Quote Originally Posted by Seif View Post
Test server to prevent this sort of fiasco?

Honestly I would be fine waiting for them to fix this stuff until they get it working but now they've essentially broken a huge part of the game and just decided to test it on the entire paying playerbase.

When i can't do any of the group content in a MMO there is a problem.
The best they can do internally on the dev server is simulate the load. There's no way to know ahead of time EXACTLY how the system is going to react under full player load.