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Winter Wonderland: how to separate the inactive from the active instances (suggestions?)
fleetcaptain5
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Most missions in Winter Wonderland tend to go a lot better if there are more players helping:
With Kramp'irhi, opening presents is easier if you're not the only target available to him. Snowball Fight will go faster. Tide of Ice will be more enjoyable if you're not facing the hordes alone.
I think most of us, therefore, tend to switch to more populated instances when we want to play these events.
The problem is: a heavily populated instance doesn't have to be an active one. I've been in instances with the max number of players where only two or three people (myself included) were actually playing. Everyone else would be either doing business on the Exchange, dancing on the Services table or just be AFK wherever.
I don't have an easy solution in mind, but for next year's event it would certainly be an improvement if players got an easy way of determining whether an instance is actually filled with active players, or with a lot of bank managing ones.
Any suggestions? Preferably non-punishing ones. We all have our own reasons for being on the map, but it would be nice if the players playing the missions could easily know which instances to switch to.
With Kramp'irhi, opening presents is easier if you're not the only target available to him. Snowball Fight will go faster. Tide of Ice will be more enjoyable if you're not facing the hordes alone.
I think most of us, therefore, tend to switch to more populated instances when we want to play these events.
The problem is: a heavily populated instance doesn't have to be an active one. I've been in instances with the max number of players where only two or three people (myself included) were actually playing. Everyone else would be either doing business on the Exchange, dancing on the Services table or just be AFK wherever.
I don't have an easy solution in mind, but for next year's event it would certainly be an improvement if players got an easy way of determining whether an instance is actually filled with active players, or with a lot of bank managing ones.
Any suggestions? Preferably non-punishing ones. We all have our own reasons for being on the map, but it would be nice if the players playing the missions could easily know which instances to switch to.
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Wasn't Cones a TFO originally? I vaguely remember going up to the snow globe village and activating it to join or something like that was a decade ago.
> For Tides of Ice and Cones of Conduct it would be nice if they were TFOs and you teleported into an instance with a good number of people.
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> Wasn't Cones a TFO originally? I vaguely remember going up to the snow globe village and activating it to join or something like that was a decade ago.
No, that was Winter Invasion.
Still is I believe. I just don't know how active that queue is.
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