It is time...

[Tupsi]

Test server to prevent this sort of fiasco?

They have one internally, a few actually. Only reason people want a public test server is to try and do content ahead of the actual patch time and to try and get "head starts" on gathering crafting items on the live server.

A test server won't prevent this because test servers tend to be limited in nature and a bit closer to what the dev's build is like. The best part about what you said though, they didn't patch in "lag" or anything...they changed the duty finder infrastructure..again, which is the issue - They put TOO MUCH RELIANCE on duty finder and not enough on 'open world' or "world based" content.

[Clavaat]

They put TOO MUCH RELIANCE on duty finder and not enough on 'open world' or "world based" content.

Aw I had agreed with you until you went there. We would be having the same issues if the we had more "open world" content, except it would be with everything outside of instances. Until the servers become more reliable/powerful in general, both instance and world servers, adding more of anything would not help the issue.