"Today people think that a cow level is something like level 80 (or 70, or 60)."

What in the hell are you talking about? Nobody thinks that.

"And if they don't do anything punishment-wise to you, and your character is stuck, well... GM queues are ridiculously long right now, so you'll probably be stuck for a while."

Hearth out.

@elstor: You can't hearth out if you've fallen through the world. You're falling, and thus moving, though you're not going anywhere. I've had that happen to me before. Sucks. I logged off the toon and played another while I waited for a GM to move me.

With that said...I'm now planning on planting one of my characters inside the Coliseum and waiting for the patch. =)

@Elvendude
have someone summon you either with a warlock or a dungeon stone. Probably much faster than a GM queue.

@Dazaras the thing about falling through the world is that generally it bugs out the rest of the ground too, so you wind up hitting the bottom level of the world, and falling to your death, then your ghost falls and dies infinitely as well.

If you get stuck in a wall, you don't have to wait for a GM; there's an auto-unstick feature under the help that will try to move you.

Also, they stick a timer on you when you're dead, you don't fall forever anymore. When I jumped from the unfinished tunnel that comes out above Ironforge Gates, I fell and fell and fell, and eventually died in the air. It gave me a chance to release, but I sat and waited, watching while my body continued moving southeast. Eventually the release timer went off and my ghost wound up at the graveyard near the Gates. My corpse? Right in front of them.

I'd expect blizz to run a script during the patch rollout that would port all players in the area back to whereever their hearthstone is set to. At least that's what I would do
and that's what Blizz does all the time on laggy servers right now, especially when you're in Ulduar, fighting Leviathan in hard mode and you're only 100k HP away from your firstkill *grrrr*