Aaand...the idiocy race is off again, as another World Event starts

[Souca]

is the flying goblin cupid thing still dropping tihs year?

Yes. It's a rare drop from the gifts of adoration. You can shift click them to see if there is a goody in there and then trade it to the character you want it on. They might change this though, as they said it was an oversight that some things weren't soulbound. Personally I hope they don't. I don't want to have to hope to get a pet on the one character I want it for. I'd rather try on all of them and then get to put it on a character I choose.

Additionally, a goblin will follow you like a pet if you are hit with an arrow, but it is only temporary.

- Souca -

[puppychow]

The pledge bags that guards/NPCS give you are now soulbound, so you can no longer trade them (like you could in the past) to others.

The title does require level 80, since you have to go to strat and naxx (you don't have to kill anything, but you have to be 80 to zone into naxx). To be honest though I don't think many people are going to be getting the title unless Blizzard hotfixes something, the bag of candy is not dropping very often and you need to pull 8 different candies out of it (and each only has 10 charges). Some people are lucky and getting 3-4 bags, I have the achievement completed on one of my guys, but another one of my guys has gotten 0 bags of candy in over 20 pledge bags the past 2 days.

[beyond-tec]

I really love this world event,

most of the players are now talking to npcs, kissing and hugging them so the instance servers are free
and I can boost my team without jumping against the instance portal while waiting for a free instance id.

Do you have this problem often? I don't think I've ever had it, and I'm on a launch server (been around since the beginning, full).

I know I've had problems where the instance server was down - but never full?

you're playing on US Realms.

On EU Realms (I know only from the german language realms) on about 75% of all servers you got full instances every evening.
you need about 20-120 minutes to get into an instance (don't try it saturday or sunday evening cuz you won't get in).

only on the ghost realms where you'll find only a handful of lvl 80s you don't have instance problems.

it's very very worse atm on our realms, that's why it sucks to push a team through instances and boost them to lvl 60 with RAF
because it takes longer to get into that instance than to clear it. Instances problems start at about 16:00 and end at 2:00 in
the morning so if you got a job: don't try to do more than one instance / evening.

Due to this event lots of ppl are in sw interacting with NPCs so they aren't in the instances. It took me about 2 minutes to
get into stockades which was very very nice.

[Tonuss]

You were probably running into the issue of your team can only zone into 5 different versions of the instance per hour (limit to prevent cheat farming, etc),

That isn't what he is referring to. It has happened to me on two, maybe three occasions (on a medium-pop server that has the occasional 50-300 person queue for a short time). I don't know if it's due to population or something else, to be honest. What happens is that I try to zone into the instance, I see the loading screen for a split-second, then I am back outside of the instance, with a 'raid-warning' type of message saying something to the effect that additional instances cannot be generated at this time, try again later. After 2-3 more attempts to zone in, I will get into the instance.

Since it only takes me a couple of extra attempts to get in, it hasn't been a problem for me. At worst it costs me a minute of time. I don't know how widespread it is, though.

[Taliesin]

"Instance server is full."

We see this pretty frequently during peak times on Duskwood. Just gotta keep trying to walk into the instance every few seconds before someone else grabs the next free instance ID. This issue is different from the "You have too many instances" type of issue, which refers to being into 5 in an hour. Only recently (within the last week) started seeing the "full" error. This one can occur on the very first instance you try in a day.

[Bovidae]

"Instance server is full."

This was a major factor in my recent server transfer. Literally, standing in queue outside an instance, after waiting in queue 20 minutes just to log on?!?!? NO WAI

As far as the holiday is concerned, I have everything (including the pet) on all my toons, except for the damn candy bag BS. I'm what could be called an obsesive compulsive farmer, and have probably hit 35-40 Gift/Pledge of Adorations on each toon, and have seen 4 candy sacks total. W T F

If this shit causes me to fail on the World Events meta, IM GUNNA QUIT THIS GAIM BLIZAZARD (jk, wrong forums)

[puppychow]

I think they hotfixed the candy bags today morning, because I've gotten 3 today on my guys in 5 tries, vs maybe 3 bags yesterday in > 50 tries (10 times, 5 guys). In fact I've completed the title now on 4 of my guys, my last shaman however has 0 candy bags on him everything else done with him, so hopefully over the weekend I'll get a few bags of candy and finish it up.

Looking forward the Childrens one isn't too bad, except the achievement that requires you to have your orphan out and return a flag in WSG (ugh - maybe it'll count in group, hopefully not personally return)

[Gadzooks]

"Instance server is full."

We see this pretty frequently during peak times on Duskwood. Just gotta keep trying to walk into the instance every few seconds before someone else grabs the next free instance ID. This issue is different from the "You have too many instances" type of issue, which refers to being into 5 in an hour. Only recently (within the last week) started seeing the "full" error. This one can occur on the very first instance you try in a day.

Dreanor gets it during prime time on the weekends, two weeks ago I could'nt get into Shadow Lab for about half an hour, and there were other groups hanging around the meeting stone waiting to grab a raid ID. *shrug*

My personal theory is that a lot of older instances were being spawned for the coins of ancestry, and hopefully now that the world event is over, it will loosen up.


Blizz made Wrath very instance heavy, people are in instances a lot more now, between heroics and Naxx and Wintergrasp, so it's not surprising the instance servers are getting hit.

I would hope that they add more servers when 3.1 hits, with the new raids.