First, during Rated and Random battlegrounds, I have several times experienced a bug where I fall through the world in combat, being instantly disconnected, and consecutive disconnects when trying to log back in.
To solve this without waiting 15 minutes (which is not an option in the middle of an RBG), I have to log into battle.net and use the service ‘Stuck Character service’.
This only happens to me when playing Windwalker monk, and basically weakens your rated team instantly.
When this happens twice, there is also an 8 hour cooldown to use the service, so the game basically becomes unplayable.
It is a known bug, and I can’t believe it’s still possible to randomly fall through the world, being unable to log back in - in the middle of rated pvp.
Second, when sitting long queues for Random Battlegrounds, I often experience queue pop, only to experience scoreboard due to game being over. Great logic to fill up spots in a finished game!
I used to get that disconnect bug on my WW quite a lot.
Roll off a ledge… dc on impact. Gravity Lapse brawl… dc on land. Goblin Glider would sometimes dc me too upon landing, so I get your frustration.
Now, if there’s a lot of spells/combat happening, the void elf racial will disconnect me too, upon porting.
Not usually a massive deal, just log back in & wait to res (obvs killed while dc’d).
But it really grips my poop when it’s some pivotal moment in the game (running the winning flag to keep, then dc & killed en-route). At least my games are all Randoms & no one’s rating is on the line.
I highly doubt there is a fix, or it surely would have been fixed by now.
There isn’t - every time they get asked about it, they say it isn’t fixable. The game’s anti cheating measures in combination with spaghetti code and your own latency mean that the game will sometimes register you as being beneath the world, which will instantly disconnect you to stop you cheating (in Cata, fly hacking bots would fly under the world and mine nodes while being invisible to players so they can’t click and report them)
Any movement ability can trigger the disconnect - heroic leap, disengage, glider landing, blink, leap of faith, death grip, being thunderstormed - its also why mind control disconnects so often, the game is trying so hard to make sure you aren’t fly hacking or beneath the world, that it just boots you out of the game.
Well to be clear it probably is fixable, but asking Blizzard to rewrite their anti-cheating measures and to remove problem abilities like mind control, goblin glider, blink or charge just isn’t gonna happen.
My case is different from the occasional goblin-glider disconnect, where you can log back in and continue the game.
When you fall through the world, you can see yourself falling for a while before the disconnect, and when logging back in, you will see yourself far below the ground for a second before instantly being disconnected again.
The sad thing is that I ONLY experience this as Windwalker. The last time this happened to me, I was just fighting at flag in Arathi Basin.