Name: Valinia - Realm: Skeram
Date: 09.03.2019
Pets/guards: none
A mage and myself fought in pvp. He iceblocked for the full duration (which is 8 sec I believe ?!) while I used a bandage on me and neither of us got out of combat. He ran away and I tried to use “distract” on him but he was kept in combat. So way longer than 8 sec.
make sure your pet feigns death too? and if youve got the second companion pet that it too feigns … my problem is feign death failing to work so much. Char just moans and stands there
Often have to close the game down and delete cache to get out of combat. Returning to game is a 50/50 chance whether char survived without me or is dead.
Seem to be lots of ways you can get into combat unknowingly. One really infuriating one, you run past a sleeping mob, far enough away to not wake him but within his aggro range if he were awake. And you’re stuck in combat.
Realizing the whole in-combat logic is way complicated, what about a Help option similar to the one for getting stuck in a physical location. Player then needs to stand still and do absolutely nothing for 60 or 90 seconds, without any interaction with mobs or other players. Then the in-combat flag gets turned off.
Or maybe some way of finding out just who the heck you’re in combat with. That’d help.
Your character name and realm: Verdigris - Velen
The date and time of the incident: Sept. 17, approx 10:50pm Eastern time
Which pets and/or bodyguards you had active: None
Any steps you took to eventually get out of combat : Hearthed to the Pandaria Shrine
Stuck in combat occured while doing the Trogg Trouncing world quest at Norwington Estate. The wq completed but even after dismounting from Cooper, running to another world quest, and completing that wq, I remained in combat.
The [Revel in Violence] buff from 8.3 is going to make this all sorts of awful, just adding a new layer. It seems to re-root every time a stack drops. For six seconds. Even if you’re mounted in the air.
BioWare has a similar issue on Odessen (chapter 8 KotET) in SWTOR has similar problems, and SWTOR is based on WoW, might be worth a call?
Character: Habaneras
Realm: Baelgun (Horde)
Zone: Stormsong, Brennadam
Time/Date: 6:15 PM MST, 10/19/19
Incident: Attacked an alliance player in this city, they phased out as soon as I stunned them. Then disappeared. Afterward, I could not drop combat at all. Tried to /reload, and still in combat. This is the second time in a couple weeks this has happened to me. Last time was in Tiragarde Sound. It is extremely frustrating, and for me, it is usually PVP involved. The last time was during an invasion, I was trying to complete one of the invasion quests in the Bridge Port area when I was attacked by an alliance player. I ran and could not drop combat at all.
Resolution: I had to eventually hearth out of the area for it to work. The last time it happened I had to run the entire length of the zone to the boat back to zuldazar. Also wanted to mention the last time it happened, even Cntl Alt -F4 and reloading the game didn’t break combat.
Hope this info helps to try and resolve the issue!
Realm - Azuremyst
Character name - Marakeshi
Date/Time - ongoing
Follower - n/a
Steps taken - walked across Zuldazar, ALT-F4 to exit game, logged back in a still stuck in combat. Will go away after 20-30 minutes but if I engage a mob again it’s back to being stuck in combat. I haven’t seen it this bad in quite awhile, not sure if it’s just a mage thing or a blizzard programming thing…
Chroniz - Emeral Dream
12-11-2019 @ 0930
N/A
Had to Hearthstone or leave Hellfire Citadel (Raid) in order to loot boss chests or use portals. EXTREMELY frustrating. Please fix ASAP.
It’s currently happened to several of my toons in the past week. All of them are on Kil’Jaeden realm. The current toon that is stuck is Shocknfail (12/11/2019) started happening around 6:45pm EST in Nazmir and I haven’t gotten it to stop (i.e. I’m still in combat). With the other toons, I was able to log out and/or completely exit the game to get my toon out of combat. However, that hasn’t worked here.
Other things I have tried: 1. finishing the quest; 2. running out of the zone (i.e. running out of Nazmir – which was fun because I was by the raid zone); 3. hearthing out – more on that later; 4. reloading; 5. logging out; 6. completely exiting the game and battle.net; and, finally, 7. completely exiting the game, battle.net, restarting my computer and saying a praying (and, as an agnostic, I find this rather obnoxious). Getting back to the attempt to hearth out… Yes, I could use my hearthstone but could not fly or use a flight point. And, after coming back into the game, my toon registered that it wasn’t in combat until I went back into Nazmir – as if Nazmir was glitched; so as long as I stayed out of Nazmir my toon was fine but the minute I landed in Nazmir, everything went haywire again.
This is easy to replicate, but it doesn’t work in PTR, which makes me think you may have fixed this.
Use a DK, go to Acherus, hit one of the target dummies. Stuck in combat when walking away. Jump off into the water … still stuck in combat. Walk across the water to Stormheim… still stuck in combat.
It’s a beautiful thing. I’d like an update on this. You said you’d communicate with us more.
This character, just now, stuck in combat for the first two of my set of three island expeditions from the first combat to finishing the island – unable to mount. Jorundal was one of them. Rotting Mire the other.
JUST got stuck in combat in Uldum on PTR with one of the guys that’s eternally fighting mobs and yellow for whatever stupid reason. One of the cat dudes. So if this is still present in 8.3 it hasn’t been fixed.
My Warlock continually gets stuck in combat while running Hellfire Citadel (Mythic).
It seems to have something to do with your demons. Even when zero targets exist, the respective pet kill flag for mobs inside the instance seem to “stick” on their death, resulting in the stuck in combat bug until I force-exit the instance.
Swapping to any other spec does NOT fix this, nor does dismissing your pet. Extremely annoying as being stuck in combat means you can’t progress through each wing’s portal.
What about now that 8.3 is out?
It HAD seemed to be getting better, but now it’s worse. I have run for half a zone stuck in combat. In the 8.3 zones this is seriously bad because the density and attacks of the mobs are way “more” than before 8.3. There is just about zero actual free space… AND being “in combat” one can NOT mount and get up in the air.
Ashkink Nemisis
Jan 12 2020 17:29 BRT
None
Can’t remove it. So atm no fix yet been occurring for the last 10minutes.
Character: Tylennol
Realm: Bleeding Hollow
Zone: Horrific Vision Stormwind
Time: Tuesday about 3pm est.
Incident: Was in horrific Vision with my friend (Faolu) when we got stuck in combat with nothing and couldn’t use our orb to regain sanity
Resolution: Died and lost all progress on our Vision run
Same issue today. 2 man party wiped because we were just standing there in combat with a whole area cleared. Died , he used his revive ability and was still in combat. Not sure how both of us can die and then he comes back and still is in combat. Lost our upgrade to this . Lots of bug reports for this and no response from anyone. That’s 10k down the drain.
Character: Xinoy on Bronzebeard
Date & Time: 1/22/2020 @ 6:30pm est to 8:00pm est
No Pets or Body Guards
Incident: I was in a horrific vision in SW and after both defeating the objective in the Dwarven district and upon returning to the Cathedral district I was still registered as “in combat”. The first time i did the vision ( and failed due to sanity loss and not being able to activate orbs) this happened right after killing the guards in front of the cathedral entrance. The 2nd time I decided to kill them on my way to the dwarven district to see if that changes but to no avail. Once i made my way back to the final boss I had to make sure i killed her with only 1/3 a sanity bar.
Fixes: Dying in the vision and being teleported to rewards room is what took me out of combat.