Phasing

Alexanderz · April 2014

The phasing in this game is horrid. At one point me and my gf took down a dark fissure only not to be able to loot the mobs as when we ran over to them they vanished into another phase. Same when were traveling somewhere on horseback. One of us will vanish shortly for no reason what so ever?!? Also i cant see how the server can be called a "megaserver" when most of the people are phased! Kinda kills the whole community/world thing don't it? I would rather have shards...

Please ZOS. Once you got these painful bugs sorted do something about all this phasing. Its waaaaay to overkill!

This game will be EPIC if you get on top of these issues!

P.S.

+1 for extra draw distance/64bit client :P

Vyshan · April 2014

The phasing system is disastrous. It's really bad when you try to get together for guild functions/events, and people keep fading into, and out of, reality.
Or they get killed by monsters no one else can see. Or they're blocked by physical barriers that don't exist for anyone else.

This is, genuinely I believe, the worst implemented and conceived system in an MMORPG. Several MMOs use phasing (Rift, WoW and EverQuest 2 for example) and none of them have these crippling issues.

Unfortunately, as a core system of ESO, it's not something that can be realistically changed in the near future.

Calaban · April 2014

If I recall they said a while back that they were looking into solutions. It may take a while for them to fix it but I'm confident they will.

Fenbrae · April 2014

Um, the entire point of the megaserver is the phasing.
If you were to place all the people in the same instance, it would lag horribly and everything would get farmed by hordes of people.

Also, i like the megaserver a lot better than shards/servers. I'd rather have one big server instead of multiple half empty ones.

Arsenic_Touch · April 2014

It is pretty terrible. I came to this game from Defiance, and they had a similar phasing system. While the game didn't prioritize friends or guild members, it did note on your friend list whether they were in the same phase or not.

They need to do something like guild wars did and make districts that you can check in the top left or right corner.

If a district is full, it spins up another one and dumps you in there. So on and so fourth. If your friend is in a full one, and you aren't, your friend can just port to your district and you can play together.

Problem solved.