Solutions for the falling of flight problem

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Hello,

Today my friend fell off the griffin mid flight. He was fast and used light of elune, so he’s still alive. Though he would’ve been dead if he was afk, and now his light of elune is gone because of a bug.

Blizzard said they might gonna do something about this (teleporting you to a safe spot if you fall off) but nothing I’ve heard been implemented yet and imo isn’t even that reliable.

My solutions to this problem are two suggestions:

The first one is a slow fall every time you dismount from the griffin, even if it’s not because of a bug. This solution is probably not fail proof since when you DC on flight the game might not register that you dismount when you log in.

The second and better solution is to just let us teleport with the flight master like we did on the zeppelin to northrend when wotlk classic released. Maybe even add a timer for how long the flight takes that you are locked in place and then teleport to your location so it doesn’t get abused.

Any other ideas? I’m sick of being scared every time I’m flying and buying petri flasks just to survive bugs.

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They could also just fix the servers.
Flight points worked fine when game was release almost 19 years ago.

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Well, this will simply not happen. Therefore we need to get a different solution, to be able to use such a vital tool in the game safely.

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Think of all the things they will break in the game for adding a simple teleport feature? I mean … what can possibly go wrong?

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Maybe, but it is broken now anyways

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My toon just died on a Gryphon flight from Ironforge to Menethil harbor. I got a message on the screen saying: Instance not found, transfer aborted. Next thing I see my toon falling to death. This is not fair no matter how Bliz says toons will not be resurrected for any reason.

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Exactly the same happened to my friend, with the same message.

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This just happend to me. I fell to my death on a Hardcore server.

Is there any way how i can get in contact with someone from blizzard for this?

I am convinced that this really is not fair and i would like to ask if they can do anything about it.

I have been playing WoW for a while now and i would hate for this to be the end of it :frowning:

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Whatever fix they would decide on would introduce 10 new game-breaking bugs. Its better to keep playing Russian-gryphon-roulette and hover over the LIP staring at your flying toon, with sweat streaming down your forehead as you fly out to open water …. Oh the horror!

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Guys please keep this thread for suggesting solutions to the problem. I understand you get frustrated by these deaths, but Blizzard won’t do anything to get your characters back, but they will listen to how we can prevent these deaths.

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If they make an exception for you then they have to open the gates for exceptios for everyone. They will not do this for obvious reasons, financial being only one o them.

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Another issues gonna be where u land. If a 25 gets thrown off in searing gorge, ur gonna die to the mobs u land.

The solutions would be

  • when u get on the gryphon it instantly loads you to the next gryphon to skip the entire flight so 0 risk even if DC.

  • apply immunity for 15 seconds upon gryphon despawning regardless if reachs tower or not to allow HS in the off chance it happens.

  • or blizzard implement a system where theyre able to track flights ao they can restore characters that fall to the bug

I wish u luck if u try.

They havent even done anything for the fact their unannounced server shut down killed 20% of the stitches server

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Really good take and I agree with the searing gorge part.

However I would strongly advise some kind of timer though, to keep the Era feeling with waiting times to travel to places. An instant teleport would just feel to much retail like imo, where getting places just are is fast.

Thank you for your input!

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oh sweet summer child …

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I’ve played WoW on and off since 2005 :slight_smile:
We saw Blizzard do the teleport on zeppelin on Classic Wotlk. So yeah, they will listen to their players from time to time. Let’s just hope this is one of those times

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Or what Xaryu suggested, apply slow fall buff for duration of flight path. That way if you get dismounted, slow fall, if you don’t, nothing happens.

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Yeah thats also smart, but as someone else in the thread stated that what if you dismount in a high level zone? Then you fall to a certain death.

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Can you HS in slow fall?

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I highly doubt it. Also it probably takes less than 10s to reach the ground anyways

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Rigth. Good suggestion, but most won’t survive then as most flights take us over highlevel zones, lava or deep sea :frowning: