Yeah screw open world stuff. Not worth this type of headache.
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We were farming scrolls for the achievement in forbidden reach and it sharded us 5 times in less than 1.5 hours.
Purely absurd
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There have been multiple threads on this, including one from a Community Council member, that have been completely ignored by Blizzard. Not a single word on them looking in to it or anything. It’s beyond frustrating that this is the type of nonsense they expect people to put up with.
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This has been going on for YEARS and honestly I am shocked it has never been addressed and continues to be ignored. I cannot overstate how infuriating it is that I am supposed to be playing in this big, immersive world and almost half the time that I try to approach an herb to gather it, it shards out of existence, or mobs just disappear and I get sharded (without even joining or leaving a group).
It is a massive issue that the world doesn’t feel real or stable.
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Careful guys, or you might get sharded into another thread
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^^THIS^^
I have this happen almost EVERY time I’m out in the world doing something. In the span of 1 hour last night - Got a dream portal to 100%. Got boss to 1/2 hp. Phased into a shard with no portal even active. Went over to the water chest in the Plains - got the whole event almost done. Boss spawns and I shard into no chest. Went to go mining and get sharded IN THE MIDDLE of mining a node 3 times.
I don’t even want to go do anything anymore …cause what’s the point? Can’t get anything done …
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Do you have an addon that shows you’re being sharded? For nodes in particular it could be that the node itself is saying adios. I’ve gone to grab herbs, see several on the minimap and each time I get to one it disappears, I still see the others until I fly over and those disappear one by one. I know they have it to where multiple can get mats from the same node, but they also will despawn eventually. I don’t know if it’s a certain amount of times a node has been collected from or if it’s a timer from when it was first collected from, but sometimes it seems like you’re just following someone else’s trail (and it’s giving the middle finger every time you try to collect mats).
A few months ago, I used the long-CD Elusive Creature bait…then was sharded away from the spawn 
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This thread needs to become a 3,000+ comment thread.
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omg lol xD
I mean you aren’t wrong.
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Phasing has always been a mess. You might not notice if you don’t do world content in a group, but there is cata phasing that was introduced that long ago that behaves badly.
In every zone where you have to complete a questline for the world to change and let you learn a flightmaster, or a storyline that changes a little part of the world, there is phasing that will dismount a low level player from their ride, and they can’t even be retrieved. If you’ve done a certain questline and your party member hasn’t, you two can never meet in that microcosm.
Yet people keep asking for more phasing, which is what we get when they utilize old zones to insert new max level content.
And don’t get me started on broken flight points that stop working because you overleveled them, although I feel that the fact flight points work in Uldum and the Vale suggests they could fix the broken ones in Arathi Highlands and the Undercity but have chosen not to.
I don’t have a feeling that there is a solution to this.
In the last event I was waiting for the spawn in Stormwind on Sentinels, grouped with a player from Zul’jin. There was a decent number of players waiting, and as the timer ticked down, suddenly we were both sharded to the Zul’jin server, where there were 2 players. I was able to dissolve the group and reform it to get us back on Sentinels. But wth?
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+1
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One of the now-former community council members started a thread on this a while back.
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This has been a huge problem throughout the years. It doesn’t take a genius to realize Blizzard is using this as a crutch rather than upgrade their servers to handle higher player counts all at once.
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Was a band aid fix for a gaping wound that are dead realms, and bleeding subscriber base. Said it many times in other threads before that crz, and it’s offspring shards, phasing etc was the worst thing they did to this game imo.
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I don’t use a shard addon. I experience it de-spawning after someone else mined it all the time. At least once I know it was sharding cause I watched the animals around me vanish and reappear over yonder. The other two may or may not have been despawns. But by that point im like 5 new shards in and pissed off … so the other two I’m calling shards for spite regardless lol.
It’s almost definitely on a timer. Fairly short. maybe 15 sec or so.
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we’ll still have this ridiculous sharding going into TWW. They won’t look at it as a serious issue.
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I’m surprised this isn’t getting more traction. The current state of sharding is getting out of hand.
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I have an idea, merge those dead servers then. Sharding/X-realm was the worst idea and “solution” they could come up with that negatively affected everyone else.
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It was either fix the game bugs and issues or implement Plunderstorm outside of regular play to distract everyone that there were main game problems
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