Best served with cold steel.

[KingFrost]

I came out of the spamming and got some free EXP from a random Leshy.

People are getting home and booting now. Ya know, I'm so tired and beyond it all, o actually find this kind of hilarious.

By the time I get past this, I'll have perfected my Grynewaht impression.

Edit: Is this what gambling feels like? That deep hope and anxiousness that occurs with each load screen after a proclamation of having all of one's namedays at one by a cowardly magiteck knight whose armor I hope inspires the next tank. Surely this is the true Final Fantasy experience.

[Lambdafish]

This is not a break. This is not a bug. Not a bug. Get that. This is a design that doesn't have the resources. I can't fit a 500 pound man through a four foot hole. You can't gate all your player base behind one instance. Stop defending and get the difference.

So what the hell is your solution? They are working on it as fast as they can. Breaks happen, some of us understand that. The dev team is likely under an immense amount of pressure today due to this, give them a bit of respect while they try to deliver your experience.

[OmegaFlare]

What's the difference between getting to level 70 now as opposed to one day later? You get to brag to your friends about it one day earlier? Everything would still be there and would be the same if you got them a week from now. I'm dying to try out the new skills too but at the same time, I understand the gravity of the current situation. I can wait a few days to test all the new shiny skills. Complaining every minute isn't going to help SE find a solution faster.

Every second Yoshi spends responding and explaining is a second not spent on finding the solution.

[UlarianDarkmoon]

12 hours since server up. 8 hours since this band aid of a fix was put in. The pile keeps getting bigger by the second. Bring the servers down, fix the problem. Its a brand new expansion, if a single resource has been spent on anything but fixing the FREAKING MSQ its misplaced effort.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

THE SKY IS FALLING!

Seriously... I think a lot of people on the forums right now would have mental shutdowns at the very onset of a stressful situation the way they react to stuff. If you've ever worked with this kind of software system, you know things break. it happens, they are working on it. Calm the hell down.

While some people are overreacting, the devs aren't without fault here. It's downright idiotic they put an instanced quest less than an hour into the MSQ. This was inevitable since practically everyone is doing the MSQ to unlock stuff. Had they pushed it off 3-5 hours in, we wouldn't be having nearly the same issues.

[Oscura]

Toot toot

all aboard the mogstation fund hype train

Toot toot

[Theodric]

To be fair, this sort of thing should have been expected. It's happened before, after all - and increasing the power of the instance servers temporarily would have helped to mitigate the problem in advance. Now the developers are going to have a lot of unnecessary work to deal with.

[Roda]

While some people are overreacting, the devs aren't without fault here. It's downright idiotic they put an instanced quest less than an hour into the MSQ. This was inevitable since practically everyone is doing the MSQ to unlock stuff. Had they pushed it off 3-5 hours in, we wouldn't be having nearly the same issues.

hilariously, if you do all the sidequests and other storyquests before that one, it is 3-5 hours in. They just don't know how to handle the load of their customers.

[Nora_of_Mira]

Toot toot

all aboard the mogstation fund hype train

Toot toot

thank god it bought these new fancy servers! /s

[Applesnap]

What some people don't immediately realise is that it's also causing problems in other instanced content. I did a Baelsar's Wall run for a break and some exp, yet we had a massive lag spike before the final boss. Our healer dc-ed and amazingly managed to come back quickly, not before we wiped though.

Literally, as I type this, I'm sitting in a queue 1300+ long for the third time tonight, because I dared to do Frontline roulette as an alternative! There was a mass dc right at the start of it where I saw at least half of the alliance disappear before it hit me too. It's not acceptable and it's very frustrating, but there's ultimately NOTHING we can do as a playerbase.

Honestly, just stay away from instanced content of any kind. Save yourself the stress and if it's getting to you, simply walk away. It's not worth all of this heartache.