So I was gonna help my friend out with some elites quests today, did some and then he asked me to go SFK with him, we started a group for it and when he starts to fly from SW to Wetlands he get dismounted from the fly path over searing gorge.
The amazement of how you cant fix the game propperly is worse then small indie companies… Its a shame really, and the fly path fix you tried to do would never been a thing if you dident do hardcore but even then you cant do it propperly. What a shame…
The odd thing is I have never “fallen off” a mount, in any version of the game and I’ve been playing since 2005.
It never happen to me eaither, but just happen to my friend and it kinda yikes that he wont get the char back due to a game error. For me, thats acually just stupid.
To be fair; if this is what happened report as a bug etc and probably would get his character back.
They have said there is no appeals what so ever 
Even the dude who fall through the wall in ST dident get an appeal with video evidence…
I actually dismounted slightly prior the flight path at Redridge and then got ported back to SW’s FM like I never started the flying at all which was kind of funny. Atleast I didn’t die here but eh, I reported that bug tho.
They don’t take video evidence no, not even for other things. It may be taken to locate certain logs but otherwise is not taken as evidence for an unban/rollback/etc.
We took the boat from Wetlands to Darkshore 1 hour before this happened and after the loading screen he got TPed to Wetlands graveyard, so he had some bugs even before this happened sadly, but yeah, he go agane but still annoying that he die from something thats not hes fault 
Strange, as I recall getting dc-ed during flight would just drop you at the next availanle stop ( should have been IF in this case). Maybe it is a bug in this dc rollback thing I’ve heard about (not sure if it actually exists). Could be he got rolled back to an earlier point in the flight…without the gryphon. Anyway sounds like a bug that should be looked at.
It has happen a few times for me on Classic Era, always due to a mid-air DC and when you get back you are falling. Levitate is king here!
So if the similar thing happened to the OPs friend it wasn’t the flight but a disconnection.
Well yes, however, dropping to your death upon disconnect on a hc realm is pretty glaring bug, is it not? Also I’ve had it happen without disconnect either, but with a mesaage “Instance failed to load: transit aborted” when crossing to a new zone on a gryphon.
He never D/Ced, he just got dropped over Searing gorge, survived the fall but aggroed spiders who are lvl 48, still a “death by falling of fly path” kinda thing tho
Hmm never suffered this, id be curious to what caused it. Sounds like a weird bug
Seems 2019 is the earliest record of this happening in classic
One guy out of 1 million. Some people randomly fall through the ground in sinkholes irl as well. It sucks, but thats how it is.
I have been avoiding flight paths to save some silver. Probably I will continue to do so to avoid dying.
This one so much yes! Falling and dying to Instance faile. Whatever is that.
But always when DC in flight I be back on Gryphon. Sometines same place, sometimes little earlier in route. Always – if not know to me place beneath – get XP for discover some zone.
Sometimes also get TPed back to start place, never just dropped.
Sounds like new bug.
What are you for real!? Wow!!!
Seriously man, can you stop posting in every thread regarding any form of issue with the game and say “oh this never happened to me” and play it off as nothing is wrong. Your constant arrogance is actually pissing me off. You are not the centre of the universe and your experience is not necessarily the same as other peoples experiences.
I had this happen to me in the exact same place, by the sounds of it. Luckily it was on regular classic realms though and not hardcore. I believe it has to do with the classic layering when switching zones. And well, layering surely has its problems.
I have had problems in the past so I do comment when I have had them too.
I have never denied it doesn’t happen to other people.
This being a thing that happened to me a couple times when Classic first released, it has been a slight worry that it might still be around.
Usually got the ‘‘instance not found: transfer aborted’’ or something similar and just dropped me in between zones.
Considering my only death so far has been to a mob killing me through a wall while being out of LoS, it is clear that the biggest threats in HC are from lack of quality control.
Not that is comes as a surprise, kinda feel sorry for that one blind & deaf guy they have chained up in the basement dealing with everything Classic-related.