Stratholme odd bug (not what you think!)

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Hey! Was doing Stratholme on my feral druid as I do every night for the mount, just one run, when something really odd happened. I have done stratholme runs since the “boost fix” patch as well without this issue, this is entirely different but could be related:

Am in Slaughter Square, the area before entering Baron’s chamber with the Venom Belchers and Vile Spewers (Patchwerk mobs). Killed all but 2, afk’d for 5 mins and got afk flag ingame. WoW minimized. When returning I see half the room has respawned for some unknown reason, I did kill the dead mobs within the first 10 minutes before AFKing so there’s no “normal” respawn rate here.

I cleared out the respawned mobs and whilst doing so halfway though a new bunch of 6 mobs spawned around me in their natural locations spread out as they are initially…what?! This includes mobs from the FIRST “strange” respawn as well!

I clear all THOSE mobs aaaand i’m stuck. NO Rammstein, Baron execution timer on the 45-min timer ticks out and nothing happens. Scuffed run. :confused:

What’s going on? Was all this because I was AFK flagged for literally a few seconds? Is that part of the non-boosting-patch? But if it is, isn’t it counter productive? If MORE mobs spawn when someone’s flagged AFK that’s actually better for any booster and boostees?

Never seen this happen ever in any version of WoW, nor classic, happened as of tonight many days after the anti boost patch went live. ALso I wasn’t in any form of combat for over 1 minute, not even 30 seconds since I kill a normal Spewer in about 12-15 seconds normally.

Yikes. No mount attempt for me, have to HS out.

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Is crazy

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If an abbomination goes to the entrance he will despawn after a while. Never AFK in that area. And they activate one at a time. If one despawns rammstein will not come out.

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But none walked and despawned!

Before ADKing I stood infront of the last two mobs, by the side gate from where the mass aoe-undeads spawn after Rammstein, and those teo were still waddling about there when I resumed. Except almost all previous had respawned in their original spots. None doing the gate-walk.

Additionally: yesterday I did let one Spewer gate-walk and it did not despawn by the gate. It roamed back out, did a patrol lap across the room before returning to his spawnpoint where I killed it.

Still unsure why/how all of this happened. No real logic nor “standard” reason, basic or advanced/situational, comes to mind. And I’ve done thousands of runs i there across many chars and expansions ever since May 2005. Hence why I’m puzzled by this behavior.

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If you farm these abo’s for items and such you eventually will get stuck no matter if they leave the area or not. Has been a bug since an eternity. Never afk there, just kill the abo’s go into the thing and do your run.

Lost 2 runs like that in tbc too because I forgot.

Edit: That being said it happens only if they respawn, which they do fairly quickly in packs.

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