How very white knight of you. For those of us that live in the real world, an actual human being would never be paid to take a look at this, or anything remotely like it. The decision to punish behavior is 100% automated, and based solely on the number of reports. Blizz hasn’t spent a penny trying to make their game a friendlier place to visit for at least a decade, and never will in the future.
It makes no difference if a player should be punished for any behavior - reports are abuse-able, and if enough players report, then they’ll get punished.
Because someone replied to me initial question that it’s a non issue when you can reset the boss and I added that you can’t do that outside of a raid, like a dungeon.
The Dalaran crater is located in Hillsbrad Foothills. So it was the “proper portal”.
This argument, together with the ‘just teleport back to the dungeon’ doesn’t work when you are dead from the fall as far as I know as you can’t heartstone or teleport to the instance/raid. You first have to run back to your corpse before you can teleport back into the raid but chances are slim people will wait for you and rather kick you for being AFK (not in the raid instance).
You just added the dungeon part because you got blowback on your initial argument. If it really was that important, then add it to the opening post. You know some people will ignore all these replies and only respond to your first post.
As to the other half, you made the choice to click. You should also have more than enough time to get back to your corpse. If people are waiting to get a warlock closet up, and multiple people died to Dalaran crater portal…
If the destination wasn’t meant to be there, Blizzard would or should have removed this option from mage portals. Since it’s been in the game for so long with no changes, it’s a feature. Will you always be kicked? No. If depends on the group. It’s not right if you do get kicked, I’ll grant you that.
At the eggs of the day it’s usually harmless as it’s normally done at the very end. People get a haha. If anything, just remove the repair gold you need to spend from fall damage. Or just within the crater. Also, what class were you playing, exactly? About the only class i can think of without access to slow fall, glide, reduced fall damage, or bird form is…warlock. warrior can leap. Paladins have bubble…
No they shouldn’t. And it’s not such a big deal. I’m actually amazed how angry some people are while playing this game, to the point where they would like to see anyone who has dared to do anything that they might consider offensive, banned, probably forever.
Because I thought it was an interesting thing to discuss. To what extent other players have a say in when you’re allowed to use your own spells and/or abilities. But it’s quite a bit of a topic by itself.
I don’t know why you keep assuming I was a victim by a maliciously placed portal? The engagement that commenced in the raid chat after people unsuspectingly clicked the mage’s portal and died from falling motivated me to open a discussion here.
It might be annoying at first, but to be honest, there shouldn’t be a punishment for such harmless shenanigans. It’s a joke, get over it.
I still remember back in WotLK somebody used the Direbrew’s Remote in ICC and somebody did click on the drill. Everybody laughed, we did port him back and started the boss fight. So I get it.
This is not dumb.
They are new/ returning players.
Expecting everyone to know details about an MMO is dumb.
The majority of the player base does not have a master’s degree in all things WoW. Feeling like the king of the hill because you know something obscure and niche about a specific video game and then looking down on others is… cringe.
You could use that energy to help Blizzard retain new/returning players instead of driving them away.
With all the crying here, I think TWW is just the right one for starting to place the drill again in dungeons and raids. It might work again with quite some people and it fits into the expansion theme. ^^
Atleast you got a button that teleports you back to the dungeon. I was a much bigger rascal back in the day. There were a few times when running DS I put a portal to Theramore down where Kalec puts his portal to the Eye of Eternity. Last time I did it the entire raid ended up in Theramore.
Just don’t be so quick-to-click. Mages have been doing the portal prank since they could cast a portal someplace. Besides, you can mouse over things and it tells you what it is and where it goes.
Banning for bad TW/BL is equivalent to asking if you should ban tanks for not using defensives say optimal times or healers for not using a life saving cd fast enough. . . You don’t get to ban people for lack of skill, you simply don’t play with them again. That’s what blocking is for. If we punished every bad player in the game, wow would be shut down in a week
I’ve trolled plenty with portals since TBC. Never got in trouble for it.
If I light a candle and you touch the fire, whose fault is it? I didn’t make you touch it, and I certainly didn’t force you to click on the portal either. You are responsible for your own actions. You willingly chose to click on the portal without checking first.
Yes! I still remember being in Korack’s Revenge battleground waiting for the gate to lift for all of us, and some crap mage thought they were funny and I was clicking on the lock rocks and BAM my cursor hovered too close to the mage portal, and I was out. Then insult to injury was the 30-min timer preventing me from re-entry. UGH!
Delete this thread giving attention to victims is whats wrong with are world you got baited and trapped honestly your main is problem the mage that made the port idk why anyone gave this thread this much attention that it showed up on my Google news app and the people that are saying the mage should be reported please stop doing group content you clearly need to be a solo player the lock could have easly setup another SS and you would have 100% seeing through the locks portal also 20 years the game has been out and your still falling for the one and only trick a mage has got im 100% sure your the mage that did you and only made this for validation though