It’s late night, it’s the middle of the week. Your hours for the day have been terrible, you’ve been pushing yourself past the frustrations of others and the sick weakness of your own frail mortal coil
… But somehow you’ve made it to the very beginning of the world event
… And somehow there’s even a bunch of motivated people trying to knock this thing out properly
… It’s 10 minutes out, we’re at Rare and are actually on pace to seeing Legendary to spawn the rare mob boss
THEN the server flickers, the world resets, a Glitch in the Matrix:
Soup progress is set to Common and the bare remnants of familiar faces from the last 10 minutes are replaced with (somehow) even stranger strangers.
Phasing for the purposes of load balancing population is dumb.