From latest patch notes. “Ritual of Summoning will not work inside instances or Netherstorm.”
Did you mean they won’t work inside TK instances or all instances? If it’s the latter…why?
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Wait, I thought that was changed in TBC so locks can summon people from OUTSIDE an instance directly to their current location INSIDE an instance.
Was that not so?
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The reasoning is it by passes the requirement for having flying to reach the dungeons.
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That was absolutely not so. Pause to shed a tear for all the people who were thinking that using a warlock as a beast of burden was going to supplant any need to explore the world…
…huh, tear ducts not cooperating. Oh well.
I suspect the patch notes are badly phrased, that the only actual change from Classic standard is “won’t work in Netherstorm,” to replicate BC behavior. You can still summon people from just inside the gate of Sunwell Plateau to Kil’jaeden’s room.
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It was a…2.3 change I think
I didn’t play back in the day, but I saw a video a few months ago that talked about notable changes in which they said summoning from outside to inside instances will be a thing.
Found this comment on Wowhead TBC:
“Yes it is true as of 2.4 you will be able to summon into instances as long as the target meets the level requirements of the instance.”
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This should be clarified, because the way it reads now, it’s no summoning at all inside instances. Even from just inside the entrance to another part of the instance. Which is not the case now, and I don’t think has ever been the case in WoW.
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Might be to force people to grind for flying mounts. If you can be summoned ithere, you don’t need a flying mount.
That is EXACTLY what it was for.
You had to be 70 (except for druids. They could get in at 68) to get up to the instances. Lock summoning was disabled outside the doors of the instances.
You can however summon using the stone, down at the camp, but good luck getting into the instance without flying.
And it’s not much of a grind to get your flying mount. Just don’t blow all your gold you earn and vendor on stupid stuff along the way and you should be fine. 
Not questioning the TK instances, blocking summons there makes total sense. But blocking summoning to all other instances seems like an unnecessary nuisance.
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Just tried to test it on the beta (On the instant 70 raid server) I was able to cast the spell both inside netherstorm and inside underbog. Either the spell not working is at the end of the ritual (I was alone so couldn’t check) or it’s not in yet / not on that server.
Do hope it means it won’t work inside any instance. Good and positive change.
It’s an end of BC change, so naturally it shouldn’t be allowed til Sunwell phase.
But all sorts of changes that were not present at TBC vanilla launch will be included with TBC Classic launch. By the time the 2.4.3 patch rolled around, which is what they are basing TBC classic on (minus raid boss health), we had …
Mage tables
healing items that have spell power
Hunter dead zone gone
Consumables: 1 battle, 1 guardian elixir OR 1 flask
Guild banks
There are a lot more I don’t know off the top of my head.
Most of these were 2.3 or 2.4.3 changes which players expect to be in TBC Classic at launch, and warlocks summoning from inside instances is one of them. Of course, this excludes Netherstorm because, as other players have mentioned, the idea is that you’re supposed to be able to fly there, not take a warlock shortcut.
Where was the person you were summoning? Also inside the instance or were they outside the instance?
The other person was outside. Somebody in shatt was nice enough to group with me while i was in underbog and i was able to target him and cast my spell (Had no clickers so was as far as i got).
While i was in netherstorm the other person was in hellfire i believe. I was again able to target them and cast my spell but had no clickers.
This was on the raid server (instant 70) which did have some different rules i believe so they might not have added that restriction on there. Or the spell may not fail until it’s fully cast (requiring clickers but target doesn’t get it).
Either way, wasn’t able to gather any info unfortunately.
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