It’s not that. Read my thread. The event is just plain old broken.
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Encountered it for the first time yesterday (was placed in a completed instance, so nothing from it). Asked in /1 if it had just happened to anyone else and there were a fair number “yup, again” replies from veterans of the experience.
I’ve had zero issues with the event, and in the past the phasing issues are caused directly because of raid groups getting priority in phases. Your thread simply states the same issue and has no evidence to the contrary
And no, before anyone tries, I’m not saying that because I haven’t had the issues described, that they “don’t exist”… I’m stating what has caused similar issues in the past with other events
Which is ridiculous if they are already in combat.
It doesn’t need any evidence to the contrary. I’m not trying to contradict that what you say can happen. But it isn’t whats happening to me and a bunch of other people re this event. Both borked things could be happening simultaneously. The issue is that some shards are just screwed. Be thankful you haven’t been on a broken shard.
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I don’t argue this fact. In some of the presently described cases people are between combats when it happens… but I have had it in past expansions where I’m actively in combat doing a world quest in an area where a worldboss is, and pushed to a new phase. I’m not defending the issue, nor the fact that it still exists… it’s a relic of phasing as far back as phasing began sometime during WotLK
I don’t mean to be ornery, but how are you certain that it’s not what’s happening in your case as well? If people aren’t around the elemental storm portions, they could be at the elemental chest, for example… or happen to be on the other side of the zone where you haven’t seen 15-20 people working the other capture points… and this week the world boss is in the primalist future, so it’ll just add to the issue
Because I checked for myself all those places. I’ve had this issue happen to me so often now that I fly around and see what’s happening. I also updated my thread to state that everyone in the shard gets punted. Not just me. Which means the entire in-combat shard gets booted to a shard where the event is not up. This one fact disqualifies your theory.
Also the elemental chest de-phasing right when the event ends because too many people??? Twice??? In the exact same fashion??? No. A shard should be able to handle more than a couple dozen people in an entire area lmao. You used to have more than that just camping a rare in Mechagon for Pete’s sake. Remember, the elemental chest has despawned TWICE in the exact same fashion (again, not just for me but for everyone else around me).
I’ve experienced the “regular” being pushed into a new shard before. I know what it looks like. The usual tell-tale signs are not there in this case. Something else is going on here than the usual shard hopping.
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There is no way to tell if ‘everyone’ is being punted from a shard, but multiple people stating something about it related to the same shard is at least compelling anecdotal. The issue can also be that there are tools to “mass” create parties, which can push people out of phases. I’m not saying that the original issue IS the issue here, and I’m not saying your experience is flawed, but you do have to view things from all angles. Broken shards can exist, and the worst part is, the dumping of players is probably related to the shard forcing a reboot to repair the issue and not the opposite of the shard breaking and dumping people… it’s a 6/half dozen situation, either way people are dumped…
You’re not wrong about shards being able to handle more than a couple dozen people, but again, purely from my own experience and that’s all, I haven’t experienced this issue first hand, so I can only provide speculation, as can anyone on the forums. This is GD, not CS or bug reporting… most GMs won’t even look here for problems, so if you feel this is a technical issue, you might want to try the appropriate forums for the post about it
I literally see everyone in the area with my own eyes being punted with me. No one else is anywhere else in the zone. Everyone in the zone is in my vicinity and everyone gets punted with me. Maybe I missed 1 or 2 people remaining in the original shard. Maybe. But I’ve seen it happen twice now and not a single person around me as far as I can tell dematerialised (an indication that they remained on the shard you just got punted from).
And besides, shard dumping in that fashion does not work that way. Normally it is a case of the few being punted whilst the majority remains on the original shard. Whereas in this case it is the exact opposite.
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Seems like phasing people are dropping raids on it.
This happened to me 4 times today. Cleared all 4 portals, engaged the boss, boss down to 18% health (59%, 94%, and 28% other times) just to have it change me to a new instance of the Primalist Future. No credit, nothing.
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Would you believe me if I said they didn’t test it?
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Ridiculous that this is still happening. I just cleared 4 portals, engaged the final boss, got it to like 40%, then got phased out. Why??
Because multidollar company, that’s why. 
I got phased out of the event into a phase where the event wasn’t even up 
Blizzard appreciates you testing their product.
Please continue to submit bug reports and this event will be ready for live release soon.
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Because world boss in the same zone?
The event is up for 2 hours every 5 hours on every server in the region. It’s not possible to be phased to one without the event in that 2-hour span. Most likely the event ended before you finished doing it.