Doing the Time Rift, had the magnet effect used to push around the big robot which slows you while you use it. Mounted when the Rift opened up and went through but the ‘Magnetic Resistance’ buff is stuck on my character and I could not move fast enough to participate in the boss fight…hearthed to Valdrakken and the buff is STILL on me, so my character is bricked until its gone.
I am having the same issue. Have you found any solution?
Yep, same issue here, completely stuck.
Kill your character and the debuff will drop off
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Ok, I just got stuck with the same “Magnetic Resistance” debuff from the rift event.
Killing my toon was the only thing that cleared it, but figuring out how to do that was the difficult part.
If you’re still out in Dragonlands, then you can still fly with a dragonriding mount. Then I’m assuming you can fly high up and then fall to your doom.
My problem was that I had hearthed out and could no longer dragonride. The good thing is that you can actually move, but you’re verrrrry sloooww. Walking is unbearable, but you can make tolerable progress with a non-DF flying mount.
So what I did was use my Dalaran hearth, mount up and fly to the nearby landing pad. Then I flew upwards and off the edge of Dalaran until I was flying over the edge where there’s a lower lip. Dismounted above that and was able to die. Make sure to fall onto that lower edge and not off Dalaran since it’s all water below.
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stupid bug still in the game.
gg blizz
I am likewise afflicted, Blizz should know better than to make an optional buff undismissable.
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I just encountered the bug on this character. Thank you for the solution, Draenec!
Hopefully Blizzard will flag the aura so players can at least remove it themselves without having to kill their character.
I had this issue when I was holding the magnet and used a movement displacement ability (Heroic Leap) to attempt to get away from the bot. Using an ability causes you to lose the magnet, but the movement seems to also re-apply the buff in the same instant which is what caused it to become stuck for me.
Killing the character (by flying high enough with a dragonriding mount) was still the only solution.
Dieing did it, thanks
Hard to believe this still hasn’t been fixed, but it hasn’t.
The only solution was the finding a way to die, as suggested by others. I used my Legion Dalaran hearth, flew up as I could (took 5-10m) then fell to my death.
Experienced issue today on my Pally… did slow walk out of The Roasted Ram (took 10 minutes), used Dragonriding mount straight up, dismount, die…
Blizz owes me 100g for repair!
July 19 Hotfixes
- The Field Despair Magnet effect is now removed when leaving a Time Rift event.
Yeah, no. It didn’t matter where I was, I still had to die by suicide in order to be rid of the effect. So this “hotfix” does nothing.
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I just encountered this problem, killing my character was the only thing that removed the buff. It would be better if it was removed when the phase ended. Or when the rift ended. Or when you hearth. Or when you log out. Or if it was on a timer. Or if the player could right-click it off. There are a lot of ways it could be better than it is now.
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Same issue on 2 of my characters… really annoying.
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I had the same problem, was stuck in the Roasted Ram. Turns out you can move, it’s just very, very slow. I pointed my character towards the door, pressed the NumLock key, and watched YouTube videos on my other monitor until my character made it out the door (took about 10 minutes). I was then able to mount my dragon, fly up into the air, and dismount. Dying cleared the “buff” (which seems like more of a debuff).
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Still a problem. I helped with the group project on my evoker alt right before the Time Rift portal opened and the cursed “buff” didn’t clear when the event did. I managed to enter the rift since the Magnetic Resistance buff doesn’t affect dragonriding, but once inside I couldn’t participate in the encounter, missed out on the chance of any rewards for the alt, and to top it off I didn’t get quest credit. I had to hearth out and excruciatingly slowly move to a spot where she could go suicide herself since it’s the only means of removing Magnetic Resistance.
You didn’t fix the problem, contrary to the hotfix note from July 19th, so when is this going to actually be corrected? And until it is, I strongly recommend against participating in that group event even if it means missing out on any potential reputation. It’s not worth it.
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Thanks for the tip - character death solved it. Blizz now needs to pay for my repairs.
Same issue. And I picked up the buff when we were told to kill anything. I did not get rift rewards either. Really annoyed. Going to kill my toon now but it takes forever to get out of the roasted ram at this rate.
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Still broken in 10.2.7 as of 5/23. Stupid to have this around this long. Just remove that part of the event if you can’t fix it, Blizz