Is phasing still a thing? Several times in the last few days I’ll be in the middle of fighting stuff and it all randomly disappears and new mobs show up. It’s happened at least 3 times in the last 2 hours. Just wondering, it’s annoying when doing events to transition somewhere that isn’t having the same event. I’m doing this all solo, no groups. TIA
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Been seeing people talking about having that issue quite a bit recently, gotta imagine people been putting in tickets at this point but who knows if it’s being worked on or not
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I just watched ‘The Flash’ movie the other day, so this thread has me thinking of phasing in that sense… like phasing through walls.
I wanna phase through the stable walls all sneaky like and thwack Hogrus in the rump, then quickly phase back out before he can get me.
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Well, I saw half the people waiting for the last Big Dig I was at disappear at once, so, pretty sure. Although that’s more likely sharding.
I’ve also been running into a lot more of mobs and bodies vanishing if I, like, take two steps to the right and coming back if I take two steps to the left. Mostly it’s in the multi-expansion mess outside Org, but I also ran into it in the Azure Span earlier today. Not sure if that’s phasing or sharding.
But yeah, phasing and sharding are still a thing. Probably sharding. Phasing is usually the world being different depending on where you are in a quest chain.
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Aren’t they the same thing?
I get confused about this. Sharding has been explained to me but I’m not tech savvy and have no idea what phasing means.
Phasing is usually the world being different depending on where you are in a quest chain, like were NPCs are or if there’s, like, a battle going on that isn’t going on outside of the quest chain, that sort of thing. Sharding is mostly people being put in a different instance of the world due to the number of players in an area being too high or too low.
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I was organizing some stuff in my guild bank Orgrimmar the other day, and every few minutes the guild bank would close and I’d move to a different shard (NPCs would move, and I’d see a new set of players.) This was on a high pop server.
So, yes, sharding is doing stupid stuff again.
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Ah. That makes sense. Ty.
I was at the suffusion camps last week and saw something odd as I was parked in that bubble, it was the Azure Span camp one.
Anyway, I watched these player characters fly through, seem to hit an invisible wall mid air, travel up the wall and continue to fly on.
This would happen every few minutes, same player characters, same mounts, over and over and it made me wonder if Blizzard has already populated some events with player ai bots.
That’s also when the dragon would show as coming/on his way and then nothing. He’d just disappear and I’d have to start the camp all over again.
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Now that would be shady. I don’t know why they would feel the need to do that, the world still seems pretty populated with actual players, but I wouldn’t put it past them. I’ll have to keep my eyes open for weirdness like that.
I think I’ve only done the camp on maybe 3 toons this week but next week it’ll be in Azure Span and I’m going to go back and see if it happens again.
It was kind of surreal to see that.
unfortunately so.
That was a bot.
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Stupid question here probably but what could anyone possibly farm in a suffusion camp?
That I don’t know… but players don’t have abilities to follow and ignore terrain like that. I label them bots, report them, and let Blizzard sort it out. Normally I’m right.
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Definitely still happening… lately my wife and I have seen this happen at least once per play session, usually mid-battle or mid-gather.
Noticed some world quests were bugged because of phasing. I reported it and moved on.
I think that’s sharding, and yes. There are at least 3 distinct Vald shards active at 1 time on Moon Guard. I’m also fairly certain each zone now exists in it’s own shard. Maybe unless your server is dead.
Numerous times I’ve seen players on MG disappear after changing zones when not in a group.
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It still occurs. I just was dueling someone and got a phase in Goldshire. Something is going on with phasing/shards.
Yeah phasing is a major problem in war mode too.