Our server also received new hardware today and its lagging as bad as ever, 4-5s lag in Org. Anyway I decided to check an instance to see if the lag was fine in there. So I invite a buddy, and attempt to zone in. "Instance Not Found". What the..?

After having several people try to zone in, we all get the "Instance Not Found" error. Is anyone else (not on lightning's blade) having this issue?

Are you in a raid? If you try to enter a raid instance while not in a raid, that's the error message you'll get.

I've definitely died by trying to run past the guards into BWL before I got an invite before.

Definitely in a raid ;\

It's probably the instance servers that aren't fully up and running yet. Just from reading the forums I get a distinct "we fucked it up again" feeling that has evolved over the past two years or so.

The new hardware prolly has some kinks that need working out. I'm already fearful for when we get the patch today :(

Lol @ server restart in 15m.. hoping for the best.

Was hoping to kill thaddius today on this 'new' hardware..

By the sound of it, you will be lucky just raiding.

Best of luck to you guys! Our server was a goddamn mess for a while up until the restart. Hopefully it stays this way, instead of becoming a piece of crap later in the night. Especially when it so conviniently decides to shit a brick during a tense boss fight :/

New hardware... potentially stronger rogues... all sorts of stealth Naxx tweaks that likely weren't mentioned in the patch notes...

Gonna be a good night to raid.

When a warrior is moved out of a group for battleshout, that group will lose the battleshout buff :(

Stealth nerf?

That's been the case for quite a while.

Never noticed it before.

They fixed Anub's evade bug. Also our warlock reported he was immune to Curse of Tongues.




Edit: Then our instance crashed and we fell through the world.

Every instance on our server crashed and every single person was stacked in a huge stack of dead people in the middle of the world. The repair guys sure made some money tonight....

sigh.

Queue up in the battlegrounds to rez. You shouldn't have taken any durability hit from the falling (we didn't at least).

We're just getting instance not found errors at every turn.

shitheap/delete if you want, but I thought this picture had good visual representation of tonight:

http://www.unc.edu/~fan/WoWScrnShot_082206_224247.jpg

Couldn't even get into instances on Daggerspine, random lockups, restarts, all that fun stuff. To be honest who didn't expect there to be problems though, there's just no way for them to accurately stress test for cross server BGs of this magnitude. Hopefully it'll just be an issue for a day or two.

Patch notes say something along the lines of this:
Curse of Tongues - Targets immune to the slowing effect of Curse of Tongues will now be immune to the debuff.
Basically, if CoT doesn't slow down a mob's casting speed, you won't be able to land it.
My guild used CoT on Anub'rekhan to slow down the Locust Swarm cast, last reset it appeared that he was casting faster, which caused our MT to comment that perhaps CoT was no longer working (even though the debuff was clearly on him). We pulled him today and experienced the same CoT Immunity that you did (CoT wouldn't land).

While I like the change to CoT overall, removing Warlock utility from the Anub'rekhan encounter doesn't sit right. It's one of the few bosses where our debuffs made a noticible difference. If anything, there should be more places where short-duration high impact debuffs play a role.

CoT never worked on Anub to my knowledge. We tried it first kill and timed it quite carefully. No change in cast time.

Brodda is correct. It never worked. People just thought it worked because there is a short casting time on locust swarm that allows you to run out of range.

I've never been happier to be wrong. Thanks for clearing this up.

This was not fixed, you can still have him evade.

Edit - unless the picture was meant as a joke along this line, in that case I don't understand jokes.