Writing this post from the safety of my Tier 2 Garrison’s Town Hall. As in… it’s not safe to step outside. Latency is increasing once again(though slowly). To say this is just Day 1 of launch and this is “normal”.. no. To me, this is just like the beta.<\/p>\n
Been questing with my Rogue. Finally got him to 91. Now he’s my highest leveled char on Live and first Alt to hit 91. The kill stealing has continued. Though it isn’t worse as I had predicted. In some situations (like in Shaz’ghul) it’s actually helped to complete quests faster than on the beta.<\/p>\n
I also got two new quests that involve professions, yet I didn’t need the skill to accept them.
\nAnyway, to get to the whole “just is just like beta” part, I got my Garrison to Tier 2 and slapped down what buildings I remembered(and could). Have noticed three things;
\n1. The Barracks can no longer be upgraded to Tier 2. You have to wait ’till you’re near or at Level 100 to do it(either get the Nagrand outpost or be Level 100). My guess for the change, to make it so you can’t have a Bodyguard ’till then. And since Bodyguards are Level 100, it makes sense.
\n2. Even though I have a Guild, I still can’t display my Guild Banners in my Garrison. Still have to do Draenor dungeons with my “Guild”… UGH!! Well, it’s just a slight unfortunate thing. Nothing to fuss and threaten death on Blizzard over.
\n3. Mr “I could do better” is back, but… a lot more tolerable. As in, he doesn’t spam anymore. Saw him staring at one of the paintings.<\/p>\n
Moving on, the server was preparing to restart. I did a Garrison Invasion quest. Died a few times, but got it done. Noticed there’s no more medals for completing it. It felt.. dull. All I got was XP, gold, and a pat on the back.
\nAfter the restart, I found myself on the road to my Garrison. Went back, and noticed I kept getting bounced back out. Suddenly I realized the “Transfer aborted: instance not found” message. And of course, people in my Garrison.
\n*sigh* Went through this on the beta. This should had been fucking FIXED by now!!<\/p>\n
Within 7 minutes, it fixed itself. Then I started getting issues being really slow to attack and loot. This is not good as a Melee class. This lasted a good hour, but also fixed itself.<\/p>\n
Now, Blizzard is taking steps to fix the problems. And that is limiting the amount of people that can get on the server; something I haven’t seen since the days of Vanilla and TBC. We wait for people to log off to take their place. They’re temporarily doing this, though.
\nThey also know about the issues with Garrisons and stuff and are working on fixes for them. Hopefully the fixes come soon and the player cap is removed. Though I can see getting kicked out due to a crash or a log out is going to suck…
\nOn a side note, my “friends” are still like talking to a wall. Sometimes they never respond, or never bother asking how I’m doing.<\/p>\n
EDIT: And now it’s worse. My Rogue’s in Gorgrond now. Level 92. Was running to a quest giver when I got D\/C’d. Tried to log back in, stuck at the character select screen. Wound up back at the Shrine in MoP. Hearthed back to my Garrison. People saying they can’t leave or be disconnected. Oh wow. I… wow.
\nJust like beta. I can’t fucking say this enough! It makes me glad I as Benie decided to wait. Made the right call. Still no word of a fix. But at least Blizzard knows about it.
\nOn top of that, even battle.net itself is having issues. The forum is down with a 500 Internal Server Error!<\/p>\n
EDIT2: So there’s going to be emergency maintenance tomorrow morning, starting 8am EST and ending around 12pm EST. Four hour maintenance. Though it can easily take longer than that if something goes wrong.
\nUnlike the masses of dissatisfied customers, I for one implore Blizzard’s attempts to make the servers stable for all legit players.
\nHopefully they fix whatever’s going on. Some day the DDoSers are back for more. They seem to think that keeping people from playing WoW is better for everyone.
\nOther people, in their own “native tongue” are blaming Blizzard for this. Saying they had 10 years to fix this. 10 years to know how bad traffic was going to be.<\/p>\n
Whatever’s the case, I did decide to man up and try to leave my Garrison. No problems. So I went back to Gorgrond to continue questing and managed to hit 94 after doing three bonus objectives.
\nNow questing in Talador. Picked the assault tower with the cannon once again. It seems they really nerfed the damage. I used to be able to 1-2 hit bosses. Though they still do weaken Elites enough for me to finish them off.
\nBut seeing how I played ’till 6 in the morning (and I’m very tired), I’m heading to bed. I hope the servers are back up by the time I wake up. But if not, then something’s wrong. But it’s better for them to try to fix it than me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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