Update on the Battle for Ashenvale and Layers - 14/12/2023

It’s still bugged, just had the number of keepers of the grove go from 1/3 to 2/3 and now the priestess of the moon is immune and we can’t do anything. Wild Growth - EU @ 22:44 ST

Okay, yeah you bois have bugged it.

Revert to a few days ago, you probably went a few hotfixes too far and completely borked it.

40 mins queues in Solo Shuffle, 4-5 h “queues” for the event. Like are they f-ing with us at this point?

What has happend to this event, takes hours and hours to make it pop off. Cant even play it since i cant sit all day at the computer.

This is so true.

Really poor changes. Broke the game to fix a small problem. Please revert :\

Dead layers, 8h+ to start ashenvale event. Would gladly take some random layering to have the fun back…

The fix that made it worse… hours upon hours of waiting…

00:25 we’re at 99%
Very QoL Change much fun such wow

So how many battles per 24h was after 1h before what is now 3 ,and why % are so slowly ?

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7 hours between 2 Ashenvale events in Living Flame today :
11:00, 17:00, 00:34. It’s just unplayable.

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We wad this morning bug again one of the leaders was immune and others reset themselves on Horde! % is so slow is unplayable and one of the towers gets to 0% . I really hate how it turned out. Economy on SoD is insane and this pvp event could give us upgrades instead of giving 40g on some items in worst case what I saw some items r up to 800gold.
People r insane with pricing and honestly on 25 lv is just stupid, talking in lfg asking ilv and gs as well :rofl:

stop ignoring us and make a new blue post or something or answer us!!. you know damm well these changes are unacceptable. 2 events on a entire day… this is ridiculous and you know it. revert back these changes and revert back the hotfixes you did almost 4 days ago when the bugg started to happen and problem solved. its one of your hotfixes that messed it up in the first place

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Sounds like the focus on making the battles start simultaneously is done with good intent. However, I believe that you should instead make the ramp-up phase start simultaneously across the layers. It feels like this would solve many of the problems mentioned in the post and will also make the battles start at the same time. The progress bars would be synced and the retiring of layers obviously needs more granularity. Like in the example adding/reducing 25% to the total progress sum for additional/reduced layers would make little sense if a layer had 6 active players. This however would be a minor issue since all battles are already completed.

If they want people not layer jumping, isn’t an “Exhausted - Recently participated in battle.” debuff or similar better? Make it 15 mins, which prevents players from earning additional rep from doing another battle back-to-back. If somehow people still had the debuff when ramp-up phase finishes, the debuff would have to be removed.

I really wish we could keep retiring layers, it makes the world feel more alive. From the post I assume when not retiring layers, newly logged on players gets uniformly divided across all layers? Personally I would prefer filling one layer at a time (even though there are 10 more available), and when that get’s full, split it in two. Ofc this would probably require some fundamental changes to have the layers are built, but still.

Regarding the problem of layers getting full. It sounds like the entire group/raid needs to be moved to a different layer simultaneously. If all battles start at the same time, this probably wouldn’t be an issue (from a player’s perspective at least), unless done mid battle. From a developer’s perspective though, moving 40 players which most probably some are in combat, might be a challenge. I can also see how this could potentially present problems for other outdoor events in the future.

Well servers are down. Lets hope it’s gonna be fixed. It was a weird solution to begin with.

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Is it known for how long? I’m playing SoD

prob 40 min

No banner or blue post, so no idea.

7 hours to battle what they done omg,so Rip to all of our alts,battle was every 1h why they touch that in the 1st place can’t belive

@Syphora:

They made more adjustments.

To answer your question, too short time difference caused problems, too.

Thanks Trelw so now is like 2-3 h between battles or i am wrong