… a way of fixing a bug that has been in the game for the entirety of its run.
The “Stuck in Combat” bug.
That frustrating, downright irritating bug that has plagued this game ever since it’s release in 2004.
SOME classes and races get a way out of it. Just some. If you’re a hunter, rogue, or night elf. But what about the rest of us?
We seriously need a way beyond alt+f4ing out of the game to fix this.
We still don’t have a way of listing everything that is in combat with us, we still don’t have a way of breaking combat unless you’re one of the aforementioned lucky people who do.
Why not give everybody a 10-20 second cast that ends combat with everything assuming you don’t take any damage during the cast of it?
Something, anything. I just spent nearly 5 minutes walking without anything attacking me, and I am STILL stuck in combat.
Oh man I was leveling my rogue, she was like 58 in gorgrond, doing rexxar stuff, and then out of nowhere I couldn’t reenter stealth.
Ok so I vanish, still can’t mount because I’m in combat.
Ok so I’ll kill myself, respawn and I can stealth yay! Wait why is my mount greyed out? Still in combat…
I RELOG, still in combat…
I had to, as a solo rogue, kill like 40 mobs and 3 elites to finish these quests to get to 60. Which with normal stealth is already a PITA. But without being able to normal stealth… I almost quit.
Couldn’t even hit 60 had to finish that level with stuff back in storm wind because the only thing that fixed it was leaving chromie time.
oh…they could have fixed this crap easy enough. Just auto remove you from combat after youve not fired or been hit after X minutes. They choose not to fix it .
and its literally on the list of reasons hunter is now my main. I got so sick of being ‘in combat’ so many times that Feign Death was added to my list of things needed to be able to play the game.
ive even logged out for a bit, logged back in and STILL been ‘in combat’ when its happened. lmao.
There isnt a single game other than this one…ever…that Ive played that has this problem.
…and I’ll add…sorry forgot to mention…that not getting something looted is nearly always the cause of the bug from my experience, which is why I get the loot a rang on every character. It finds what you might not be able to see that you still need to loot.
so I’ll be stuck in combat. Fire off the rang and suddenly Im not in combat anymore.
ive literally tested it more than a dozen times where Im stuck in combat, then go find what I missed looting and immediately Im out of combat.
The problem still exists in cases where I did miss looting something and left the area. Now I have no clue where it might be if Ive been mowing down world mobs all over.
and it being a BUG is PRECISELY the reason why it WOULDNT affect everyone the same contrary to someones fallacious views in the matter.
I can’t think of a reason why you’d want an unlimited leash on a critter, a mob that can’t even attack anything. Why do they aggro at all? They should just immediately drop combat with the player.
I was in the Jade Forest. There were no such critters nearby.
None of those abilities, I actually have or use. Literally the ONLY AoE I use as a Fury Warrior is Whirlwind.
None of which were in this area.
It’s a random bug that is very sporadic, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.
Yes, I did notice, and yes I did look, and there were no such critters running around.
And again, they could fix this by making critters forget about stuff or auto-remove their own debuffs after 5-10 seconds and then drop combat if that were really what is causing this (which it isn’t).
It’s rare that logging out or Alt+F4ing doesn’t fix it, but it does happen now and then and I can attest to it happening. It’s extremely frustrating when it does.
Literally your only recourse becomes using the Hearthstone.
I agree Blizz either needs to fix this bug, or add in a system like the character stuck thing that allows you to get out of combat in these situations.
Not in THAT particular area where I was when the bug occurred.
There were no in-fighting mobs.
There were no hostile sleeping mobs.
There were no critters running around panicked.
To be honest, if I could think of any reason why this happened, was because it was right after I fought a rare hozen. They throw these stupid banarangs and I wouldn’t be surprised if it didn’t despawn, because earlier in the same play session I had a mob that put a debuff on me, and combat did not wear off until the debuff did (which shouldn’t be happening, debuffs should not keep you in combat, but whatever).
Either way, still a bug, still frustrating, and still shows a need to give everybody, not just a few people, a way to manually break combat.
is there some particular reason you’re against this? Not like this is gonna break the game or anything. Make it a 10+ second cast that is interrupted upon taking damage so that it’s impossible to use in actual combat situations.
Not always. I’ve seen times where a logout did not clear it.
There are also times and reasons why logging out might be undesirable, such as TitanPanel’s gold per hour tracking or xp per hour tracking that gets reset with a logout.
Yeah you guys always come in here with that crap and I really don’t care to hear it. I don’t care about you I don’t care about your game and I don’t care about your claims in any way conceivable. Talk to somebody else
