Disconnecting from Skyriding / Dragonriding Launching and Landing

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Problem: My wife is disconnecting frequently when skyriding / dragonriding since TWW Pre-Patch until now (August 27, 2024). Specifically, the disconnects tend to occur when she is landing (but sometimes launching) to pick up an herb (or simply landing to fight the various encounters during the Pre-Patch). The frequency seems to be roughly 10% - 20% of the time, so this is starting to get really irritating for her.

During the Pre-Patch, we assumed things were a little buggy, so she switched to the traditional style of flying - and that seemed to fix it for the time being. However, this style of flying is not available to players until the TWW Pathfinder achievement has been completed.

Trouble-shooting: So far, we have looked at other possible causes, since I am also skyriding / dragonriding but experiencing no disconnects. We turned her addons off, and nothing changed as far as the frequency of disconnects. Both of our computers are wired into the internet (no wifi or wireless connection). We have thought about trying different things such as graphic settings or whatever.

Initially, we thought it just may be her computer, but after further reading it seems this is an issue a lot of people are dealing with. Could there be any potential Settings changes we could look at that would be worth exploring?

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: So, I am just updating on one of her recent disconnect. This disconnect happened when she launched from the ground while Skyriding / Dragonriding. She has just been fishing, so she was not in combat or anything weird like that.

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My partner is having the same issue.

Every 5-6 times he mounts and jumps to activate skyward ascent, it disconnects him. He’s super frustrated with this. Has had to revert to normal steady flight to stop this happening.

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Keeps happening to me too, sometimes several disconnects in a row.

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Having this exact same issue for a while now, dragonriding mount up > attempt to fly > ~10% chance of disconnect.

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My buddy guildmate was having that issue… exclusively while using Mimiron’s Head

Strange enough, we reported it, but try different mounts see if theres a trend.

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This keeps happening to me as well, to the point trying to quest is damn near impossible. I havent noticed a pattern of any sort but i thought the same thing that something is wrong with my pc… i honestly think its just the game atp

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This was a constant issue during the Dragonflight launch that seemingly went away for over a year and has been back big time.

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It’s still disconnecting me regardless of mount choice. I use the sunwarmed feline and sky golem primarily.

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add me to this. Skyriding take off always a chance to DC

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Yep getting it too so gone back to normal flying.

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Same here its getting annoying almost every time i sky ascend disconnect

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Happens to me as well, on any character, doesnt seem to me mount specific

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It’s good to know my wife and I are not alone!

For what it helps, I have disconnected from WoW 3 times today while launching from the ground. It has been on the Highland Drake as well as Invincible. So, I don’t think the mount attributes much here.

Hopefully that helps for researching and debugging purposes.

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Also experiencing this issue :frowning:

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this is also happening to me too. I’ve disconnected about 6 times while questing in the past 30 minutes.

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It happens to me as well on multiple characters. Then the character that got disconnected cant log back in for a while sometimes 15-20 minutes. This is beyond frustrating!

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I am also disconnecting when Skyriding and gathering.

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So, it’s been about 10 days since the initial post, and the wife hasn’t had much chance to play since last posting.

However, we sat down this afternoon to play a bit. For the sake of research / problem-solving, I suggested that she try Druid-flight forms for her Dragonriding / Skyriding. She has been picking herbs for about an hour or so, and she has disconnected by launching and landing about 4 times in that hour.

As I have glanced over to her computer when I hear her frustration, I can see the last second of the frozen frame before she disconnects. There doesn’t seem to be anything consistent in terrain. For example, the times that I have disconnected, I have run into a tree or shrub. However, for her, it seems she will disconnect in an open field or in a fairly congested area.

It may be a camera-angle thing or maybe an angle-of-collision thing, but either way, it seems to be pretty annoying. Again, this is a launching and landing issue. At this point, I would just suggest removing the requirement for normal flying via Pathfinder until this problem can be resolved.

EDIT: On a similar note, I have noticed while Skyriding / Dragonriding that I get some sort of an auto-leveling bug that happens from time to time… To describe the bug, itself, it would be similar to an unwanted auto-correct for flying. For example, if I try to descend at a very slight angle, my mount forcibly levels out. I then have to over-correct and increase my angle of descend until it breaks out of the leveled flying. Then if I try to return to a slight angle of descent, the auto-leveling bug engages again. Obviously, this is a problem, because you do not gain any Vigor while level or ascending flying.

The reason I bring this up is due to the nature of how it occurs. It seems to be assigned to my character once I mount up - randomly. For example, I can fly / gather for an hour and never experience this bug as long as I never dismount and re-mount. However, for characters that cannot gather while on a mount, they dismount and re-mount quite often, resulting in this bug occurring on them.

Now, so far, this tends to happen 10% - 20% of the time depending on my luck, I guess. However, I have learned that if I start to experience this “auto-leveling” bug, I simply need to dismount and re-mount again. Sometimes, I might get it 2 times in a row, but the bug seems to be mostly negated once I re-mount.

All that being said, and the reason I go into detail, is for problem-solving strategies for the disconnecting while launch and/or landing while Skyriding / Dragonriding. For example, similar to how a the “auto-leveling” bug is randomly assigning itself to a character once mounted, the same type of error could be occurring when a player mounts / dismounts.

I have no idea, but I figured I would try to help out / brain-storm a bit.

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I also play a druid and also experience this issue, mostly with launching moreso than landing. I just disconnected twice in two minutes doing exactly that. Very frustrating.

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Just adding an update.

Currently, the wife has just completely switched to non-skyriding / non-dragonriding, since we completed the achievement that unlocks it. I still use it, I and have disconnected a few times over the past week.

For me, while farming herbs and ores, I have found myself launching from the water a few times. I most often disconnect here. Twice, I have disconnected while launching in combat and logged back in to a corpse. Once, I disconnected while launching and crashing through one of the trees. Obviously, water-collision disconnects and combat-disconnects have always been a thing, but I am just noting that for the sake of root-cause analysis for Blizzard.

Anyway, I had a new one today. I disconnected while engaging with a pet battle. The World Quest is Major Malfunction, and I disconnected while switching in the Pet Battle Mode of the game. There are a few ledges here, and either me, the enemy, or one of the pets stepped down from one of the ledges, and I was disconnected from the game. No idea why - I wouldn’t even guess. Just thought I would note it for more root-cause analysis.

Hope that helps.