Crash into Hole bug / glitch

[playj]

I had two level 100 characters crash and when I reconnected they were both in the Hole zone that I had not visited in 8 years.

The characters were down by the water.

What was really interesting was that everything in the whole zone was aggro!

So it took about a minute to kill everything.

did /who npc and there was nothing left

This guy: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=5145 was first to repop in about a minute.

Got a a whole bunch of Loam encrused + defiant stuff + gems + plat.

Overall, that was a nice bonus for 2 mins of work.

 

[Razkle]

hmm you have way better luck crashing into the hole then I do, all I ever get is my wife screaming at me for crashing into the hole.... (ok funny to me)

 

[playj]

Update: had a character have the whole of Plane of Sky aggro on him (thanks Eye of Veeshan for 65k dmg) when he logged back from LD in a completely different zone.

 

[playj]

Necroing this thread since the bug is back.

It seems to be caused by DBG testing instances for the next TLP expansion.

So now I am getting Luclin zone mobs all aggro onto my char in a Freeport instance.

What is funny is that this time I turned on my healer merc to be safe and got the warning that there were too many mercs in zone, so after 120 seconds merc got suspended again but that was enough for heals.

So far I've gotten all of The Umbral Plains on me at once, that was fun to kill.
More annoying was Akheva Ruins, Shei and the gang got me blinded and I did not finish killing. Always wanted those shears

I suppose one could try to replicate this by getting an instance and then going LD on purpose.

This time, the mobs are scowling or threatening but they do not attack immediately so next time one could set up the right spells for an aoe party, get buffed and then go all out.

Can't wait to get Vex Thal or Sssra...

EDIT: Got Katta Castellum http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/zone.html?zstrat=145 mobs today unfortunately the mobs were instant KOS and killed my mage in about 30 secs while I was afk, just a bunch of Centurions and Legionnaires ganged up on me. Did not see Icea.

I think the key to get this glitch is go LD while in an instance, and then come back when the instance is expired.

 

[Sum1]

So, wait, how are you controlling what zone you end up in when you log back in?

Also, is the zone that insta-agros you in its entirety a full respawn? So in other words, do you get access to mobs that might not otherwise be up or due to spawn? I'm thinking NTov.

 

[playj]

What happens is this:

I am in an instance I crash to desktop and I relog when the instance is expired. (This is the KEY).

I get a South Queynos zone instance, with ALL of the mobs of some zone aggro on me.

It used to be old world, then Kunark, then Velious, now it is Luclin.

I've gotten all of Sssra now, unfortunately my mage gets owned by all these 100-200 hits. High Priest got the killshot.

I've also gotten Sanctus Seru and gotten killed by the Butthead...http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=9030
There is some mob which has a 65k DD not sure which one which does the initial damage.

I will have to LD my SK with full buffs some time and see what happens.

Edit: yet another SSRA with fabled now...