Someone get me a ladder!
So I play World of Warcraft and have no life… well.. a life.. and its a eSocial life i guess (or iSocial?)… anyway… today has been weekly maintenance day! No surprise there but, I play on a famously nicknamed server Lagdrassil.
This server is most famous for its tendency to be laggy for no apparent reason… even when its not reporting lag… it must be a feature!
Today was a prime example, hours after weekly maintenance was finished got home and logged on. Within seconds I was exposed to complaints about the server… bombarded by online-offline messages… that, was the first hint. Shortly after getting on, I joined up to a group to go into an instance (Black Morass to be exact, you know, end of the Karazhan attunement chain etc, whole load of fun for a Warrior but not for the poor sod playing the Mage).
So after struggling through what seemed like treacle… i managed to grab a lift down to Gadget. Going afk for 5 mins it takes to get there to relieve myself and stock up on water before the run, i come back to find myself still flapping stationary in mid air over Bloodhoof Village… I cry for help in vain; “Someone get me a ladder!” but sadly my fellow guild mates are suffering a similar fate. Stuck to the floor, unable to open mail, banks or bags.
After various restarts, and stuttering attempt, it finally takes the group 2 hours, just to get into the instance. After that it went quite smoothly, well, we did two attempts but didn’t manage to complete it. (The Shaman respecced to resto and was under geared, and the Warlock had a power cut, and the Rogue had lag… apart from that we wiped on the 2nd (hardest) boss each time)
Ah well… give it a few days and it will be back to normal… just in time for the next weekly maintenance!