Yesterday afternoon I ran this with my husband. We share an internet connection.
We did the first four quests, and came up the dock to the submarine.
When I boarded the sub, my client crashed. His did not.
When I restarted Wow, it showed my character as nowhere. So I logged into another character, logged out, and was able to log into the one doing the invasion.
I was on the dock. I was able to board the sub: However, there was no progress on the quest. I would shoot things and not gain any percent to completing it.
I reloaded my UI. That did not fix it.
I left the sub, got into another one. And that did not fix it.
My husband said, abandon the quest: so I did that.
And that wiped out all of my advancement towards the final quest. I then had only one invasion quest left in the zone, and thus could not do four quests to advance to the sub mission.
I submitted a ticket in game, and was told,
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Due to the way that World Quests work, it is intended that they aren’t restored if the assault quest is abandoned. If there aren’t enough World Quests left and the quest is abandoned, it won’t be possible to complete it anymore.*"
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So I get that, but still: the fact that the assault quest was stuck, and I was not able to move on, is still a problem. Since we were both using the same ISP and connection, it was clearly something in how the game read my character that caused my crash, not our internet connection.
And then, once it had crashed, there seems to be a problem with the game remembering, for lack of a better phrase, where my character was in advancing towards the final goal.
Finally, for those of us who have to work around lots of things so as to participate in an invasion, to have that wiped out really, really sucks. And to be told, yeah sorry, we can’t help you? That’s really not cool.
shrug.