The Hidden Forest

Been a few weeks since I tried Seravince, but felt the need to give it another try again this morning...

So I head to the pad to zone into his instance, get buffed up and then zone in. Unfortunately as soon as I zone, I get a few messages from work that needed my attention. 5 minutes later I get back to my PC, and notice my crew is back at the zone-in point in HoH. No message saying any reasone why...

So I run back, zone back in, then decide to go grab some coffee while I'm zoning. I get back to my PC, target Sera, start get buffed up and position my raid, and again ported back to HoH entrance for no apparent reason. So I run back yet again, get set up much faster, positioned, buffed, and pull Seravince. A minute or two afte I grab him, I get ported out again. Strange, no?

Lastly, I have yet to kill him solo. When I tried him a few weeks ago, it seems like I have no time at all to get the adds mezzed before tank gets whalloped for 200+million damage. I mean, it's like adds are active, then before I can get a single mez off, bam...dead tank. Tried him a few times, and each time, same result. No idea if it's just "user error" on the event or if it's supposed to be that way? Either way, figured I'd bring it up since I'm on the topic.

Just tried again. Was ported out within 30 seconds this time. I thought perhaps it was an "inactivity timer" to prevent people from just afking inside the raid instances. But that seems unlikely as to what's going on here.

Thanks for reporting it. I think I found a bug in the instance creation of the event, working on it now. As for the event mechanics I don't want zo exploit it.

Lillu wrote:Thanks for reporting it. I think I found a bug in the instance creation of the event, working on it now. As for the event mechanics I don't want zo exploit it.

Lol, ok...user error I guess!

Ok so I actually don't see the instance issue, lol. After a Seravince win the zone will boot players in 20 mins, if you fail there's a 3 min timer until you can try again, but that's it I think. I'll dig more but right now no idea why you would get booted from the zone. Where there another player/guild in the zone already? Please check again soon and let me know.

The adds are up and active for a while before Sera calls them to join the fight (assuming you're fighting at the steps). Make sure you're stepping up and mezzing those three as soon as they pop, because their DPS ramps up even if they're not aggrod. They wiped me on my first solo attempt because I assumed their DPS wasn't going to start ramping up till they aggrod "Odd, they're not aggroing me! Maybe I can get through the whole fight without them jumping in! Crap, they aggrod, well time to tab to enchan.... 'LOADING, PLEASE WAIT...' BAH!"

As for getting booted prematurely, Hoss was telling me he was getting the same thing a couple days ago Zone in, target, engage, and shortly thereafter a trip to the HoH zone in.

I experienced a different issue I noticed with Draekon. If someone kills him and then gates everyone out, you can still zone into the instance after the event is completed but he obviously wont be up and you'll be ported out within seconds. Confused me a bit till I figured out he had just died I guess this has to do with the 20 minute timer after completion, lets you zone in but boots you almost immediately. IMO it should give you the "This event has recently been defeated" message the moment he's dead

Rude wrote:As for getting booted prematurely, Hoss was telling me he was getting the same thing a couple days ago Zone in, target, engage, and shortly thereafter a trip to the HoH zone in.

I was with Superhoss a couple days ago when this happened. When I first tried to zone in all of my toons crashed. I think I was playing around 9 characters. I usually do not have this problem. After relogging everyone back in Superhoss pulled to stairs and we engaged. At around 30% all of our toons were ported back to HoH zone in. Between the 2 of us I would say we had 20 toons or so in zone. Zoned back in and restarted event and had no issues the second time. Super did tell me that the same thing happened to him again the next day.

Yep, it's happened to us a few times now. You're lucky you didn't get booted at the end of the fight

I petitioned after the 2nd time it happened. Appreciate you looking into it, Lillu! We took him out tonight, no problem. Looks like the reboot might have fixed it.

Lillu wrote:Ok so I actually don't see the instance issue, lol. After a Seravince win the zone will boot players in 20 mins, if you fail there's a 3 min timer until you can try again, but that's it I think. I'll dig more but right now no idea why you would get booted from the zone. Where there another player/guild in the zone already? Please check again soon and let me know.

Perhaps those timers were looping when they shouldn't be? And no, I was the only one there.

Rude wrote:The adds are up and active for a while before Sera calls them to join the fight (assuming you're fighting at the steps). Make sure you're stepping up and mezzing those three as soon as they pop, because their DPS ramps up even if they're not aggrod. They wiped me on my first solo attempt because I assumed their DPS wasn't going to start ramping up till they aggrod

Ahhhh, k...I was not fighting at the steps, and I was waiting to mez until they were actually aggro. I had just assumed they were "inactive" until then....good to know!

Attempted him again yesterday morning. Had no issues this time. Did not get booted from zone. Also completed the event thanks to Rude's tip.

I'll let you know if the issue crops up again.