Why this?

[Katmandue]

<p>This is what was posted for todays "scheduled" update:</p><p><b><span style="color: #990000;">PvP</span></b></p><ul><li><span style="color: #990000;">Damage Shields granted from LoN items will no longer force players into combat on PvP servers.</span></li></ul><p><span style="color: #990000;">Message edited by Gnobrin on 08/31/2007 10:36:05. </span></p><p> My question is, why would a change to fix damage shields forcing players into combat on PvP servers cause all the problems I've been reading about on PvE servers?</p>

[Garath]

<cite>Katmandue wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>This is what was posted for todays "scheduled" update:</p><p><b><span style="color: #990000;">PvP</span></b></p><ul><li><span style="color: #990000;">Damage Shields granted from LoN items will no longer force players into combat on PvP servers.</span></li></ul><p><span style="color: #990000;">Message edited by Gnobrin on 08/31/2007 10:36:05. </span></p><p> My question is, why would a change to fix damage shields forcing players into combat on PvP servers cause all the problems I've been reading about on PvE servers?</p></blockquote>Could be totally unrelated.Issues from today sounds like a database problem. I.e. things not updating properly, buffs not sticking, status changes not saving.

[Gnevil]

Because the items exist on all live servers not just PVP servers so it has to be fixed on all servers thus the patch which ultimately seems to have led to the complete breakdown of the servers.... lol It's not untypical to have something go horribly wrong when you are making change to code that is millions of lines long ...