Blizzard Resolves Grouping & Layering Issues on The Burning Crusade Anniversary Servers

Posted 2026/02/06 at 10:16 PM by PopularTopular

grouping and layering have been an issue

For the last 24 hours, we’ve been aware of and working to solve multiple issues affecting players who form parties intending to play on the same layer together. Today, we deployed some changes that we think helped the situation, and we’re continuing to look at every report we receive to hopefully find more adjustments or fixes that we can make.

There is one issue in particular that we want to call out: If you don’t see your party after walking through the Dark Portal, we strongly recommend that you stay on one side of the portal and do not continually walk back-and-forth through the portal. We’ve noticed players doing this and it appears to make you increasingly unlikely to get onto the same layer! We’re developing a fix for this particular issue and we expect to implement it next week, after thorough testing.

Thank you very much for your patience and understanding.

Comment by wachustill not working. RIPComment by BestStepBrothey are working to fix it, it's not resolved.
misleading title.Comment by magicottermewWe’re developing a fix for this particular issue and we expect to implement it next week, after thorough testing.Comment by Vivienwhy can't well known indie company fix lags in 2026Comment by RocteruenI dont pretend to know the intricacies of layering and the behind the scenes challenges, BUT both retail/classic needs a way to just pick which layer you want to be on and poof you go there. The only issue I see is too many people trying to go to the same layer and I dont have an answer for that, but we can already sort of choose where we want to go from the LFG tool its just convoluted.

Im mainly interested in this for rare hunting on retail, and questing for classic. I think I figured it out friends! LolComment by EsploratoreI dont pretend to know the intricacies of layering and the behind the scenes challenges, BUT both retail/classic needs a way to just pick which layer you want to be on and poof you go there. The only issue I see is too many people trying to go to the same layer and I dont have an answer for that, but we can already sort of choose where we want to go from the LFG tool its just convoluted.

Im mainly interested in this for rare hunting on retail, and questing for classic. I think I figured it out friends! LolComment by midnightbluThis completely ruined my plan to level both my char together. Thanks blizzard! Definitely content with my 15 a month for 20 years!