We really just need cross DC travel, if this was something the team said was possible but just not implemented because they wanted to wait on it. IDM if it's JP or NA, I come from NA servers and obviously the language barrier might be easier linking to NA but either way, being able to do almost all content with low ping and fellow OCE is great, but content that requires more people like ARaids, pvp, ocean fishing as examples would be nice (and those of us on rotating/opposing schedules could have somewhere to go to get PF content happening at odd times).

Any fix that keeps OCE servers segregated won't work. When Aussie servers dropped for WoD the servers themselves were chonky, but after the first few months outside of content that required you to put your group together like mythic raids I'd find myself back on NA groups with NA ping anyway.