A list of links from across the forums that have complained about the sharding issues; I will update as I find more:
The behavior I experienced was different than the old issue of being stuck at 100%, so I’m starting a new thread. Bar reached 100%, zone yell from Fyrakk came through, saw the dragon icon appear and start moving from west on the map, then suddenly within moments after spawning on the map, he disappeared and the event counter reset to 0%. Then the disciple randomly flew in by himself after five minutes or so, the event counter was up to 60% by the time he was killed then disappeared after (which …
I am noticing that rares are disappearing while fighting with other people. this has happened in multiple places , Latest is in darkmoon fair. has happened mostly with the mother moonfang. Also happens in dragon isles… Why is this happening? does not matter if I am in a group or solo alliance or horde. please why is this happening?
I joined a raid group to do the tuskarr family achievement. Went to the area (lunker sighting below ruby life pools), but everyone else was in a different phase. Tried going to Valdrakken as suggested by the outdated message on the raid frames stating to go to a sanctuary like Oribos to properly phase with my party, but it didn’t help.
Eventually four others joined the raid that were in my phase. Those stayed with me as everyone else left. I tried to find five more but everytime I added people …
^(Says phasing but is about Sharding)
I have had enough of the sharding that is going on in wow. i understand that is was put in to help alleviate the lag and crowds in a zone. It was supposed to make a copy of the zone and put the new people in it. It doesn’t do that anymore. I have been camping rares for the last week. I waited for 6 hours for a rare to spawn which is on a 1.5 to 2 hr spawn timer. I was transported to about 5 different shards in those 6 hours. I probably missed the spawn. I waited another 4 hours the next day and …
Why in the world is Phasing as buggy as it is? It seems to be happening more and more recently where I’m fighting a mob or a rare and just get phased in to a different shard. Why in the world is phasing even allowed during combat?
^(Uses phasing but is actually about sharding!)
I don’t know why this is happening but every few minutes for the past few months, I seem to get phased into a different instance of the game. It’s not just happening to me either. Everyone in general chat talks about it when it happens. It is extremely frustrating for several reasons.
-Many of us are still trying to get the Elemental Lariat design, which is only possible from Elemental Storm rares which only spawn every like 30 minutes in an elemental storm, each of which happen only last 2 hou…
^ (Says phasing but really means Sharding)
when planting seeds or attacking a rare i am often sharded to where i am not doing either of those things, today was one of the pink seeds i planted and got its level up so was annoyed, anyone else having probs like this??
I was just in a shard/phase/whatever, and I had planted a blue seed, and while I was picking flowers and squishing bugs, I got placed into a new shard/phase/whatever with another seed going (a purple).
Do I just lose the loot from the blue seed I planted? That doesn’t feel good.
IS this by design, or simple accident, but 2 days now I’ve tried to do things in retail And both times I get randomly shard changed so I can’t complete my task. First while planting a purple seed and dumping 500 currency to max it out, 30s nope get wrecked. enjoy this fresh dirt pile.
Then Forcing a rare spawn, having it just over 50% dead, and nope, enjoy these 10 new mobs around you with the rare gone, because why the f not.
This is not encouraging or immersive, and making me reconsider giv…
The insufferable shard phasing is now affecting the ‘You’re A Mean One…’ encounter. Maybe it was already doing so from the start, but this was my first.
Got abominable Greench to 1% and then phased away with a couple others. Plenty of these reports in the Support threads affecting Bloom events, Zaralek Cavern, SL areas, and other old zones.
Any reason phasing needs to occur while in-combat, lootable corpses are in range, or while waiting for a quest event to complete? What is even triggering i…
It seems like there is an excessive amount of shard “balancing” going on. Mid-session, mid-quest, even mid-combat, I’ve seen almost every gaming session I’ve been playing, regardless of character, that I get shifted from shard to shard, frequently to my detriment.
A few examples:
During the escort portion with Sendrax. She disappeared. The NPC didn’t even appear in her starting point. Had to drop the quest and wait for, I’m assuming, the server to figure out that she was supposed to be there t…
earlier today I was waiting for a dreamsurge effect to come into play. it was the Dreamsurge Magpies effect. there were a couple of gold world quests nearby so figured it would be a good time to get them done. I vote, and wait for the timer to count down. the DM effect is clearly the one that has been chosen - there was no doubt about that.
Do both the world quests, don’t really stop and look after the first one but I did after the second - no gold buff. the DM effect had been switched for the …
Annoying as heck. Hopefully one day there will be a solution to this.
Cause now I can’t RP in Stormwind.
I was in the Azure Span waiting for the dreamsurge cooldown on a rare and BAM-- and not in the good Emeril Lagasse kind of way-- I was in another shard and the rare was gone.
I was plunking down my keys like a gambling addict at the Morchok slots, got him to one key left to spawn when WHAM – and not in the 80s boy band way-- I was placed into a shard where he had only 1/10.
Today I was kicking the Titan Defense Matrix in its orb and it was at 20% when like a cheap transition on Bewitched I was…
^(They say phasing but its actually sharding)
I have had this happen a half-dozen times in the past few weeks. I don’t know if it is sharding or what. But more than once in recent weeks I have seen the Fyrakk shout that he is coming and nope, not even, everything gets reset to 0 and no disciple.
^(Also says phasing but this issue is sharding
I just ran a festival in Bel’ameth and the phasing was a nightmare. At most we were only able to get 80 people in a single shard and we had to leave so many players behind. People really want to use this area for Roleplay and it feels like we are getting penalized for wanting to engage with the community.
^(Uses ‘phasing’ but is actually about sharding)
Not sure if this is due to the fact i’m in a high pop server- Bleeding-Hollow NA(altho 90% of the time i see OC people in the zone i’m in). But sharding is really terrible atm, what’s going on? I’m mid fight with a rare, doing a hunt, mid quest and stuff is just resetting.
Is this happening on all servers? This is absurdly punitive when there’s nobody doing the event you’re doing and it’s back to zero after 20 min.
Since returning for 8.1 to level up some alts, it seems the game has become barely playable. I can barely go three minutes before mid-combat the pack of mobs I’ve pulled disappear and are replaced with a new shard. Worse, I cannot reach the end of any escort quest before being resharded, which each time causes the NPC to disappear completely, appearing at no stretch along the route previous, forcing me to abandon the quest and relog to make it reappear at the start… only to then fail in the same…
^ (Thread from 2018)
So i’m out skinning and after killing about 5 things finally since they all aggro-ed me i decide to skin them. Then your stupid shard system kicked in and the bodies vanish only to be replaced by the same 5 creatures I JUST KILLED.
How about and i hate to say this use the same system guild wars does for its sharding. ASK FIRST. “Hey this area is a bit empty would you like to go to another shard?” And they give you small buff incentives like rep bonus or exp bonus of the sorts.
I think one of t…
^ (another from 2018)
The problem is that many times, people are forced into a shard or a phase when they don't want to be in that shard or phase. This problem is exacerbated by the serious imbalance of the pvp/pve flagged players. So, what rules can be had to make shards more enjoyable, and less immersion breaking? Rules: 1. Keep parties TOGETHER on the same phase and shard as the leader. Yes, this might break some stuff. But ultimately, when two party members can't see each other but the map shows they are in t…
^(another from 2018)
Sorry if this has been posted before.
Maybe this is an issue that has been going on or just because of too many people on today.
I’ve been doing World Quest and have been having some serious sharding issues. I will be killing a boss and it will shard me out.
I was doing some world PVP and the opponent would not stop sharding in and out. We fought in the same place. I assumed it was because the world quest were causing it.
I went into a skirmish arena today and the players zoned out and it wa…
^( From 2019)
I have no idea if its a bug, a technical issue or just a crazy design function, but being alerted to a rare in Naz, only to see it disappear in front of you without no one attacking it, is extremely frustrating. If this is an error, its a bad one, and if its deliberate, its even worse.
^(another from 2019)
Seriously, fix sharding so it doesn’t kick you off a rare you have camped for hours. Super frustrating I have to camp rares, but I can deal. I cannot deal with the hilariously terrible sharding/phasing. There is no reason for us to still be suffering this bug after more than a year of it being an issue.
^(Another 2019)
I was just in a group on Mechagon that contributed to and built the Reclamation Rig, fought through all of the phases until the last when the elementals come out, and then got moved to a shard where no rig was up right before we completed the event.
Is it possible to lock players to one shard while they are contributing to events like this? It’s pretty sad to lose out on the event completion after giving so many resources and time into finishing it.
^(Another from 2019 displaying that sharding is not working as it was originally intended)
Please, please fix the out-of-control sharding issue. I have been in multiple superblooms where we are about to end with a purple and BOOM… it vanishes and everyone’s on a new shard. The new shard is in green and is nowhere near the progress we had.
Several times I have planted a purple seed and maxed it out… and then again, get shared. People appear around me and someone has a green in progress where my purple one was… (I went back to see if I could get the purple to spawnbut it never di…
^(One from just last december '23)
Just did another Aurostor fight where the sharding went ballistic. We started the fight, blowing our cooldowns of course. Then after a minute or so it decided nah, new shard, new boss! Awesome. Then after about 10 seconds fighting this new one, we got pushed to yet another shard. Or at least, some of us did! Not everyone in the group came through the wormhole together.
This is absolutely absurd, blizzard.
I was fishing Islefin Dorado. Suddenly I stop fishing and I’m fishing Thousandbite Piranha instead.
Earlier I was fighting a rare. Got it to low health. Suddenly get sharded and it has full health.
Another time I pulled four djardins for an inscription item. Suddenly they disappear as I get sharded.
For the love of Chris Metzen stop sharding players, especially mid combat.
What’s the deal with the shard changes? I’m on a low pop server and the Emerald Dream is pretty much a dead zone. Seems like half way into fighting a high health boss I get shard changed or half way into feeding/farming a seed to full I get shard changed. Also happens during super bloom causing waste of effort & time for rewards. Is there anything I can do about this? It’s so frustrating!
I was on Mechagon killing Killsaw and my husband who plays on the same server as I wanted to help me kill him. So I invited my husband to group and as soon as I did, Killsaw was gone because once again I got moved to the shard where my husband was… even though I was the group leader. This is getting really frustrating especially considering we PLAY ON THE SAME REALM for a reason. I’m still confused as to how this is supposed to work. It seems broken to me. Is there a way to guarantee that you wi…
^(Another thread from 2019)
In combat with Rockweed Shambler rare and at 40%ish I got sharded? FROM A RARE FFS. Sharding is so broken still and I’ve yet to read anything on details to address the issues. STOP SHARDING ME WHEN IM IN COMBAT!!
^ (another from 2019)
I just got re-sharded while waiting on my Emerald Bounty to complete. This is pretty inappropriate to have happening while someone is attempting to participate in an event. It remains to be seen if I will get the resulting loot in the mail.
EDIT: The chest itself spawned in my shard after, looks to be a personal thing. It is still a bit immersion-breaking however.
I just finished the researchers under fire event on storm rage with my druid.
we just killed the last boss the captain and as soon as he died the entire raid got sharded into a dead shard so we were not able to get the epic bag
The entire raid no one left and it happened as soon as the captain died and we all got loot in the mail so we know what triggered the death kill
This is happened several times the past few weeks and it’s starting to get annoying
Getting randomly thrown to a different shard for no reason.
Was even fighting a rare without being in a group and at 50% got bumped to a different shard … not cool to waste people’s time like that when you have dumb mechanics revolving on waiting around for spawns, fix your stuff.
Getting kicked to a different shard during the soup, or other events, should not be a thing. I’ve been dumped multiple times now from such events before they completed and not received credit for them. Once you are engaged in an event you should be locked to that shard for 10-15 minutes after the event is completed so you can reap your rewards. (I only say this long so people have time to fly down and kill Lancer.)
So I just had High Reaver Damaris pop. I created a custom group in group finder. People joined, enough to become a raid. I invited one of my alts. Somewhere in this the rare just disappeared. It actually looked like the whole raid just up and joined another shard. RIP rare dune spawn.
This crap is broken.
Just had this happen again. Created a group for a Revendreth rare. Someone else joined and we all shifted shard. That shouldn’t happen.
^ (Shadowlands content)
It keeps resetting gets to 100% resets 60% rests 10 % resets waiting on 5th reset now . took 5 resets on last toon I did it on . Is this how you are getting your time played up . For me it just makes it harder to stay subbed
Edit Today mid fight just gone , FIX YOUR GAME , Think its when Azure Pathfinder spawns but not all ways . Well this time he was at 90% hp lol and gone and no Azure Pathfinder around . Its just so boring setting for over a hour waiting!!!
got this 09:54:47 PM] Fyrakk ye…
The following threads are sharding related as sharding is supposed to create and fill new shards as others become too full but instead it’s randomly tossing players around and sometimes placing them on dead shards:
Hey folks, i’ve been dragon riding in azeroth for the last hour which was a lot of fun but anywhere i went, in all ally zones, villages, the only place I found ONE player was on a gate in stormwind, literally no one else, ended up pretty sad to see all this landscape with no players in it.
Is that because i’m on a low pop server ? Ain’t sharding supposed to fix that ? Or is the game just really low in player population ?
So… a lot of the servers are basically empty, or like, near to? I’ve been hopping around alts and uh… Is this game on life support?
Did everyone leave for greener pastures? Like, I get it but maybe do some server mergers? Kinda pointless playing an empty MMO.
Sharding in relation to RP realms where it’s supposed to be disabled:
In prior xpacs this was fixed within a few days of release, however on RP realms we’re still experiencing sharding issues in capitol cities. It makes it nearly impossible to RP with people when you’re being yanked away to empty server shards again and again.
I’m on sentinels fyi (zone nazjatar WM on),
I’m told sharding on RP realms is disabled, the connected realms info support page, shows me connected to different realms. Im chatting up people who are doing nothing special when they login. So… are rp realms sharded, is the connected realms info support page outdated, or is it a bug and sharding on rp realms supposed to be disabled?
I really wish I can send a screenshot of the( conversations or seen) I’m having with various people from :
Emer…
It was made known that this is the proper forum space for this grievance. Seeing as the Treasure Goblin event is over, please restore the disabled sharding on RP realms, particularly in Stormwind and Orgrimmar.
Thank you!
I thought the sharding in the cities had been fixed, but I just logged into a completely empty mage quarter. Please look into turning it back off again. Thank you.
Event has caused Sharding on Stormwind. Please remove the sharding for RP servers.
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