Phase Sharing

[mmcookies]

from wow.com's liveblog

http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-wow-qanda-live-blog

11:01AM Any plans to improve phasing for Cataclysm? Stockton: Yes, we plan on doing more with it. We want you to be able to share your phase with people, so you can help people with things you've done already. Terrain phasing will also happen, like whole mountains moving.

[king.pa]

a pain for multiboxing... I can't stand following issues with phasing.. grr

[Redbeard]

I havent gotten my team past BC lands yet.. what happens? Wont ensuring everyone is on the same phase be beneficial to us?

[rahven32]

Basically you lose follow or some of your guys just plain disappear if they aren't on the same quest line.

[HPAVC]

I havent gotten my team past BC lands yet.. what happens? Wont ensuring everyone is on the same phase be beneficial to us?

Have you taken a portal to stormwind? When you pass the veil to enter the city from the mage trainers you have phased.

[Souca]

You have to press your follow key a couple more times. Sometimes you have to use your slave move keys if the leader is in the new phase but the followers aren't. I've never had it be a real pain, but thats just me.

- Souca -

[lans83]

easy solution to this and i never have any problems going thru portals or instances. My main's movement keys are bound to the WASD keys, slaves are bound only to the arrow keys on the right side of the keyboard. My tilde key (`) is set to interact with mouseover, so I can move the mouse over each window onto a Mining/Herb Node, or portal and hit that key to have them loot it, or click a portal. I also use the auto follow strobing with Jamba, on command is: /jamba-follow strobeonme all and off is: /jamba-follow strobeoff all. On is macroed into my /jamba-teaminvite macro, and Off is set in it's own macro only on main and used when I hit the Down arrow key to move my slaves back for placement. Getting back to the following issue, if my main goes thru a portal or instance entrance first and slaves don't, then all I have to do is hold down the Up arrow key to make them move forward. Problem solved. Now I haven't even made it to Outlands, other than setting Hearthstones to Shattrath on slaves, little lone Northrend, so I'm not sure just how those Phazing Zones work, but if they're similar to this, then shouldn't be that big of a hassle. Maybe for some tho, but I never have problems with these issues I've listed.

[Multibocks]

Im hoping that the traveler's mounts can remedy the situation for us multiboxers. If they expand a mount to a full group and they are introducing flying mounts similar in style.... it would make it a nonissue as we wouldnt have to worry about losing follows while traveling. Now of course it doesnt help for walking around =/

p.s. anybody tested this with a travellers mount?

[Mono]

Have you taken a portal to stormwind? When you pass the veil to enter the city from the mage trainers you have phased.

That's not phasing. That's teleporting. The mage trainer area is beneath stormwind, walking through the veil teleports you.

Phasing is like multiple layers on one physical area. For instance one who has not done the Shadow Vault questline enters the Shadow Vault and gets jumped by aggressive mobs, they're in one phase. One who HAS done the questline sees only the friendly NPCs.

Also, I haven't tested this myself, but I have read that when one person takes another in as a passenger on their mount and enters phased territory they will still see each other, but will exist only in their own phase. Should aggressive mobs exist in one phase but not the other, only the character in the aggressive phase will be set upon. Upon leaving the passenger seat of the vehicle the two characters are no longer visible to each other.

[Multibocks]

Hmm if they would only up a travelers mount to 5 passengers I would totally buy it.

[Simulacra]

Hmm if they would only up a travelers mount to 5 passengers I would totally buy it.

yeah, why did they pick 3? so random...