I was levelling a fresh alt earlier and I was tanking, which is my main role across my main and other alts when I play them. I know I am a pretty decent tank, that is why I do it.
However, in a timewalking dungeon earlier, I was in a group with 4 level 80’s and I could tell straight away that the healer wasn’t doing so great. I’m not sure if it was someone who just went in as a healer just for a fast queue or if they were generally just bad but that doesn’t really matter.
Anyway, so I do a pull before the first boss, nothing crazy. Hardly no healing and down I go. As I lay there, I think, should I initiate a vote to kick the healer? But then I thought, na, I’ll just pull less next time and manage it.
On the run back, I get kicked and given that lovely 30min penalty. If it wasn’t for that penalty, I’d just forget it and move on. But there has been a lot of threads recently about kicking people and so I’m thinking that if I’m ever in doubt in the future, should I just vote to kick, to avoid the risk of me being blamed?
On a side note, over the past year I’ve levelled multiple alts through spamming dungeons and primarily timewalking dungeons. During that time, the only occasions I’ve been kicked have been since TWW released and it has happened twice in that time. I’m not sure if being kicked resulted in a deserter debuff in DF, as it never happened to me. But if it wasn’t applied then and is now, I’d take a guess that more kicks are initiated because people know it will result in a 30min time out.
The deserter debuff was already there for over a decade. The only recent adjustment is that a debuff is also applied during mid-progress leaving for any reason too because the community once again asked for harsher measures… So Blizzard did.
I hope they revise it for older content though. Had a Zul Farrak earlier where we I spawned into an on-going dungeon, but we couldn’t kill the last boss. All the names were orange and the NPC to open the gate was gone + cages empty. Only solution was to exit and get a 30m penalty…
This is like the oomptheenth post u have made like this so I am starting to think the issue is you and not other people because I have not been kicked a SINGULAR time yet during TWW and I have levelled 3 tanks from 1 to 70-80 on top of heroics.
You also only run LFR, no m+ and on havoc which makes me believe u aren’t as good of a tank u think u are.
I do not remember community asking for that, they asked for mythic+ loot system where chest spawn at the end of dungeon, so players have no reason to leave early anymore, because it simply will not work.
Not for harsher punishments that clearly have no impact on players that play alts.
Where else have I made a post like this? I’m commented on others saying it wasn’t really an issue for me as I don’t really get kicked. I recall saying I’ve been kicked once, which was correct before today.
As for your second comment, your toxicity aside, I choose not to do M+ content as I don’t enjoy anything about it. I ran some back in DF to see what they were like and the whole concept isn’t appealing to me.