Wednesday (10 Feb) - It's Deja Vu All Over Again

Wednesday (10 Feb) - It's Deja Vu All Over Again

The massive lag and interminable login problems have not gotten any better since the last maintenance 10 days ago, and that despite almost daily rolling restarts for emergency "fixes" that haven't fixed anything. Blizzard is ignoring the fact that this started after last week's maintenance, assuring us that they are working hard to fix the problems resulting over "the past two days" (ie, since the maintenance done this current week).

Last night (Wednesday) it took Wild four tries and three disconnects at the "blue bar" (the last stop before getting in game) to login. It took the MM group until 6:40pm to get a ten man together despite all of us starting the login process by 5:30pm.

The guild 25 man had those problems as well as a new wrinkle that wasn't expected. More than thirty raiders had signed up for the raid, 11 of them healers. Even with the server issues, there were more raiders in game than they could accommodate, although some of them had their spots held open as they fought their way online, a tougher battle than the ones they were going to face in the raid. There was confusion and at least one complaint, but guild leaders responded Thursday morning on the website to explain the situation, and it appeared that they did the best they could. They never got to ICC, but did kill two bosses in VoA before things further unraveled.

As the MM group was waiting for their 10th raider to join, and at the same moment that the second boss in VoA was falling to the guild, the Silvermoon server finally had enough and crashed. It was the only server crash according to the server listing that can be accessed from the login screen, and in fact those on us chatting on vent were able to go to other servers where they had alts and had no trouble at all logging in. Even Wild checked two servers where there are low level Wild family members. The server was working fine, and the toons were delighted to get even the short drive by.

There was no raiding for Wild. Shades of past server problems come to mind, when full queues and long login times was an almost normal occurrence. I really hope it doesn't get that bad.

Much, much later in the evening Philly got in game, did her dailies, and is now 83% of the way to level 72.

However, "the hand" suffered a setback and has been bothering me. I've been told to take it easier or I might wind up with a new set of stitches. Sigh. That may stop my raiding tonight. Maybe.