Instanced Raid Instability (?)

[Anonymoose]

Are any other groups experiencing terrible stability patterns within the raids? My linkshell is having a host of problems ranging from multiple members crashing immediately upon entrance (EDIT: And lately, randomly whenever a movie or room contents load), to cutscenes and boss fights flat out jumping around as if a lag spike cut out the entire middle section.

Most often, however, is AoE hitting people who have clearly made it out of range - to the point that either they'll be standing behind several other people and get hit alone, or they'll be pulled back to where they were, die, and have their corpse drag across the floor to where would have been out of range.

EDIT: The difficulty of cancelling spells within the instance leads me to believe this is a lag issue, that the server just isn't syncing the clients position in time to register that they've made it to safe distance.

Just us?

[miqokini]

I haven't done the raids yet. I have been hearing reports of random crashing since the new patch but I haven't crashed at all. Dunno if it's exclusive to the raids or not...

[Anonymoose]

Right after the patch the servers did go haywire, but this isn't as severe - though it is equally frustrating. Occurs only inside the dungeons, as if running them demands 250% of what the game usually does.

[Viridiana]

My game crashed both times I tried the r45 one. I think in my case it *might* be tied to the AoE from the Ahriman, but I'm not sure.

[Anonymoose]

Haven't been able to keep a group of eight inside that dungeon at all today; driving me kinda batty. Either during the opening ogre CS or walking into Batraal's hallway, one of us always get's the same situation.

An error has occurred on the game server.
You have been removed from the instance due to connectivity issues.

Those two back to back frustrate me to no end; it's robbed us of (no exaggeration) over eight hours of play just today. Every group I've chatted with outside the instance said they've been getting the same thing.

Is it just my server? Are you guys getting it, too? Is it that too many instances are running at the same time and SE's hardware can't keep up? You're doing a great job, SE, but... get your s#!t together on this one, please. That's a lot of time to waste for no reward.

[Neptune]

Nope me too. The aoe thing is due to server lag. I'm having a problem getting someone to say connected to the game for an hour. Someone dc's like 1 in 3 times.

[Oscillate_Wildly]

Having issues with the game crashing while in Darkhold, also it was a one time thing but it was still pretty funny.

During the Ogre battle, the ghosts phased out to go onto the ground, but instead, they just blinked back onto the top row right on top of us. It was kinda hilarious, everyone wasn't sure where to go since they didn't go where they were supposed to.

[Anonymoose]

That exact ghost thing happened to us last night, as well. They were on the top ring, flashed out, the map markers blinked correctly, and then they glitched right where we were all running.

Simultaneous "Whoooaaaa whoa whoa whoa"s from everyone in the voice channel, lol.

I hope whatever's going on is sorted out; I've got people absolutely refusing to run the dungeon until SE announces better instance stability.

[AngryNixon]

Definitely not just you.

[Archadius]

Not sure if it's getting worse or what, but I've never had a D/C issue in any dungeon before, until yesterday when I D/Ced in Toto-Rak twice.