Party changes can shift your world instance, a known bug

Kaivax’s beta known issues of September 24 include one for group play: forming a party, or changing its members, can move players into a different world instance. Blizzard said improvements were under way. The October 1 build adjusted world instances, and party leaders should no longer be moved when a party forms or changes.

The September 24 build let five classes test the Cooldown Manager, and most new lines concern cooldown tracking. The Healthstone cooldown, Arcane Blast, pet cooldowns and enhancements on items, Windfury and rogue poisons among them, can’t be tracked. A Mage’s Mana gem needs one more spell cast before its cooldown tracks properly, Priests track every spell by default, and Banes and Curses lose track if you drop your target and pick up one that already has either.

Stormwind’s minimap has display issues that a later build will fix, and the Personal Resource Display shows no combo points. The next beta build resolves two more: Sentinel Lynessa Duskblossom’s speed and Strike spam in the Teldrassil quest “Escaping Ban’ethil”, and the Loch Modan quest “Snowbound” giving too much experience.

Why it matters: if a party change moved you to another world instance, that was a known issue.