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Defiant wrote: Fri Sep 04, 2026 9:38 pm I mean to be fair those disconnects are due to the DDoS attacks, and generally speaking during those DDoS attacks you can't really do much of any group content.

Like sure a Dungeon group could keep relogging and trying to make tiny amounts of progress, but the reality is that people often just log off during the disconnects and won't come back for an hour or two, so that whole dungeon group that they had to put together manually ( unlike the BG which is an auto queue ) and run to the Dungeon manually ( unlike the BG that teleports you there ) falls apart just the same as the BG.

We're all suffering equally through this.

That said for the deserter debuff thing, people have brought it up even before the DDoS attacks, and it's tough. You can't just outright remove it or BGs will be severely negatively impacted as people just queue up and the second the BG doesn't go in their favor they leave and requeue. ( or force a disconnect, which isn't hard. ) The only way it would work is if the devs could code something that allows the player to rejoin the specific BG that they got disconnected from and I'm not sure if that's technically feasible with this ancient client. If they could do that, I'd support it-- however I wouldn't support completely removing deserter debuff especially since these DDoS attacks won't last forever.

Another aspect to consider with the rejoining thing-- so typically when someone leaves a BG, the queue system tries to fill that spot to create a balance again. Like if it's a 10vs10 and one person DCs, it's not a 10vs9 and the queue system tries to fill that spot asap to make it balanced again. The reality for many leveling brackets is that you don't get full BGs to begin with, so when one person DCs that can be a massive imbalance. So then it's like, delaying the queue system from kicking in and finding a replacement would be a negative impact if the person disconnected doesn't return.

I'm not trying to lecture you or write walls of text but there's a lot of variables involved in these decisions. I do agree that there should be like a 30-45 second window for you to be able to reconnect and still be in the same BG. If they can manage to code that in I'd fully support it.