Which zones are cross realm now

Cross-realm zones were intended to make lower level zones feel less empty, but may also impact other more populated zones. With more populated areas, we're aware of concerns over increased competition for resource nodes as well as quest and rare mob spawns.

This is something that we're in the process of evaluating. We've already taken some steps to address it by increasing the spawn rates of most rare spawns. If a zone becomes too populated, we're capable of adjusting how many realms are able to connect to it. Just keep in mind that we do choose spawn times of creatures and profession nodes with a certain zone population in mind -- CRZ affords us the ability to better maintain those populations.

The Wandering Isle, the pandaren starting area, will also not have CRZ enabled at launch, though we'll have multiple instances of this zone running as needed for each realm, in an attempt to prevent overcrowding. Low Population Concerns Cross-realm zones are the first step toward improving the play experience when leveling on a low-population server. The world will be more populated, opening up the possibility for you to make BattleTag friends who you can then invite on future adventures.

World of Warcraft is meant to be a massively multiplayer role-playing game, so we want to give players on lower population realms access to a larger community to play with. Cross-realm zones won't fix economy-related issues for lower populated realms and it wasn't intended to. Regarding the suggestions for a cross-realm auction house, this is something we can evaluate at a future date. However, great care must be taken and we must carefully evaluate its impact on realm economies if such a change were to occur.

In addition to the hotfixes that have already been applied to help streamline the player experience, we have some additional hotfixes on the way to address some of the known bugs. Tol Barad and Wintergrasp Concerns We unfortunately didn't identify some of the issues with these PvP zones because these areas didn't see much activity during the beta testing period. An early bug allowed players from multiple realms to participate in Tol Barad and Wintergrasp battles, or quest in these zones in between battles; however, this has been addressed and these zones should never be coalesced.

We'll consider offering full CRZ functionality for these zones in a future patch when we can solve some of the logistical issues coalescing initially brought about. I'm frustrated by Blizzard's process or policy. Thanks for your feedback! Share This Article. Cross Realm Party How to group with friends who play on another realm and limitations for cross-realm parties. Click to watch this video in a web browser. English US. Contact Us. Site Map. Learn more about the Free Trial.

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Can we get some alliance friendly crz?