MoP Classic Phase 2 Launches September 23rd
After a period of silence on the subject, World of Warcraft's Senior Game Producer, Tom Ellis, has revealed that they have been assessing the options and has shared his initial findings and current plan!
Tom Ellis
Ok, thanks to
@Artemishowl_
badgering I'm looking at Classic MoP realm health options. Overall things look healthy, couple of small outliers, but I do see the opportunity for something spicy and so far everyone seems to be on board, not realm connections sadly. While we did originally intend and plan on connecting up all the Classic realms for you the never ending stream of WoW caught up with us and we no longer have the bandwidth to pull those off.
Hypothetically, after our success running the entire of Season of Discovery and Anniversary on effectively one realm, what would you think about the entire of MoP Classic living on one giant realm? Hypothetically.
While everyone would have access to mega-servers for Classic progression, Ellis also shared some news about how the overall server structure could change:
Tom Ellis
Everyone so far seems on board so I think I can just reveal my plan so far and you can take this opportunity to yell at me.
For the US -
All PvP realms become PvE and closed to new characters.
Sorry, your 100% Horde/Alliance realm isn't a PvP realm, lets stop pretending.
I'll open Free Character Moves from all realms to one single destination realm, we add a boatload of hardware to that realm and let the chaos commence.
At the same time, Grobbulus-US is a faction balanced and enforced realm, I'll open FCMs from the old-ex PvP realms to Grob, if you want to actually PvP that will be an option for you. Warning, there are actually two factions on this PvP realm, beware. This specific link might turn on and off for each faction as we monitor faction balance on Grob.
For the EU -
All realms go PvE (there isn't a single PvP realm in EU that isn't 100% one faction), we open transfers to one single mega realm destination.
EU does still have a few healthy FR, DE and RU realms, we'll have those merge into one each. We could merge these into a single realm as we did in SoD/Anni but will likely wait and see on this one for community reaction.
KR/TW -
Not forgotten, just already condensed.
I'm also looking at bringing in the date that we use for name consolidation so that as many names are available on the destination realm as possible.
As a recap, here's what could change for each Region's servers:
NA Realms
All PvP Realms, except Grobbulus, will become PvE and will be closed to new characters.
Players will receive Free Character Transfers to the new PvE mega-server, or Grobbulus for PvP.
Grobbulus will continue to enforce Faction Balance.
EU Realms
All Realms will become PvE.
Players will receive Free Character Transfers to the new PvE mega-server.
French, German, and Russian-speaking servers will maintain one realm each.
What do you think of the possibility of mega servers coming to Mists of Pandaria Classic? How will this impact World PvP? Let us know your thoughts in the comments down below!
