Avernus Instances, Again.

bigman99

Once again there are instances popping up in Avernus that are completely unplayable due to the lag and rubberbanding effect, almost exactly the same way they were a couple months ago. When in one of these instances, it is impossible to interact with any npc, portal and hell my VIP window doesn't even show up. I would put the delayed reaction at about 10 seconds, then you snap back to where you were before. You can't zone out or vip signpost away, basically waiting for your two minute cooldown to change instances to come up. This problem is extremely serious, as it seems you didn't actually fix the problem before, you just mitigated the damage it does. But with the system you have come up with to get the Battle Worn Metal Rod, you have made people "max out" these Avernus instances that are clearly not able to handle the player load. Please fix these Avernus instances....Again. Instance #7 last night #55 this morning. If anyone else is having the same problem please post the instance.

nitocris83

We are looking at reports received over the weekend.

liadan1984

Looks like the hard cap for instances has changed to 18.
And now insurgencies are broken again.
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adinosii

Something really went wrong with the instances yesterday. Some eople got moved into empty instances over and over....my alliance chat channel had a flood of "can somebody invite me to a working insurgency" requests.

The other issue was that the server-wide Bel meter moved abnormally slowly. I had already gotten my 20% for the day and I got the rod from the insurgency bosses a while ago, but I am missing one boss kill achievement, so I am still doing them. However, after doing a string of 13 insurgencies , and only seeing the world-wide meter reach 45% I had enough and gave up for the day.

My guess is that the second issue is caused by the first (the number of non-working instances).

winkel

Either increase battle worn rod drop rate or let meter be that slow. There are literally 3 people who got battle worn rod in our alliance with hundred of active players (and two of them got it after slowdown). Now instances that randomly stopping working should be fixed asap.