Scourge Invasion

[Oatmealsmurf]

Does any one know if anything special happen when you clear out all the crystals in a particular zone?

Last night we got a group together in Winterspring on Khaz Modan server... and decided to kill scourge for fun and profit. We cleared two crystals worth pretty fast after we figured out a system... which because our mage was a scaredy cat... consisted of me sending my void walker out through the crowd of scourge surrounding the cyrstal, picking up every mob possible and then bringing th aggro train back to us... saccing and everyone AOEing the mobs down. Then since everyone else was scared as well I'd SS myself to go spawn the Shadow and try and bring pull him back to the group...

Then someone noticed that the floating building was only shooting shadow stuff in one direction so we said well let's go clear the last one then (even though it was getting late)

Well on the last shadow pull we had him at about 1/3 health with two curses of doom on him about to proc... when everyone gets booted... and I can't log back in... keeps taking me to character selection. Now this is what's weird... the server is not down. I can log into my banking Alt who's in Undercity ... and a Priest I created who's in the starting area for the undead but I've never played... But my Warlock and Hunter who are both in Winterspring can't get on for like 15 minutes.

When I finally am able to get back I find out the same thing happened to everyone in our party and lo' and behold the final crystal is back at FULL health. So WTF???

Anyway... has anyone else experience something like this... and has anyone else taken down all the crystals in a territory... if so does anything special happen?... What did we miss?

[wallinius]

Have cleared a few territorys, never noticed anything special happening though. Except that the skull on the map disappears for a while until the attack starts again.

[Morollan]

Cleared Scourge out of Burning Steppes. Hearthed to LHC to move onto the next attack. Got DC'd in much the same way as you and when I logged back on I was back in Burning Steppes and the crystal was back at full strength.

Did mean that everyone else had left and I had the place pretty much to myself though. 2500 AD rep yesterday! :grin:

[Oatmealsmurf]

Well yeah the rep bonus is unreal... The only problem is gonna be now everyone and their momma is gonna have the major mana pot recipie and I'll no longer be able to sell a stack for 15g. LOL...

But it is nice... I'm 1/3 of the way to revered now.

[zkajan]

when you kill all 3 crystals the floating tower over that particular area is "killed"
kill all the towers in all the zones and it's a "win"
"win" a half dozen to a dozen times (on Test relm it was 6, i'm sure it's more on real relms, haven't bothered to check) and the invasion is over
talk to one of the argent dawn npcs to find out how many "wins" you have left to do



as for the disconect and whatnot, that sounds like a realm restart, not related to the invasions

[Oatmealsmurf]

even though players in other zones never got disconnected? That was what was so weird. Only certain territories went down. I could log into my toons that were on the same realm as long as they weren't in Winterspring.

[MellanCholera]

It was kalimdor. sometimes a whole continent gets D/C'd. That is why your Winterpsring guys could not log in, but Undercity chars had no problem.

Since the 1.11 patch, I've been D/C'd maybe 7 or 8 times, and always put back several minutes before when I D/C'd. There is a real problem.

[Oatmealsmurf]

Yeah that happened to me once on a UBRS run too... Oh it was crazy... It was right after we downed Rend and cleared the next room. We were noticed one guy was perpetually attempting to cast a shadowbolt after the fight was over so we just waited... messing around. Then we all get dropped. When the server is back up and we're logged in every thing is repopped but half of us are on the wrong side of the gate and the Rend event started up again.

Odd thing though was everything reset back that far but I was still able to keep the ring I picked up off of Rend before D/C. Would have figured that I'd lose it... but then I guess not since I was one of the ones to repop on the otherside of the gate that doesn't open until Rend is down.

[Xafour]

This has happened to me twice so far. And once I've been even been set back a 2 min. timeframe with my character when I logged back in. (Judged by position.) :shocked:

[rgirty]

I had this problem over the weekend on calimdor too. I was on the boat in feralas and when it came back up i was swimming in a black void without a health bar. I died a few seconds later and popped up in a GY in the barrens that I had never been close to.