Hello,
Today my character died because it was dropped from the flight path while flying to UC from badlands. It has simply fallen down in Westfall. This is so frustrating after taking care to not die, levelling in safer locations etc. Dying after doing everything you can to a simple bug that Blizzard hasn’t fixed for nearly 20 years is unacceptable.
Premise of a hardcore server is good but these kind of stuff make playing the game meaningless… You can simply die dropping off a flight path after getting to 60 and getting full raiding gear, grinding for hours. “We will not restore dead hardcore characters for any reason” this sentence doesn’t fly when characters can die in such idiotic ways that you can have no control over. There should at least be an option for some characters to be restored after inspection.
I’ll most likely be quitting wow itself since I only wanted to play because of hardcore. Well I simply wanted to vent, stay safe and good luck everyone.
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I don’t recall this issue on the vanilla days. They dedicated way more resources to the servers back then as there was no other WoW version. It would seem that hardcore classic servers cannot handle the amount of players in them and therefore new glitches and bugs arise, like falling from flight path.
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So you fall when transferred to another layer? I know joining groups transfers you to another layer, what else could have triggered it?
I think it’s not that exactly. You fall when transferred to another layer AND it fails.
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When you entering a new zone sometimes, do you see ppl running in place? Thats also a layer issue even if you are on the same layer, so everytime you enter a new zone on a FP there is a chance of this bug happening. (Probably also by joining a group and changing layer aswell)
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I also didn’t remember this happening in vanilla but it has been so long so I just assumed it also happened back then sorry about that.
But isn’t fixing this simple? Even if you can’t solve layer issue create another layer just for flight paths so every person flying would be in just one layer and they will switch back to their layers when flight ends.
The maddening part is, they probably don’t even think about any solutions to this problem. They knew about this problem for a while now. There are parachutes in game. They can simply give automatic parachute to in game wyverns and griffons in case of dropping.
I wrote a ticket to officially see if they are going to do anything to fix this issue. I’ll share the response.
You know, nothing is easy to fix for a small indie company, you need to understand they are under very heavy load all the time with those 5 ppl working on the whole game.
Thank you. As far as I know there is no official acknowledgement of this bug.
Oh boy, the ooooold gryphon masters were a pain in prime raid hours, back in the days.
Literally a raid of 100 people in a single zone using spells “could” crash a server back then.