r/classicwow • u/Dwarni • 1d ago

Classic 20th Anniversary Realms @Blizzard: Please implement zone wide layers

The current server-wide layering system creates a frustrating imbalance across Azeroth. While leveling zones like The Barrens or Desolace are practically deserted (where even 3 layers feel excessive), end-game zones are severely overcrowded.

This overcrowding particularly impacts valuable resource farming:

  • Winterfall Firewater farmers competing in Winterspring
  • Rich Thorium Veins in zones like Un'Goro and Winterspring
  • High-level herbs like Plaguebloom and Black Lotus
  • Valuable mob grinding spots for Essence of Water/Fire/Air

With everyone packed into the same few profitable zones, what should be enjoyable farming sessions turn into frustrating competition. A zone-specific layering system (allowing 10+ layers in high-traffic areas while reducing layers in quieter zones) would help distribute the population more effectively, making the experience more reminiscent of original Vanilla WoW where you'd regularly encounter others during leveling, without the current extreme overcrowding in farming zones.

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u/SeriousDude 1d ago

Zone layering is not possible on PVP servers.

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u/Chronia82 1d ago

Why would this not be possible? Seeing that it has been available on retail pvp servers since they implemented the tech, which was well before classic even released

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u/SeriousDude 1d ago

Never played retail, how does it work when you are on the border of the zone, do both players stay in the layer until they are certain distance away? I guess i see it working, but surely it feels scuffed.

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u/Chronia82 1d ago

Not sure now, as its been a while since i pvp'd in warmode on a exact zone boundary. But when i last did (i think in BFA, due to the assassin system that was then introduced at quite a bit of fun), you wouldn't layer when in combat, but only after combat.

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u/thatyousername 20h ago

Right so consider you are waiting at the edge of a zone and see someone off in the distance on the other zone. As they run closer to you they magically poof away because they layer as they enter your zone. Does that happen?

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u/Chronia82 12h ago edited 12h ago

I haven't noticed it myself i think, but i have to say, i also haven't been looking out for it. But i'd reckon in theory if the layer you are on is overcrowded and there is a spillover layer available for the zone you are in, and they are crossing over into your zone could be a possibility that they layer into the spillover layer and not your layer. As that is what the system ultimately is designed for, balancing out player numbers between multiple instances of the same zone.