Gates of Discord AoC Testing Thread

Can we call a reset on dev-player relations on this topic? We've had really good, constructive AoC testing threads for a number of previous expansions, and I really don't want to see GoD released in a broken state because we can't even manage to keep a civil, open line of communication anymore.

Bump.

It would be nice to get some more communication on this thread. When we can expect to see the latest changes deployed onto the Test server, so we can properly test. Instances which lack many of the relevant named NPCs aren't really that testable, resulting in this awkward silence situation.

<3 Absor. Don't let the haters keep you down.

Thank you very much Absor, provided these are all in working order I see a lot of guilds having fun progressing through GoD. Very glad to see Kod'taz progression targets were included in this new list.

Apparently she has decided to seek out a lusher area to terrorize! (Did you mean Natimbi?)

Let me preface by saying I have no problem with the M'sha decision. What I am curious about is since GoD is apparantly going to be load balanced does this mean we are going to also see raid targets like Cynosure spawning in Qvic pickzones or are we to expect to see the continuation of Mitigation of the Mighty employed to keep certain NPCs from spawning in picks.

If MoTM is going to continue being used I am concerned with it's application on fights such as Zun'Muram Tkarish Zyk in Txevu. Currently the fight is designed around using pets to kill this NPC, primarily the "a mastruq chaosslayer" which are charmed by enchanters. If this raid encounter has Mitigation applied to it with the way threat transfer currently works regarding pets/owners it will be a nightmare to keep enchanters alive making this already difficult encounter MUCH harder.

@Bobby - I'd be fairly surprised if Txevu is load balanced. But yes, MotM on any fight that has enc charm mobs, would seem potentially problematic.

Absor, greatly appreciate the work on all of this. The list looks completely fine, the M'Sha's would have been nice but I completely understand not instancing them.

I'm assuming these changes will have to wait for the next test patch? If so, I look forward to it and will let you know if I run into any more issues.

The following Gates of Discord zones will load balance:
Natimbi
Qinimi
Riwwi
Barindu
Ferubi
Yxtta
Kodtaz
Qvic
Txevu

NPCs that are handled as bosses in Agent of Change instances will not spawn in load balanced zones. Bosses will only spawn in the base zone. Zones that can spawn a boss in the base zone have no player cap. We do not plan to use Mitigation of the Mighty for Gates of Discord or any further expansions.

Awesome, thank you very much for the clarification.

I didn't mean it that way. It was just supposed to be a bump! Appreciate the communication continuing. <3

I'm curious if this means you're acutally going to remove it from the mobs you added it to in OoW for the Quarm server.

If we're doing those, we have to do Weapon Master Vtiink Vzaan/Smith Rondo event, yeah? Same difficulty/loot quality/respawn as Votal and Pizak.

Everything else looks good (other than Cragbeast Queen being in Barindu, SMH).

You don't need to load balance Txevu, single groups aren't going to be killing trash in there, and nothing other than trash and raid mobs spawn. Will just make it a potential pain if multiple guilds are trying to get into Tacvi from pickzones and can't zone in.

I think load balancing is just a flag, so it isn't really a dev effort issue. And they supposedly fixed zoning into AoCs from pick zones. Although, I haven't personally verified that one is working.

The best argument against doing Txevu is probably the pointless waste of server resources. Although, i guess you could argue that if 4 or 5 raids were forming up at the same time, they would want it to load balance for that scenario?

When will the updated instances be hitting Test?

For those knowledgeable about GOD - are all the raid progression bits now Instanced?

I realize it's not on Test so there may be bugs and such, but from Absor's list, are we good?