Why is this still a thing?
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Haven’t had that one in a while.
You can enter up to ten individual instanced zones per hour. The limit is per account, and cannot be avoided by changing characters. You can still queue for random instances in the Dungeon Finder while under effect of this limit, but you will not be given a Deserter debuff if you cannot enter the dungeon.
Then again I don’t do repeat instances much.
Cuz it’s funny
Tehe
Also, probably to combat bot behavior. Reminds me of making D2 games too quickly and getting kicked thinking that I was botting Pindleskin or something.
I used to wait a minute before making a new game. I know it’s a pain, but it is just a reality I had to deal with
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Happened to me last week when i was spamming a raid for a mount, like normal, heroic, mythic, then swap characters… i guess i went a little too fast, because i slowed down and made a cup of tea between characters today and didn’t hit the limit lol
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It’s an issue…specially next week for some collectors like me…I’ll do 50+ alts for the love event.
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I was farming Tazavesh for that blue sword from the first boss. You can do it super quick and apparently hit the limit.
Sad that the legitimate players are punished because of bots.
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Does it reset on the hour, or based off the first instance?
it’s probably a server stability limitation
I’m honestly not sure.
The timer begins on the entrance of your first dungeon.
You’re on lock if you do 10 dungeons within that timer, which is one hour long.
After that hour, the lock goes away. A new timer begins when you enter another dungeon after that.
If you spam dungeon that takes you more than 6 minutes to do, you’ll never see the lockout because you’ll be finishing your tenth dungeon after the timer ends. However if it takes you less than 6 minutes, you’ll hit that lock out for whatever time is left on the timer.
Do 10 2 minute runs? Then you have 40 minutes remaining of the 60 minute time out.
And if you do exactly 6 minute runs, you win World of Warcraft.
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Works like Ironfur stacks.
how are you doing more than 10 instances in an hour?unless your just speedrunning…even then its kinda hard to do.
I was told that the instance lockout doesn’t exist for holiday bosses. But I’m 99.9% positive I’ve hit it before on holiday bosses.
I get that every time I queue up. I assumed it was by popular demand.
When I farm mog in old dungeons. I run /timer and make sure I wait 6 mins before entering a new instance.
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sigh still living in 2024
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It’s very easy actually, I hit the limit frequently especially while Love is in the Air or one of the other holiday instance bosses are going on.
Also, if you’re a collector and you are trying to get an item from a rare spawn boss in an instance, you may have to reset many times before you finally find an instance with that mob in it.
Oh dang, an excessive love for a sword ,gg.
Lockout does most certainly apply to holiday boss dungeon encounters.
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