Comments on: WoW event crashed 27 servers http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/01/wow_event_crashed_27_servers/ Nerds are for Dorks Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:04:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: JC http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/01/wow_event_crashed_27_servers/#comment-4225 JC Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:37:17 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=2548#comment-4225 That was fun. Choosing Moonglade for a part of the event was perhaps unwise... every single druid on the server can teleport there for free... and when the event was announced, they did. And the non-druids either flew in or switched to druid alts. Since the zone has no mobs except the ones summoned for this event, even the low levels got to come watch. Except there were so many people there, that for the most part all anyone saw was a green dragon hovering in midair and a bunch of ghosts hovering and probably 800 people standing still. Then the dragon was on the ground being attacked by everyone who could attack him, throwing out hundreds of shadowbolt spells that took 1/4 to 1/3 of the health off a max level character and pretty much instantly killed people with less. Spells took 60 seconds to start casting, and after being cast, another 60 before they hit the target... I have no idea at all how on earth we all managed to keep the guy tanking the dragon up, or how he kept the dragon on him, but he did, all the way down to 30%... and then the server crashed. It was funny watching the server go down and knowing you'd been in the middle of it, but it sucked for everyone, because they only needed 10% more on the dragon for the event to finish and the dragon to become friendly again. They redid it yesterday afternoon before peak playtime and it didn't crash. The rest of the events like this are in higher level areas that everyone has to travel to reach, so they shouldn't be nearly as bad. That was fun. Choosing Moonglade for a part of the event was perhaps unwise… every single druid on the server can teleport there for free… and when the event was announced, they did. And the non-druids either flew in or switched to druid alts. Since the zone has no mobs except the ones summoned for this event, even the low levels got to come watch.

Except there were so many people there, that for the most part all anyone saw was a green dragon hovering in midair and a bunch of ghosts hovering and probably 800 people standing still. Then the dragon was on the ground being attacked by everyone who could attack him, throwing out hundreds of shadowbolt spells that took 1/4 to 1/3 of the health off a max level character and pretty much instantly killed people with less. Spells took 60 seconds to start casting, and after being cast, another 60 before they hit the target… I have no idea at all how on earth we all managed to keep the guy tanking the dragon up, or how he kept the dragon on him, but he did, all the way down to 30%… and then the server crashed. It was funny watching the server go down and knowing you’d been in the middle of it, but it sucked for everyone, because they only needed 10% more on the dragon for the event to finish and the dragon to become friendly again.

They redid it yesterday afternoon before peak playtime and it didn’t crash.

The rest of the events like this are in higher level areas that everyone has to travel to reach, so they shouldn’t be nearly as bad.

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