First time I’ve seen it. I’m farming a mog in classic scholo on retail and got locked out for running too many times so I switched characters and it’s locked out for my other character too? When did that become a thing and can it be changed because that’s a bit excessive. It’s already time consuming when it’s a low drop now I have to wait longer bc it wants to lock out all characters…
Yes, the instance cap is for your account not just character.
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Well, I think this tells us ‘why’ they made the change.
Anything to drag out time it takes to get what you want to keep you going after it.
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Far as I know, it’s always been an account-wide lockout.
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It’s per realm. One reason I have alts across realms.
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That’s what I thought, that it was realm based.
but yall kept chanting on here “mAkE eVeRyThInG aCcOuNt-wIdE bLiZz!” lol
This.
It isn’t. It’s per account.
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Was it ever realm based? I swear at one point it was, wasn’t it?
“You can enter up to ten individual instanced zones per hour.”
ten per hour sounds like enough to literally be ready to reset on the same character by the time youve done the 10th run.
Doesnt really seem like a big issue at all, honestly.
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Just think if they had kept it to 5 instances per hour. It was like that in Vanilla and TBC.
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I don’t know, for as long as I can recall it’s been account based.
Back in the day bots would run dungeons over and over and over for gold farming. That is why there has to be a cap on how many can be run but it’s higher than it was before.
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Article has been wrong for years. It’s per realm. Try it yourself.
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Without a doubt. After a decade of utilizing it.
You can in fact run your 10 instances per realm.
Within that same hour you can log on to any other realm and run another 10 instances.
Utilizing any two realms to indefintely run instances.
It boils down to how fast you can run the instance.
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I thought I was going crazy, cause I sat here like… I KNOW it’s realm based, I swear it is LOL
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Yup, it’s how we could keep queueing for holiday bosses despite the 10 instance limit.
Hit cap within 30 minutes on your current realm? Fire up an alt on another and queue.
Always been a thing, happens a lot during love rocket attempts
I think if u switch servers and use a different char it by passes it, at least it did during that event
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I remember working on some weird farming project some years back, and couldn’t understand why some of my characters were getting locked out while others weren’t. I inquired and was told it was account-wide. I realized that isn’t how it was actually working and decided to drop it.
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Type /timer and don’t re-enter the dungeon until it hits 6 mins.