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Not sure how I feel about this one

Post by Mistermadigan » Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:10 am

Hunter made it to level 46, Vagrant Challenge and S&S on top of it - was rough going but I had friends to play with along the way.
Biological emergency comes up and I run up a hill and feign death.
Come back, and my character is dead from "Natural Causes".

Find out that when Feign Death expires, you just die. Spell doesn't just cancel and pop you back up like how I remember it. Partly I find this funny, partly I find it frustrating because it's a bug.

Eh, whatever. It was a good run. Cheers to Montezul the Tauren Hunter and Lilbuddy the Hawkstrider.

p.s. I'm glad I died after transferring most of my gold over to my level 40 Rogue so she could get her mount.

But seriously, it'd be nice if something was done about that Feign Death bug because that's not the way that ability is supposed to work.

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Post by Pepesmite » Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:08 am

Mistermadigan wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:10 am Hunter made it to level 46, Vagrant Challenge and S&S on top of it - was rough going but I had friends to play with along the way.
Biological emergency comes up and I run up a hill and feign death.
Come back, and my character is dead from "Natural Causes".

Find out that when Feign Death expires, you just die. Spell doesn't just cancel and pop you back up like how I remember it. Partly I find this funny, partly I find it frustrating because it's a bug.

Eh, whatever. It was a good run. Cheers to Montezul the Tauren Hunter and Lilbuddy the Hawkstrider.

p.s. I'm glad I died after transferring most of my gold over to my level 40 Rogue so she could get her mount.

But seriously, it'd be nice if something was done about that Feign Death bug because that's not the way that ability is supposed to work.
Greetings!

Please, make a bug report on our tracker: Bug tracker

It's easier for the team to document and investigate issues if they're reported on Github.

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Post by Gladeshadow » Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:25 am

Mistermadigan wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:10 am Hunter made it to level 46, Vagrant Challenge and S&S on top of it - was rough going but I had friends to play with along the way.
Biological emergency comes up and I run up a hill and feign death.
Come back, and my character is dead from "Natural Causes".

Find out that when Feign Death expires, you just die. Spell doesn't just cancel and pop you back up like how I remember it. Partly I find this funny, partly I find it frustrating because it's a bug.

Eh, whatever. It was a good run. Cheers to Montezul the Tauren Hunter and Lilbuddy the Hawkstrider.

p.s. I'm glad I died after transferring most of my gold over to my level 40 Rogue so she could get her mount.

But seriously, it'd be nice if something was done about that Feign Death bug because that's not the way that ability is supposed to work.
It's not a bug so much as a feature, probably added by blizzard to stop people abusing feign death to simply camp out an area or wait indefinitely for friends. It was very well known in the vanilla client; there are comments on it from 1.2-1.12 here: https://www.wowhead.com/classic/spell=5 ... h#comments. Search "die" and the 6 minute timer before death is mentioned by people playing the game in 2005.

Dying at the end of the timer isn't a bug since it's intentional. However, most deceiving is that the death at the end of the timer isn't mentioned in the tooltip.

On any character, a biological emergency would be a reason to log out. Feign death, shadowmeld, or stealth never guarantee a safe return when coming back to the computer.

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Post by Nokidding » Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:54 pm

Not a bug, always been like that.

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Post by Slashignore » Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:56 pm

Pepesmite wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:08 am
Mistermadigan wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:10 am Hunter made it to level 46, Vagrant Challenge and S&S on top of it - was rough going but I had friends to play with along the way.
Biological emergency comes up and I run up a hill and feign death.
Come back, and my character is dead from "Natural Causes".

Find out that when Feign Death expires, you just die. Spell doesn't just cancel and pop you back up like how I remember it. Partly I find this funny, partly I find it frustrating because it's a bug.

Eh, whatever. It was a good run. Cheers to Montezul the Tauren Hunter and Lilbuddy the Hawkstrider.

p.s. I'm glad I died after transferring most of my gold over to my level 40 Rogue so she could get her mount.

But seriously, it'd be nice if something was done about that Feign Death bug because that's not the way that ability is supposed to work.
Greetings!

Please, make a bug report on our tracker: Bug tracker

It's easier for the team to document and investigate issues if they're reported on Github.
not a bug.. it has always been like that.
Its blizzlike

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Post by Sylveria » Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:59 pm

Rule No. 1 in HC: Don't afk, Log out!

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Post by Ataika » Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:27 pm

Mastered fake death so hard that he died for real
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Post by Akos1896 » Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:44 pm

I feel you.
Maybe a warning saying something like '20 sec until real death' could prevent this for other HC hunters in the future.

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Post by Ingameacc12345 » Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:10 pm

Mistermadigan wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:10 am that Feign Death bug
It's not a bug.

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Post by Grizb37 » Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:00 pm

This was changed in TBC... In Vanilla , you died after the duration was up...

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Post by Jaxflorida » Fri May 10, 2024 4:00 pm

It sucks that you died that way at such a high level. A few lessons to take away.

1) never AFK in HC , wait the 20 seconds to log off
2) Know your class very well. Thats not a bug , but how the ability worked in classic. I vividly still remember dying way back in 2004-05 classic using FD and not coming back before the timer went off.

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Post by Sinslayer » Sun Sep 22, 2024 11:45 am

yeah... just play on the pvp server from now on lol

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Post by Ragetto » Sun Sep 22, 2024 12:16 pm

Mistermadigan wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:10 amthat's not the way that ability is supposed to work.
Yes it is (sadly you learnt it the hard way).

Sorry for your loss though

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Post by Turbosaxophonic » Wed Oct 02, 2024 2:02 am

Not a bug, it worked like that by design. You held your breath too long

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Post by Grizb37 » Wed Oct 02, 2024 6:29 am

You should have just logged out. It takes 20 seconds. You play HC why risk it lmao.

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Re: Not sure how I feel about this one

Post by Sylveria » Wed Oct 02, 2024 8:06 am

This topic is almost half a year old. Question has been answered. No need to necro. ^^

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