duel autism at the cost of expected queues. Why?

Edit - meant to quote Pharone but phone owned. My point was that even if the bad isn't that bad, I fail to see any good to offset it. Besides the best name.