I don't get it, how do realm transfers affect game balance?
Mostly in the form of bored douchebags transferring to pvp realms after having spent the entirety of their leveling time on a safe pve realm in order to gank lowbies. I have two 70s on a pvp server, and I can tell you right now that people who think that being ganked during the leveling process doesn't set you back significantly in terms of time spent leveling are full of shit. Certain places are so bad that the only way to stop the ganker without a high level character or friend is to log off for an hour and hope they get bored. My horde characters milked the last "safe" zone, the barrens, till the mobs there turned gray, because grinding on green mobs was safer than dealing with the bwl geared dildos camping ashenvale and hillsbrad. People who didn't have to worry about being ganked while leveling have no right gank others who are leveling.