Disconnect in raid = teleport to hearthstone location
by David Nelson 
Sep 26th 2006 at 11:23PM
There are reports on the WoW.com forums that there is a rather annoying bug that has popped up in the wake of the 1.12.1 patch going live this afternoon. When you disconnect from a server while in a raid, you are not returned to the raid instance upon reestablishing connection. Instead, you are returned to your hearthstone location. Some people have complained about being sent back to Silithus when they got disconnected during their BWL raid. Ouch. While not the end of the world, I could see this seriously slowing down raids. No blue response yet, but there are numerous threads, like this one, that seem to confirm the problem.
My guild doesn't raid on patch Tuesdays for this very reason, so I didn't get the pleasure of a free hearth back to The Undercity. Were any of you folks able to take advantage of this undocumented "feature" this evening?
Filed under: Bugs
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Abhinav Sep 26th 2006 11:32PM
No. I dont think anyone realy got any benifit from it... just alot of suffering and problems
Thingy Sep 26th 2006 11:49PM
Wow, thanks for that. At work right now, but put up a warning for the rest of my guild so they will know what to expect tonight in BWL. >:(
Fynar Sep 26th 2006 11:59PM
Our MT was disconnected at 12% on Hakkar. Luckily we got Hakkar all the way down, but our MT missed out on loot, loot master was all screwed up (it was MT) and luckily we have honest raid members.
The MT logs back on and is in the Wetlands...ugh.
Stropp Sep 27th 2006 1:06AM
I'm not sure that this bug has come in on the 1.12.1 patch. My guild were raiding AQ on Monday night Aussie time, which is Sunday night or early Monday US time, and the server started having hiccups. The whole raid was disconnected and a lot of them ended up at their hearth locations.
I suspect the best thing to do until this is figured out it to hearth close to the raid prior to going in.
Hory Sep 27th 2006 7:57AM
We require all members of our guild (currently completing MC, starting BWL) to set their hearthstones to Kargath for quick returns... as Stropp said, it has happened on occasion before this patch.
crsh Sep 27th 2006 9:51AM
Wow.. we were in AQ40 last night, and some people were sent back to IF (their hearthstone) after dying, talk about -very- annoying for both the raider and the whole group as we'd have to get out and summon in order to not wait 20+ minutes for that person to make his way back to the instance.