Hearthstone and instance lock outs

[juggnard]

I was wondering if NB is going to have a 5 minute hearth stone cool down ( auto unstuck) like on feenix. Don't really care either way, just curious.

My other question is will instances have the 5 per hour lock out like on retail? or will it be unlimited like on feenix? I hope there's a too many instances lock out because the power leveling/gold farming was absurd on ED with out it.

[ironsides]

I was wondering if NB is going to have a 5 minute hearth stone cool down ( auto unstuck) like on feenix. Don't really care either way, just curious.

My other question is will instances have the 5 per hour lock out like on retail? or will it be unlimited like on feenix? I hope there's a too many instances lock out because the power leveling/gold farming was absurd on ED with out it.

Probably an actual retail like hearthstone cooldown, might be able to abuse it in instances, and the 5/hr will be in effect.

[mike1097]

I really think the devs will disable the auto unstuck feature. It breaks the feeling of how useful the hearthstone can be and that you have to take a walk sometimes.
Regarding the 5Dungeons/hr, I don't know when it was implemented, but it won't be very interesting. Only if you're farming low dungeons maybe.

[DrunkenEnvy]

I really think the devs will disable the auto unstuck feature. It breaks the feeling of how useful the hearthstone can be and that you have to take a walk sometimes.
Regarding the 5Dungeons/hr, I don't know when it was implemented, but it won't be very interesting. Only if you're farming low dungeons maybe.

In 1.12, the auto unstuck feature should only hearth you if you own a hearthstone (bank/inventory), and it's on cooldown; otherwise, it should do nothing (usually), or teleport you a few steps in a direction that's determined with mechanics of which I have no understanding. If you don't own a hearthstone, it shouldn't hearth you at all.

To my understanding, the unstuck abuse occurred between 2.0.1, and 2.0.12 (December 2006>April 2007)

[mrmr]

The 5 instance/hours limit was introduced at 1.9 or later.

While would be blizzlike not having this limit at start, I would agree that without it there would be a somewhat game-breaking instance-farm.

[azamous]

I hope they fix the unstuck and make it retail-like, getting a free hearthstone every 5-15 minutes sorta ruins the 'grind and travel' aspect