Phasing randomly

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15 minutes waiting for Rustfeather to spawn, it spawns, I announce it in general chat like a good citizen, and 5 seconds later I’m phased away into a phase where it isn’t up.

I didn’t join a group, I wasn’t invited, just randomly phased, happens pretty often in warmode lately.

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It is so annoying when this happens on rares, especially mount dropping ones.

I’ve had it too, not on Rustfeather so far.

I would guess, and I have to stress it’s a guess, it’s them trying to balance shards. But I do not know.

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I had it once happen in middle of fighting a rare (arachnoid harvester), it was half health and poof suddenly i stand there with no rare no other players. Did not join group or do anything else either that would prompt phasing, just was normally fighting the rare. :exploding_head:

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happens to me a lot with chests, there they are, head over, disappears, move out of the zone, go back, its there again and I can loot it this time … sharding/phasing whatever it is, needs to go.

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Now i am wondering if it is phasing issue or is it issue with sharding. Because in my case i described earlier (being suddenly phased/sharded in middle of fighting a rare) there was nothing that could cause phasing. I was not moving (so couldn’t have wandered into phased questing area or such), i did not accept or abandon quest etc. I was just standing still hitting mob.

On phasing things you usually see the “disappeared object” when you move further or such. In my case i was just suddenly in different shard on Mechagon, all people around me fighting the are were gone so was rare. I was standing alone next to angry troggs.

I am suspecting something is wrong with the sharding. Is the game maybe moving non groupped players to different shards when people join groups and one shard gets full (cause naturally cannot move group members)? Is that new warmode balancing affecting also non warmode side, sharding people randomly so there would be equal amount of horde and alliance?

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Something similar happened to me earlier aswel. Saw a supply chest fly into Nazjatar, announced location in general and suddenly while waiting for it to reach the ground I phased out and it was gone… the fuq :scream:

Besides people gathering around it there was nothing going on.

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I had chest and ore phasing away

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id imagine it was sharding, precisely as you’ve described … a big group moves in, pushes the limit for players over the maximum and then all the singles to drop the number below or equal to the maximum then get shunted to a new one

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It would make sense. And when i have earlier had simple phasing issues it has always been just some item (herb, ore, chest etc.) disappearing when going close to it. Never like this when mob i am middle of fighting and other people around me just go poof. This looked exactly how it looks when you join a group and it puts on your same shard (everyone disappears, new people appear) except i did not join any group (or leave any group).

If this is the case it is definately bug and can get pretty annoying especially in situations when camping rare or such. Scary.

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that’s why I play on low pop server, we all have 1 shard xD
nowhere to phase out really

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At least you didn’t cause an entire raid to phase from a winning Nazjatar battle into a 50:2700 losing one.

I’m glad nobody knew it was (probably) me that caused it. Great tech.

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Had the same happen to me, we were just about to spawn the Doppel Gang rare, all 3 valves were put in place and poof, suddenly I’m in another phase.

So annoying, especially since I already used the relief valve you get from a quest that was up that day.

If someone zones in and makes the shard unbalanced, it should really be that person that gets sharded instead of some other random person in that shard.

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That’s surprisingly accurate to the reactions in the raid once people started noticing the score board.

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