[Discussion] Do data centers need to be merged/allow cross play?

[MariaArvana]

On the NA datacenters, very few people directly queue for EX trials due to the nature of them being very wipe-festy if people don't learn quick/don't know what they're doing/etc. They instead go to the PF since it allows them to unsync the fights and blitz them in a few minutes while giving little care to adhering to mechanics outside of instant kills due to being 10/20/30 levels higher and 100+ ilvls above the content.

EX primal queue times are a very, very bad metric to use in regards to how populated the game is, since outside of the rare person direct queueing them, the only people that inadvertedly get put into one are people coming through mentor roulette.

Also, Nidhogg can be 2/3 manned quite reasonably if all players are on their game and know what to expect. So you could go into PF or grab 2-3 friends and do some decently quick farms.