The Hidden Forest

Hey guys.

Rafe and I are here in hoh, with only 47 characters in the zone, and the lag is pretty insane and almost unplayable. I'm currently sitting by the chaos portal and whole groups of shadows, armors, etc are just teleporting to my tank (thankfully haha). Not sure what's causing it, but issues like this seem to have started back over the summer when some of the HOH code was changed (zone crash fixes I believe).

Around that time templars started constantly doing their ability even on people soloing them and armor's had a significantly lower chance of popping the tiny armors upon death. I remember having a ton of people in HOH back in the day over double exp weekends and it was never this bad... bad yes, but I never experienced mobs teleporting from across the zone to me.

Anyone else noticing these problems?

Thanks!

Yes it is sad but HoH starts showing significant lag with greater than 3 groups. Donno what's changed but, it hasn't been for the better.

Which mobs are y'all mainly killing?

Rafe was killing djinns while I was roaming and killing shadows/guardians of madness. I then stopped killing anything and sat by the chaos portal for a couple of minutes and had a pretty constant stream of mobs; mostly shadows. I hadn't been near them in awhile though. Also as I'm typing this a shadow and a guardian teleported to my group (I'm back by the soulbinder) and were killed by the guardians of order.

The mobs are attracted to your smell.

sounds like you agroed the mini and now anything that repops and roams by him is now agroing you too. the mini is perma rooted.

That's a good point, and now that you mention it probably is what was causing the mobs to come from across the zone, but regardless the zone is much more laggy than it used to be. With only Rafe and I in zone (with a couple people afk at the entrance) pulling mobs there were several times where it seemed as if the zone was crashing; the % bar would start to count down and all other chars would disappear, etc. Still think it is worth bringing up, even if aggroing the mini previously was the cause of the mobs porting from across the zone.

tis alot of lag have all my alts with zero clip planes. I think it IS the zone. Not sure what could be done, but it makes me think that the zone is crowded when there are more than 20. I can remember when there were often over 100 in the zone and little or no lag.

HoH is one of the most important zones on the server. Many folks are at the stage on the server that need HoH. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ZONE

1. There is sickening zone lag when there are more than 30-40 characters in the zone
2. It is so bad I avoid it on weekends and evenings to avoid seeing ghosting, getting killed
and generally having a less than optimal experience.
3. Something really should be done to make this very important zone no longer be one of the very worst zones.

Suggestions:

1. Make it into an instance
2. Divide it up
3. Decrease zone wide agro radius of minis

I'm not a developer so I don't know what is to be done but I do know it was once better. I can remember 120 characters running around in the zone with no problem.

Please add to this post, let the server folks know its a real problem that we need to have fixed.

Also noticed it crashing quite a lot recently.