So, there is something majorly wrong with 10man raid lockouts, when trying to share them to above 10 people.
We had a set of 10 people go in and kill omnitron on normal. Two days later we come back, and we have another setup ready for hc where we have swapped 3 (completely unsaved) people around.
The three new people can enter as long as the raid is normal, but the raid can’t be swapped to hc because it says the three new people are locked to “another bwd HC”. Now we have everyone go out, we swap the instance to HC before entering, and rejoice as the three new people now get the “do you want to be saved to an instance that has 1/6 bosses killed etc”-message. They accept, and we do a try on HC magmaw. We wipe, corpserun, and now the three people cant enter the instance, as they are “locked to another HC bwd” again. We notice that we don’t have the same raid ID anymore. We can go back to normal and then everyone can enter, but the IDs for HC blocks of from swapping to HC, and notefor the record, we have not even killed a single hc boss in this instance yet.
we say “screw this” and decides to go to back to Bastion of twillight instead, where we have already killed Halfus and Valiona on HC, two days past. We bring in the 3 new people there, and they dont even get a message if they want to get saved. Doesn’t stop them from entering this time, instead 5ish second after entering they get teleported to the nearest graveyard, with the message “you are already saved to another bastion of twillight hc”, without ever having set foot in the instance. They didnt even get an ID this time, they just got ported out when entering. We went out swapped it to normal, had people relog a bunch of time, and X amount of tries later all three manages to enter without getting ported. We then procced to clear the last two (council and chogal) on normal, as the swap to hc was prevented.
It is easy to say that something is completely broken about the system that shares raid IDs atm. Obviously I only know about 10man and not 25. This would also not affect any group that stays the same 10, and just blasts through everything on normal.
Any group that does a mix of normals and heroics, and are also swapping people in and out for various bosses are getting completely wrecked by this, to the point where the game simply doesnt work to play.
We even managed to replicate the issue with some new dinged 85s that we tried to share IDs to (we warned them first).
I found similar posts on the US forum regarding this, you know, as they actually have a “bug section” amongst their forums.
We are 13 raiders in our 10man raid guild, and we rotate players in and out on a boss by boss basis, depending on who needs loot or optimizing setups for certain HCs. With this bug, we would need to stay with the exact same 10 people if we wanted to try hc bosses, and god forbid that anyone DCs or cant make a raid, as the ID sharing is wrecked.
This completely breaks our way of raiding, or playing the game. Extremely demoralizing to have this occour on the first progression week, and I doubt any of us will continue playing if this isnt fixed over the next couple of days.