Even if DW hits every zone an average of once per day (which I highly doubt) that gives a 5 minute window during the 1440 minutes of a day when porting can be dangerous.
Which equates to a mere 0.347% probability that you’ll port into fire each time you go there.
Like I said, extremely low odds.
Let me remind you how you started this discussion:
Making the utterly absurd insinuation taking the portal even just once guarantees death.
Now run along child - you bore me.
Nobody once said guarantees, ever. You make it sound like nobody has ever won a lottery in all of history. They’ve got 1 in X amount chance of winning and yet someone does? Well I happen to have won the crappy luck lottery in life and you’re not going to convince me something I’ve experienced first hand simply hasn’t. They put the landings in stupid places and there’s not much more to it than that. I got the achievement on my DK recently and still managed to mount/get out with low HP in time after taking the blasted lands portal. Stood in the fire… and LIVED! If you’re bored, don’t respond with stupid assumptions like that and expect to be unanswered.
I think your odds are way off. As somebody who could care less if he gets burned in the fire or not. I don’t mind rezzing real fast and going on with doing what I was doing.
I can say that I have, in fact been portal roasted at least 4 or 5 times going to Uldum on my druid to farm the hyper spawn herbs/ore.
I don’t think it’s an issue personally… but to say it’s less than a half a percent for it to happen… I dunno. I go there 2 or 3 times a week most weeks. So for me to have been portal cooked 4 or 5 times. That’s well over 1%.
Do your fishing bots keep getting cleansed by the best anti-bot mechanic introduced to WoW?
One time I teleported out of a dungeon i was running to go back to the beginning, to only spawn directly in deathwings fire. By the time I rezzed, I couldnt teleport back to the dungeon because everyone had left.
I happen to be typing this as I’m awaiting the fires to abate on my 4th character getting killed by DW. Too low level to res and fly away unfortunately.)
That’s purely anecdotal.
Your individual experience can be massively skewed from the general probability.
You could easily roll a single sided die 10 times and get 4 sixes. That wouldn’t make the probability of getting a six 40%.
“2-3 times most weeks” over about 10 weeks since going live. So that would be about 25 times, and let’s add 10 for while questing there. Multiplied by the 5 minutes window of attack, and there’s a cumulative window of opportunity to be “portal cooked” of 3 hours. I.e. equivalent to questing in the zone for 3 hours. (Hands up everyone whose spent multiples of that without seeing DW once in the zone. 
)
Like I said, the claim is extraordinary so I’m not going to take you at your word.
If you want me to believe you, you need to provide evidence.
But is it really that important?
Why would you even put your credibility on the line defending an obnoxious man-child who seems to think being able to “avoid death most of the time” means I’ve never taken certain portals? 
SIDE NOTE: I do think that portal spawn locations and flight path locations should have been made safe from fire. That way if you coincidentally arrive in a zone during an attack, you’re not impacted as much and can more easily go do something else. (Especially for low levels who can’t just res and fly away.)
Firstly, I’m not concerned about my credibility here, I’ve given an honest recount of what happened to me personally. Also, I don’t know you, and frankly, I don’t care about your opinion or whether you believe me.
Secondly, I’m not taking anyone’s side. As I mentioned in my post, I don’t see any issues with Deathwing and the current mechanics. I simply think your estimated 0.34% encounter rate is low. Based on my personal past experience of getting caught by Deathwing at the Uldum portal multiple times (4 or 5 times), I believe it’s higher.
How much higher? I can’t say for sure. Maybe I’m just very unlucky. Interestingly, I’ve only encountered Deathwing in one other zone across all my characters, (And i have a lot of them), but I mostly do dungeons and PvP rather than open world quests.
Also, as a side note, of the two of you. You honestly come off as WAY more obnoxious than him.
You remind me of one of those people who should have been taught a lesson early on as a kid and smacked in the mouth, but somehow… you never were. As a result, you continue to act obnoxiously as an adult and think it’s okay. I could be wrong, but that sure is the vibe you give…
Just to be clear: that 0.347% is not a general “encounter rate”. (You probably know this, but your word choice could be misleading.)
It refers very specifically to taking a portal into a zone, at the exact same time as the 5 minute window that an attack is underway. It uses the assumption of an average of DW attacking each zone 1/day. It is possible some zones are weighted to be attacked more frequently (e.g. if he attacks Uldum 3 times per day, then multiply the percentage by 3). But I haven’t seen any data to support/deny this.
This isn’t a question of feelz or personal experience.
It’s a question of maths.
If you can prove the maths to be wrong, provide concrete data, or reference blizzard feedback to demonstrate the probability is higher, I’ll accept that.
I won’t accept a stranger’s vague recollections of how many times he’s used the portal, and how many times he was killed the instant the loading screen finished.
I’ll reiterate: individual and personal experiences are statistically irrelevant.
That’s the case even if you have exact numbers for both conditions (currently you have neither), you’re still just one person.
Aren’t you just the most wonderful person.
No prizes for guessing how little I care about the opinions of thugs who advocate for violence.
I think you need to step back from this thread and ask who you’re trying to impress or convince because you’re taking this way too seriously to be this wrong at the same time. Gonna leave you alone with your math homework for now, best of luck to you going forward.
It aint hardcore until deathwing has a chance of killing ya.
But you get an achievement for it! Totally makes it worth it. /s
Wow has probably the most inconsequential death penalty out of any mmorpg, why are you letting it bother you so much?
You didn’t lose anything more than a couple minutes of time chill out.
Your gaslighting is givin me whiplash.
“It doesn’t happen, you’re lying”.
“Well, it happened to me, not saying to everybody else, but it did happen to ME”
“No it didn’t, you’re lying”
Givin off some Dolores Umbridge vibes there aren’t ya?
Okay you’re right, Cata is canceled.
Go home, Deathwing.
Because they want to be 100% right.
Unfortunately, I have clicked on a few threads they’ve posted in, and they have the “I know everything” attitude, which unfortunately for the rest of us we have to see.
It does make for good reading how bad they are at understanding the game though.
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