Coward! Debuff is irrational and needs changed

WoW Classic WoW Classic Hardcore
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Goofing around with my brother we dueled to the death on a boat. The boat took off and cancelled the duel, but left me with the “Coward!” debuff.

Nowhere in game does it tell you this is a consequence to fleeing a duel but I was willing to accept the consequences of my actions and logged out of the character for a few days. Now today logging back in and seeing that it’s IN GAME TIME is absolutely ridiculous.

Blizzard this literally makes the character completely unplayable and might as well be dead. This needs to be changed to 3 days real time or give a proper warning on the “I agree” screen before challenging. I am not the best player in the world so getting to level 24 was a huge undertaking for me.

I am super proud of my character and just wanted to explore a mechanic I am unfamiliar with. What can be done about this?

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It’s unplayable and your character might as well be dead because you fled from a makgora and you’re a shameful coward.

And no, I don’t believe you were “dueling on a boat with your brother”. lol

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This isn’t some troll post. That’s literally what we were doing. He just lost his warlock so I was escorting his new toon from Teldrassil to Dun Morogh and we were bored waiting for the boat goofing off.

And yes, I’m probably just going to use this character as a bank alt now which really sucks.

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I mean, it’s just 3 days. But yeah, should be fixed.

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next time don’t duel on a boat :roll_eyes: not everything needs to be “fixed” because you did something silly

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agree. user error.

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Just out of curiosity, what did you expect the outcome to be?

If the duel had concluded one of you would have been dead, so what were you thinking would happen?

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I assumed the mechanic worked like a normal duel. That if you flee it’s done. I had no idea this would have happened or I would not have done it.

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I mean if it worked like regular duels where fleeing makes you lose, in hardcore fleeing a mak’gora would just kill you instead.

Now you just gotta leave the character logged in while you do other stuff for 3 days /played, or reroll.

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lol

Would a hug help, friend?

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People really will complain about anything.

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Yes a hug does help friend /hug Thanks!

Lot of people seem to be flocking to this post to tell me how stupid I am. I appreciate the criticism but I believe I’m not alone when I say this is my first experience with Hardcore.

I never played with the hardcore addon everybody else was using on classic so I am still learning. Remember that not everybody has the same experiences or skill that you do.

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I don’t think that was a very safe assumption to make.

On the bright side, it would probably be less than 72 hours /played to get back to 24.

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Oh, please don’t get the idea that I wasn’t.

Less for trying it out, and more for crying about a meaningless debuff.

You know the truth, why would you care what anyone else thinks?

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You agreed to a duel to the death on a hardcore server. You’re lucky the game doesn’t just kill you for fleeing the duel. Be grateful it’s just a limited debuff.

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Why would they invent an entirely new dual that acts exactly as the existing one does?

Sorry, not buying it.

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Don’t duel to the death if you are unwilling to face the consequences.

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That was a really bad assumption.

The duel prompt could do with warning you if you choose to flee you will be severely punished, but it exists for a reason.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

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Actually this brings up an interesting question. You both fled the duel, did you both get the coward debuff? If not, I wonder how it decided who got it.

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Why does this community think I killed my character on purpose? People aren’t allowed to experiment with NEW game mechanics to learn them?

It honestly does not bother me that you guys think I’m stupid. I know I’m stupid for playing around with it. What gets me is that people seem to think I lied about how it happened.

I made this post for Blizzard feedback. I think the mechanic is broken and should be patched at some point.

My opinion is that the duel to the death prompt should say something along the lines of “Fleeing from this duel will result in becoming a coward for 3 in game days.” Simple fix

/goodbye

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