zonewide consective bug/LD bug

mwh

Dalayan Beginner
My groups for the last few weeks(maybe longer) have been experiencing a very specific problem with every member of the group or zone going either LD or "bugged" all in a row. By what I mean "bugged", is that mobs will show as their original health when the person first got bugged, mobs wont move, and you wont see people move. Nor will you be able to open doors, see people do combat animations, etc. If its been awhile since you noticed you were bugged, you could see like 6 mobs standing there at camp at weird healths, even though the group killed them minutes ago. If I try and camp out, I ALWAYS lock up on either of my computers, but others have been able to camp out. So usually I just /ex and log back on. The "bugged" thing instead of going LD seems to be like the server thinks you went LD, but isnt quite registering it, or something. Its very odd, since you can still talk and do group says, but cant do alot of other things.

This is how it works. You are xping in Cmalath with a group. First one person goes LD. THey might get a chance to come back or not, then another person will go LD. Then someone gets "bugged" as described above. THis continues until everyone in zone is hit by it. Then usually you are fine for an hour or so, and it will happen again. I have seen this also happen on entire raids.


Note : This is happening in multiple zones. The zones that seem worse for it are cmalath and eldenals, but maybe thats only because I do those zones more than anythin else, and tend to punish groups going LD in a row like this.

note 2 : Id put this on the bug list, but I wanted to make a post to see if anyone else has any ideas on whats causing this, since this seems a rather vague and hard to track bug, so figured maybe other people might have some insight. Please dont talk about random LD problems in general, this is a very specific thing thats going on, with everyone going LD in a zone or getting this specific bug one right after another. Not just random LD in groups.
 
Yes, this bug is specifically brutal in Cmalath when you have someone get bugged and /ex, then you pull a Blackwatcher and have you're tank get hit next in the rotation, then you're shaman dies because of the aggro switch, and then when your ranger gets back from logging they cant tank the damn thing long enough to heal them good enough and they die, etc etc etc.


This whole mess seemed to start about the time Gfay/Lfay etc was introduced.
 
We've definitely been experiencing this on raids as well.

What happens is that you stop receiving packets correctly. Not sure what causes it, we'll need more testing.
 
Callius, please reread the part of my post where I said "Please dont talk about random LD problems in general, this is a very specific thing thats going on, with everyone going LD in a zone or getting this specific bug one right after another. Not just random LD in groups."
 
This bug has been around for a while, thought it used to be an incredibly rare, once-a-month occurance. It's extremely difficult to pinpoint, and almost impossible to recreate, being seemingly random. In so far as I can see, the fequency of this seems to increase as the playerbase does.
 
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