I mean, I guess, but it’s usually so easy to get to safety before going afk. Like, get in a corner, mount up and fly, Stealthman 54 (until they nerfed it to be 49 and under) etc. And when there’s been reasons so pressing I had to leave the game instantly it’s usually been so important that coming back to a dead character in a video game is no biggie.
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How many times have you sat and watched an AFK player die from a mob?
Don’t play games while cooking? 
Unless everything is baking in an oven and I know I’m not touching it for like an hour, I’m not going to try to juggle WoW and cooking.
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It really takes only a couple of seconds to move to a safe spot and /afk. I have done it many times. If it’s not a true emergency, taking a couple of seconds to move out of the area should be ok. My hubby asks me to come do something… I just tell him to wait a second so I can move to a safe spot and he has no problem with it.
It’s easy to move away. If it’s a true emergency, hit escape, log out.
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If I see an afk player being attacked, I will kill the mob and move on. But I don’t stick around, so he’s on his own after the first assist. lol
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Don’t you dare add logic to this thread. We only speak in hyperbole here
I’m so dumb. I like stand there and protect them until they come back or log out. What is wrong with me?
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No. True emergency you just leave the computer and deal with the emergency. The 5 seconds it takes to click and logout could easily make the difference between an overheating pan and a grease fire.
Log out to the character selection page
I believe Webster’s has a link to this thread when you look up “first world problems”.
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Time to go outside and get some fresh air. WOW is not a real place, it never takes priority over anything in the actual world.
or afk in a space spot like most normal people
I think I’m about to start a character on OPs realm and keep a running count of the entertainment.
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I would settle for a portable nook and a dedicated in-game nanny.
This is it! Welcome to the future.
You certainly are, because when I do that, I log back in dead already.
That’s a lot of nonsense to juggle when they could just make us invulnerable while we’re marked Away and remain stationary.
Don’t tell people how to live their lives. Blizzard should implement features that are convenient for the community and enhance the gameplay experience. We are paying for a product. The onus to improve / “figure it out” is not on us, but on the people who want us to stick around. Maybe this feature isn’t popular enough to demand that they implement it. Fine. That doesn’t change the fact that you have a backwards attitude about the whole thing. Devs must change to please us or lose out. We do not have to change to enjoy the game. No player ever should unless the desire to improve starts and ends with them.
What’s the difference between a “true emergency” and a regular emergency? Does severity make the emergency truer? How do you determine severity? I would rather have a small kitchen fire than miss a delivery, but both things would be bad. For the purposes of this feature, an emergecy is an emergency, true or regular.
No. You log out to the character selection page.
More real to me than you are.
I will always prioritize WoW over you and every other stranger on this planet. Not that such a thing has any relevance whatsoever to the topic at hand.
I would rather die than be anything like “normal” people. Normality sickens me. Again though, this is a bait statement and has LITERALLY NOTHING TO DO with /afk invulnerability. Stop trying to derail this thread with idiotic nonsequiturs.
Tell us you are a neckbeard without telling us you are a neckbeard.
How is there almost 200 replies to this god awful idea.
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People die when they are killed.
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Like asking for a permanent Ice Block for everyone. Easily exploitable for any class that can drop combat and hit their /afk macro.
It’s literally nothing like that. Ice Block is usable in combat. This isn’t. Ice Block offers a strategic advantage because it leaves you targetable but makes you immune to damage temporarily while you restore health and your cooldowns tick away. This is basically a “quick logout” that doesn’t log you out, but briefly suspends you from play.
The two things are really not even comparible.
Like I said, for any class that can drop combat.