Invasion timers

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5am EST

who is going to be on and doing them at this time? I’ve literally missed all but one because this timing is silly.

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it does help some players, especially the Oceanic crowd.

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Isn’t it great? I love being at work or sleeping when these are up.

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I’ve been using Wowhead to set an alarm if I can make it. Lately they’ve been weird, almost never active during a U.S. weekday evening. Which doesn’t make sense considering where the servers are.

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I think it’s not too bad.

I would like to see some kind of heads up in game, so you can plan around it.

It feels wonky to either monitor the zones in game, or have to rely on third-party sites to know when events are going to happen in game.

Doesn’t the game have an in-game calendar? Maybe use that? Do something…anything.

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As someone else said, folks play the game all over the world, and even folks in the same country often have very different schedules. Each invasion lasts for 7 hours and the following invasion is 12 hours after the previous one ends.

[Edited to remove inaccurate invasion times. Apologies.]

I don’t think it’s bad at all. I would like to see it on the in game calendar, though.

[Edited to remove inaccurate invasion times. Apologies.]

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Totally agree, I easily got my completion achievement of doing all 6 different incursions today. Some days they line up to where I can do 2 invasions somedays I can’t get to any.

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Students out of school/college for holidays and those who don’t work morning hours…Plus others with different timezones,etc.

Everyone will miss one or so. EST isn’t the only timezone. They are at weird times + good times to help those across all timezones. There will always be times you’ll be able to do them and times you won’t. Just like Legion invasions. Nothing new here.

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The next incursion is at 6 AM PST. That’s not too bad.

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and lasts for 7 hours :smiley:

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Kinda reminds me of the Legion invasions that no one was on for because the times were whack.

maybe 3rd times the charm for the next one for the next expansion?

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But… The Legion invasion schedule is almost the same, except each invasion lasts 6 hours instead of 7. The active invasion time period still shifts each day to increase the chances that there’d be at least a few days per week that would accommodate most people’s schedules.

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Also, ppl are posting incorrect incuraion times in this tbread. You should look it up o. WoWHead just to be sure.

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You’re right. Wowhead says next is at 9am. Thank you. I’ll edit my posts.

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They seem like they are always in the worst times for usa/Canada people. not sure who made this crap.

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If they are going to tie real rewards to them (~370+ gear, service medals), they should just make them available for the whole day.

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I understand there are other time zones but you’d think they would have learned from Legion. They had the same issues. Then they fixed them. Here’s a thought… have the invasions happen based on the server times instead of the world times? Invasions will cater to the server"s local time instead of UTC timezone.

In Legion you had set up the timers differently for EU and US as evidence by wowhead article, “Legion Assaults spawn roughly 18 hours apart, on the hour or half-hour. NA and EU invasions spawn at different times.”

Please do this again at least.