In World of Warcraft, sometimes players are kicked for absurd reasons. Even when they are in need of help.
It’s accepted that sometimes you have players in World of Warcraft who don’t really know what they are doing or how a boss fight works. This happens in every game and is part of it. However, in WoW, there is often a peculiar impatience that leads some to want to kick someone from their group. Even when that person is not at fault and one should reflect on their own actions.
What happened? After a player demonstrated a few days ago that he was kicked from a dungeon for being the only one to play the mechanics correctly, many others are now sharing their stories and revealing the reasons why they were removed from their groups.
The player Ciric3 shares his story from the Timewalking dungeon, King’s Rest. There, he was stunned – and because no one knew the mechanics, he was subsequently kicked for inactivity.
When I was leveling in Timewalking dungeons, I entered King’s Rest. We defeated the first boss, and during the second boss (Mchimba), I was hit by “Entomb”. While I was underground, I used the “Assist” ping so my teammates could see me better and help me. Right after that, a loading screen came up, and I didn’t know what was going on.
Then I saw the Dungeon Deserter debuff and realized what had happened. I whispered the hunter in the group and asked why I was kicked. The group probably thought I was afk, even though they hadn’t played the mechanics that keep me stunned permanently.This community gets stranger every day.
What is special about this boss? Mchimba in the dungeon “King’s Rest” has the ability “Entomb”. This forces a character in the group into a sarcophagus, from which they cannot free themselves. The only thing the captured character can do is squirm so that the sarcophagus wobbles and the rest of the group knows which sarcophagus the character is in – to rescue them.
However, if one does not know this mechanic, a character can be trapped for several minutes, even after the fight has ended.
Why are these mechanics so unknown? King’s Rest is a special case. The dungeon belongs to “Battle for Azeroth”, but even back then it was not part of the leveling experience. King’s Rest was an end-game dungeon that one only played at maximum level. Most of the time, the dungeon was played on Mythic and “Mythic+”. Therefore, many who did not play such content back then have little to no memories of this instance.
These incidents are particularly frustrating because the kicked individuals then have a deserter debuff, preventing them from accessing further dungeons for half an hour. They feel doubly punished for the ignorance of their fellow players.
Despite this negative experience, many players are sure – There is only one WoW.
