I’ve had the same situation happen to me yesterday - not sure if it was Nexus or UK, but yeah, lvl 79 getting legitimately logged via RDF, each of us getting 200xp per mob, kicking the poor guy. I see several levels of mistakes here - and Blizzard is to blame for every single one of them:
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The whole RDF range, which seems broken kind of in general - Vanilla, TBC and WotLK dungeons seem to be available later than they should (has been reported a while ago, to no avail). Also there are dungeons you can get via RDF, but can’t pick up the quests for being too low lvl (Violet Hold from the top of my head), which seems wierd too. This isn’t exactly game breaking, just doesn’t make sense.
I also understand the “anti-boost” protection in lowering the xp reward to nothing in case there is a too high lvl in the group - fair idea, why not (and not using this system would be just as fair…it’s just arbitrary). What is beyond my understanding though is letting UK and Nexus be available to lvl 79 though - just cap them at say lvl 77 and it all starts to work just fine…as intended, tbh. -
Getting a deserter after being kicked from the group, really? I simply am not able to think of a single good reason behind this mechanic, can someone perhaps enlighten me? I lived under the impression that the Deserter buff is a punishment for leaving the group (check the name after all, for god’s sake). Getting a deserter when other people decide they don’t want you in the group, when there is nothing that forces them to only kick for rational reasons (and there can never be, such a thing doesn’t exist, people will always abuse, it just is what it is) and ESPECIALLY when there is actually a good reason for people to kick you in certain cases (like the one in this topic)…that’s just pure nonsense.
Deserter after being kicked should be removed immediately, period. The only thing that could be abused if it wasn’t there is someone just porting out of the dungeon and not leaving - but at that point, he is to blame for being a j**k, not the entire system for being stupid in the first place.
The situation that happened to the creator of this topic is purely Blizzard’s fault. He can’t be blamed for using RDF in a way that it is supposed to be used and the other 4 people can’t be blamed for kicking him when having him effectively ruins their lvling. Blizzard allowing this to happen, when the fix is literally overwriting a few numbers (max rdf lvl) or removing a deserter buff (somewhat more complex, but still easy fix)…that’s just sad. Very lightly put.