Mission Accomplished! We Did IT!
Elapsed — Tue, 06/11/2013 - 22:31
Before I freak out in this blog, I will copy and paste the news off of wowhead.
New Feature: Virtual Realms
- Virtual Realms are sets of realms that are fused together, and will behave exactly as if they were one cohesive realm.
- Players on the same Virtual Realm will be able to join guilds, access a single Auction House, join arena teams and raids, as well run dungeons or group up to complete quests.
- Players belonging to the same Virtual Realm will have a (#) symbol next to their name.
Thanks to your hard work! and dedication! We did it! we Survived Gorgonnash dying!
This is what I called earlier as the solution I figured they would impliment, Cross Realm Everything. We will have new bodies to recruit, Our AH will live again! and you will be able to PUG in trade chat to your hearts content!
As a guild leader on a dead realm this is the best news I could have asked for. I'm so freaking excited! Get ready for new blood and new bodies everywhere!
I wont say much more on this here, But HELL YES WE WIN!
- Man Hug is 11/12
- PMS is 2/13 heroics
- Galaga 4/12
- and now Our Server will LIVE!
Congratulations to all of you!
Whoo!! Yeah!!!
Diyana — Sat, 06/15/2013 - 19:12Whoo!! Yeah!!!
Woot!
Brifalda — Sat, 06/15/2013 - 11:07This makes me very happy!
When this hits, lets try and
FireWire — Wed, 06/12/2013 - 16:24When this hits, lets try and get a giant group together to raid org!
If I can sell gems again on
chaca — Wed, 06/12/2013 - 15:19If I can sell gems again on an AH and make gold for my toon to craft expensive stuff (such as the stupid JC mounts), I'll be more than happy to embrace the negative aspects of this Virtual realms!
Ty Elapsed for all the personal effort you took in order to get our voice heard from Blizzard ;)
Thank you for the fantastic news!
badpenny — Wed, 06/12/2013 - 15:17Now maybe Galaga raid can get a few more geared folks in their MS so we don't have people playing their alt healers, OS healz and OS tank every night. It's been entertaining, but not ideal for progression. Regardless, I really enjoy my peeps and joining Downfall has been terrific for us. I'm glad we didn't realm transfer. Thanks for all the support.
This sounds very exciting. I
Jobs — Wed, 06/12/2013 - 12:22This sounds very exciting. I hope it all goes smoothly.
This takes a bit of the sting
Scaron — Wed, 06/12/2013 - 09:51This takes a bit of the sting out of the 3 faction / realm transfers I made over here in the past 2 months. I'm excited too.
I think that we'll see a whole host of real positives, probably even more real positives than negatives.
I'm curious how they'll handle realm overpopulation and horde : alliance imbalance. Perhaps battlegroups are very balanced already, I'm not positive, but I'm a little antsy about the feel of a realm like Illidan being able to pick me off. Granted, there would be a lot more alliance than there were there, too.
There are other things, that come with high pop servers, though, too. Things that I really don't miss about Illidan, and will miss about the Low-pop Gorgonnash. Most notably, flavor of the month raiders. You officers need to be prepared for that. The people who once were interested in sticking with a raid through thick and thin (as we do here for the most part) because there aren't a whole lot of other options are fewer and farther between. There are more players who are less experienced and ones with more experience can up and vanish for a more progressed raid at the drop of a hat.
I am presuming that there are things like queue times that you guys missed entirely from the start of MoP that hopefully will be sorted out properly. Let's put it this way, to avoid a 5 hour queue I had to keep my account logged in game for 18 hours a day. Realm underpopulation sucks, and it sucks almost as much as overpopulation.
With all that said, I'm excited too. Of course, maybe 'cautiously optimistic' is a better term.
As someone who has been here
Elapsed — Wed, 06/12/2013 - 13:15As someone who has been here since TBC and stuck through with (with a short sabatical for SWTOR) I can say I will take ALL of the negs very happily just to see life again. Queue time's (as I understand this practice) wont be an issue. Dont think as you're logging onto Rampage, You will still be logging into Gorg, there will just be the other realms present too.
I'm curious (because battlegroups are not balanced horde/ally) how they will balance them, OR if it will even be the "battlegroup" "merged"
I can't wait for the AH to have stuff again.. from old world patterns for professions, to real prices for stuff we use on a daily basis.
Like I said, I think the good
Scaron — Wed, 06/12/2013 - 15:25Like I said, I think the good will outweigh the bad. I just think that not being properly prepared for the type of raider that you're likely to encounter will lead to a lot of frustration and disappointment if you're not prepared for it.
Regardless of how they merge
Mehguy — Wed, 06/12/2013 - 13:50Regardless of how they merge the servers/battlegroups, there will still be a lot of horde heavy Virtual Realms.
Thats just my opinion. Take into account the type of realm (PvP, PvE, RP, etc) and all the possible Alliance or Horde heavy servers that have tons of alts or toons that arent active anymore. So "theoretically" we could get matched with a few unlucky servers and have a perfect 50/50 balance number wise, but still get screwed on balance due to inactive accounts/alts that are never played.
Either way, it'll still be a TON better than we have now.
I'm not looking forwards to having to fight for herbs/mining nodes for when I do farm, etc. BUT I am most looking forward to a much improved AH/economy.
I suspected something was up
Aeolyn — Wed, 06/12/2013 - 09:13I suspected something was up when they did the character transfer sale. Demand for that is going to take a nose dive.
Prepare for more mounts and pets to hit the Blizz Store to compensate.
Oh. And IN YOUR FACE, PEOPLE WHO WANTED US TO MASS REALM TRANSFER!
This is amazing.
Atar — Wed, 06/12/2013 - 09:10This is amazing.
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Kymmu — Wed, 06/12/2013 - 05:46Oh My Good!!!!!!!!!!!! Fucking finally!!!!!!!
So they merging Stormwind/etc
saedo — Tue, 06/11/2013 - 22:48So they merging Stormwind/etc too? Or keep those seperate?
everything, the whole
Elapsed — Tue, 06/11/2013 - 22:56everything, the whole battlegroup (as far as I can tell and predicted) will be a realm now
Ah, so Gorg is officially
saedo — Wed, 06/12/2013 - 01:06Ah, so Gorg is officially dead and the organs are harvested. Long live what's the battlegroup called anyways?
Rampage
Elapsed — Wed, 06/12/2013 - 01:07http://www.wowwiki.com/Battlegroup_US_Rampage
This is presuming that it will be the battlegroup they make the "mega-realms" out of. It would make the most sense to me, but we wont know until they give us more info
They have the technology,
garreth — Tue, 06/11/2013 - 23:03They have the technology, it's awesome to see it come together like this. Hell, even the concept of battlegroups might be gone in a few years if the pace of processing power keeps up ;) Well, they'll still probably keep those battlegroups up for timezones, now that I think about it.
<Downfall> beat WoW ... I
garreth — Tue, 06/11/2013 - 22:45<Downfall> beat WoW ... I never thought I'd live to see this day. Holy shit. We beat WoW ...
But seriously, grats to the hard work and dedication of this guild to stick through these lean times. I'm extremely proud of the people that didn't bail, but stuck it out as Gorgonnash heaved its final breaths.