Lost another 40 lvl character to what seems to be a server-wide lag

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So, I was first-timing a mage in classic. Did all 3 mage quests for Tabetha and was running through Dustwallow to turn them in and see what’s the reward gonna be. When suddenly when I was running near 36 level raptor and pressed Blink, it started having infinite animation… At that moment I knew it was trouble.

The funny thing was that chat didn’t stop working, so I could continue chatting with guildmates. It was unlcear if it will unlag and it’s better to wait it out or insta alt+f4 and relog. Then I remembered that the exact same thing happened when SoD server update was implemented and I had exactly the same kind of lag which was only fixed after re-opened the game.

So I did that but ofc when I was able to log in it was too late. The fact that I always have to “change realm” before logging to anniversary didn’t help either. Killed by a -3 levels raptor at full health, mana and even with the Light of Elune macro ready.

This seems to be a server issue. I don’t usually get any lags/DCs, and another guildie was asking several times if ppl had lags that day since he had DCs. Apparently not everyone gets DCs when the servers are bad but there’s a number of people who do.

So, 40 level mage dead to DC. 36 level priest dead to DC. Both had all the professions meticulously leveled up too. Basically the servers kill my characters and end my hardcore challenge whenever they feel like it. There’s absolutely no measures by Blizzard to prevent DC player deaths - no DC revives, no system messages like “today the server is having issues, please make sure you’re safe or play tomorrow”, nothing. So is HC is just a lottery of getting unlucky DC timing and as a punishment for not playing hunter? I thought it was supposed to be a fair challenge.

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Yes. No revives whatsoever. Do DC deaths suck? Yes. But you´ll go again anyway.

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Way back in the day I remember Battle.net showing notifications when the servers were laggy, like “certain players may experience connection issues”. I didn’t really have connection problems when these messages popped up, but it was nice to see that Blizzard would inform users about it. And there was no HC back then.

And now when there is HC it would be really helpful if they continued this tradition.

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Well. The customer service back in the day was great. Today you can´t even use the words customer service as it´s basically non existent if you don´t count automated systems.

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Agreed. Today human involvement is more for damage control. And I guess informing all users about potential problems for the few can be counted as “self-inflicted bad publicity” even if it’s the truth. Not to mention that if you lose an HC character of high level you’re much more likely to buy classic era transfer as well.

Still it’s good to give Blizzard a good thought and suggest a solution. It it catches enough publicity they might do it. So I hope this practice of informing users about potential problems with connection will return. Because I’m 100% certain these types of lags happen exactly when big updates are being done on the server side. And they result in horrible experience for HC players.

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It´s free of charge.

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I didn’t know this, that is fantastic news! Thank you very much! So I can at least continue playing the character.