wow Huge Lag Caused by World Boss Is Becoming Unacceptable

[Starym 3,800]

 

Players have had about enough of the very intense lag that happens when Mor'geth shows up in the Maw (which is pretty often).

World Boss-related lag isn't anything new (unfortunately), however the new Maw boss is significantly more problematic and is causing a lot more aggravation than previous ones. The reason is pretty simple - previously the lag was only affecting one of the Shadowlands zones where players were, so it both affected fewer players and the lag itself wasn't as intense as there weren't as many players causing it.

Now that the focus of the world-endgame activities in on one zone, the lag has gotten worse, it's affecting SO many more players than before, and it shows with the many, many threads talking about it. Another factor of the frustration has been the fact that this is the Maw, so many were actually dying to this lag and losing their Stygia. Blizzard have now introduced a way to reduce Stygia loss by 75%, so at least that issue was somewhat improved. The general "demand" from players talking about this is to somehow instance the boss if the lag cannot be resolved, or to do something, anything to let then

• How can u even lag in open world because of World Boss?
• Blizzard need to get their act together. The world boss is lagging out the Maw and Korthia.
• Why is it when 30-40 people are killing a world boss, the area lags so much that it takes 5+ seconds to loot something?
• The severe amount of zone-wide lag because of a World Boss is excruciating and shameful
• The world boss in the maw is a complete sht show be prepared to lose thousands of stygia from people pulling the dog to lag deaths and everything in between :]
• How can u even lag in open world because of World Boss?

While it doesn't seem like this is a very directly fixable issue, as it's been around since Shadowlands launched and Blizzard are very much aware of it, perhaps there are some side-fixes/improvements similar to what they did with the Stygia. In any case, as frustration rises, this is definitely an issue that requires attention.

[Draketh 86]

It's definitely not something new, as this also happened frequently on the first day of the Mantid invasion, in patch 8.3, when the world boss was active in Pandaria. Smaller areas with many players make it all the more noticeable, naturally.

Maybe it'd just be easier if world bosses had their own small raids without any trash, something the size of Baradin Hold, to help get rid of the insane lag.

Edited July 16, 2021 by Draketh

[Nokterian 0]

It has been with all world bosses even in before Shadowlands, they never fixed it and yet it is there i still can't believe they haven't fixed it. 

[ResoWho 68]

what could go wrong if you put the new area, the new worldboss, the entrance to torghast/new raid and the pact attacks in one area?

[SidonisAntares 290]

It's not new to Shadowlands, Uldum and Valley during 8.3 were lagfests with the WB in combat too.

[Keioshin 15]

It's a simple fix. World Bosses in Legion to reduce Argus lag you had to take a portal and go to a separate instanced zone. Blizzard could easily place a portal that leads into a specific part of Torghast to fight the boss. Doesn't even have to be a portal. It can be an npc that transports you to an instanced version of the zone to fight the boss.

[Netzwerg 14]

On 7/17/2021 at 5:13 PM, Keioshin said:

It's a simple fix. World Bosses in Legion to reduce Argus lag you had to take a portal and go to a separate instanced zone. Blizzard could easily place a portal that leads into a specific part of Torghast to fight the boss. Doesn't even have to be a portal. It can be an npc that transports you to an instanced version of the zone to fight the boss.

Wrath had instanced "world" bosses with Vault of Archavon in Wintergrasp. Later we had Baradin Hold. They already know how to solve the problem. As you said, Argus also solved it with the portals. Its like they constantly forget which problems thay had already solved in the past.

I'd really like getting something like Vault of Archavon back -- maybe even deliberately designed for 40 ppl. I mean, the boss is already so close to the Thorgast entry, it is mind-boggling they simply didn't put another entrance there and made it instanced.

Edited July 20, 2021 by Netzwerg