I’ve gotten one deserter because I didn’t know you had to fly away on the air ship dungeon and got vote kicked.
Got a second one after a tank lost aggro and I died then the healer didn’t rez me, and I picked up some trash in an uncleared Dire Maul and died again. Vote kicked.
Now finally in a BC TW all level 80’s in epic gear managed to wipe and I made a comment about how I hadn’t seen a wipe in ages. Tank started pointing out my DPS was low. Yea you guys are all ilvl 625 or something lol. I could see the vote kick coming so I dropped group. Now I swear I read you won’t get one if the first boss is dead. Well we only had one boss left and it gave me a deserter debuff. So if you enter a dungeon and leave for any reason it’s a 30 minute deserter apparantly.
These policies are crap. This was in one month of game time. I’m letting my sub run out tomorrow and moving on. All people do is rush TW as fast as they can, refuse to explain or elaborate and vote kick with little cause.
They changed that a few months ago, but that is how it used to work.
Also, I could see people kicking you for everything you said. Working as intended.
DM is one of those old school dungeons where if the tank doesn’t actually know the dungeon, it can go pear shaped very quickly. I only tank these days because lmao dps queues rolfmao, but I had one dps in my group quip because they got upset I was doing the dungeon properly rather than doing any silly skip shenanigans. I just ignored them and continued on. Nobody else said anything since I’m the tank and am therefore a VIP.
God I love being a tank sometimes.
ITT: Bad and inconsiderate players calling others toxic for not wanting to deal with their bad and inconsiderate behavior
You didn’t have to. I’m fairly sure folks are aware enough they died. BC dungeons do have some mechanics that can catch even geared people off guard, like the very hard hitting Satyr packs while buffed in Botanica and Void’s Void Shield.
As the saying goes, “if everywhere you go smells like dog crap, its probably under your shoe.”
All examples were caused by you OP.
Pug players can be jerks OP.
Sorry you had a group with no care left, that’s sadly how it goes lately.
Don’t let it ruin your day.
Good luck.
As someone who tanked randoms, and started to DPS…I can say I haven’t seen this, even when my DPS is below healer because I don’t know my class. Something is telling me there is more to this than OP leads on about.
This was being abused in City of Threads so now if your kicked or leave for any reason you get the 30 min penalty. It sucks but honestly keeping your mouth shut till the end of the run is your best option.
To be fair if you never did a dungeon before or unsure about a mechanic, you should ask. Now yes I know people sadly have got kicked over doing that before. But also at the same time I would have got on to the people who did kick you for not knowing as how you expect people to learn? If it was an M+ key then yeah I get it but outside of it, they should have done their part by explaining it at least.
I mean, I agree. I would’ve vote kicked you too.
Learn the dungeon in Follower Dungeons (that casuals BEGGED for) and then do the “scary” version of dungeons.
So the entire group wipes, and you said this….how did you think it was going to be received? That’s the last thing anyone wanted to hear.
You know that is is pure and undiluted BS, right?
You can’t learn anything other than neutered boss mechanics in follower dungeons.
Kick 1 was uncalled for, kick 2 could be resolved through talking,.
Drop 1 was his own fault, and he simply assumed the kick instead o playing.
Some/all of them could have been resolved by communicating, but the toxicity and lack of patience is patent.
Here they were petty. I’m sorry you had the bad luck of ending up in a group with such intolerant people.
Did you pull before or after the tank? Maybe the healer didn’t resurrect you because you could have revived at a nearby location. Which boss were you on?
Maybe they were intolerant here as well.
They probably took your comment as a personal insult (I would too), and I don’t think that was cool. High ilvl players can also make mistakes.
Maybe they weren’t actually going to kick you.
I agree that the vote kick system needs improvements.
Sometimes, we just have bad days in the game, and a series of frustrating events can happen. If you still enjoy WoW, maybe it’s worth giving it another chance after some time.
Someone said that the deserter buff doesn’t apply to all of your characters. If that’s true then all you need is to level a couple alts and rotate them. Then practice, practice, practice and if you get kicked, so what.
If that is not the case then there’s Follower Dungeons. I haven’t been kicked from one yet. And for those who want to do groups, Follower Dungeons will help you learn the mechanics for each dungeon so you will be less likely to make mistakes in groups.
Tell me you don’t know how time walking works without telling me.
I literally cannot remember the last time I was kicked from a dungeon group and got deserter.
It is so dumb this change was made much less left in place - it was only an issue week one of heroics when sweaties had nothing else to do AND were all about spamming the first boss of Ara Kara so they could yell ‘I GOT THE BIS TRINKET’, the one that was going to be replaced the next week.
This was changed early in S1 of TWW because Blizzard couldn’t be bothered to move a trinket from one loot table to another and instead offloaded the problem of people checks notes farming drops onto the playerbase instead with this fresh new punishment.
My very first run of a dungeon in the one that had all those pads…everyone of us went to some random pad and everyone went a different direction and we all got lost. Then tank got lost big time because he was trying to lead so went somewhere random and we couldn’t find him, he couldn’t find us. So we had to look for the tank because he kept trying to run towards us but was actually running further away. See you can gets lost or mess up a little when it is the very first run of the expac…but ft that run had happened right now today, tank and some other there would have been kicked. I was in a chill group though. People actually talked in it. Lots of people are not going to be running their mains in dungeons now. They will be on an alt or even an alt of an alt and so are going to try and rush through. No mistakes allowed anymore.