Especially on a pve server and especially in an instance.
We had a large influx of players from a pvp server on pagle and now half the groups flag pvp and half don’t. There’s no value in it taking 5 minutes to turn this off.
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in my experience with running with those players, they wouldnt unflag anyways, even if it was instant.
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Some might, the issue is when you end up in a mixed group and they decide to unflag
Yeah, it’s annoying.
I did find out that taking a flight path of any length skips the 5m wait though.
It’s weird that it has a 5m timer in places that you can’t actually PvP.
This feels like a pretty valid point.
It affects buffing in instances, right? I don’t know why this is even a thing.
Yeah it affects buffs and healing, so things like heroism and heals that jump between targets.
Just removing that pointless restriction in instances would be fine too.
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I feel like this seems like a pretty decent win.
Is there some sort of PVP exploit that people use by jumping into/out of instances, or some other reason why this currently works the way it does?
It doesn’t make sense that they should have to for buffs, imo. Perhaps you could make a case for open world PVP, but not for instance dungeons.
Not really it just seems like an archaic thing from way back when they thought world pvp might ever be a thing on pve servers.
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It is annoying. I often get onto a FP, even when there’s no need for it, just because it instantly drops the flag. This is useful when you dump a BG to go to a dungeon. You also get flagged flying over wintergrasp, even if you don’t land, which then takes 5 minutes to go away after leaving the zone unless you use a FP.
It really is a pointless thing that I don’t get why it happens.
Even on PvE servers or like 100% one sided servers people get flagged because maybe they did a PvP daily, flew over WG, etc and now either they need to wait 5 mins for it to drop or everyone else has to flag to regulate the issue.
It just obnoxious going into VOA flags people…
Alliance is still 99.7% of the server and you are afraid of being flagged? Oof.
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You seem to have completely missed the point.
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Lmao, you ever see people that only read an article’s headline and not any of the actual thing itself?
Right here.
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Teehee lol kek.
Yeah, I really don’t see the concern in being flagged for 5 minutes on a carebear server.
Unless you are the 1% faction.
Signed, a Grobbmobber.
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Missing the point again.
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Then consider trying to explain it better?
Does heroism skip flagged people or something?
Perspective from a PvP server: you just get flagged when you buff a green nameplate.
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The point is that you and OP both are playing retail WoW.
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Yes a lot of things skip people who are not similarly flagged including heroism.
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See I never played on PvE so I didn’t know this. 
On PvP you easily just get flagged, sometimes as bait.