Realm hopping changes

[Iowawolf]

Not sure where to put this so please move if it needs to be.

I read a few days ago that Blizzard changed the rules on realm hopping and for the Gnome in me can't remember what the changes were I think one was you had to be close to the leader just to phase to their realm. Got me wondering if on my huntress of little death I wanted to hop to find a rare does this mean I have to go to their garrison first to phase to the realm then I can go hunting or does it revert if I leave the garrison.

I liked before how we were able to realm hop but my guess is it was abused by players who would join then leave over and over also players joining groups not meant for hopping but if that was the case the leader needed to put no hoppers and turn off auto invite because only groups I ever hopped on were ones that were in garrisons or said hoppers welcome if it was a Kazzak group for example I never joined I hope this gets a chance to be fixed when they fix the phasing issue in SW.

[Kurasu]

Not sure where to put this so please move if it needs to be.

I read a few days ago that Blizzard changed the rules on realm hopping

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I think one was you had to be close to the leader just to phase to their realm.

Good. That means it will cut down on the people abusing realm-hopping to find rares and the like.

Yes, it made it easier to find rares. However, that *is* an abuse of the system, and it's not what it was made for. As such, I'm quite honestly happy they added that. It means that you can still join a cross-realm group and phase into their realm if you're summoned there, but you can no longer be all the way across the world and join a group just to hunt for rares, unless they're in the area where the rare is (I.E. if someone finds Loque, they can make a group to summon people there, but the people will have to actually go *to* the location).

[peanutbuttercup]

Hmm I don't seem to have an issue hopping regardless of where the leader is, however the glitch I've been seeing is after I drop group, it doesn't phase me back to my own realm sometimes and I have to join another group or log out in order to get back to my own realm.

[Vephriel]

Bleh, that's a shame if it turns out to be the case. I think realm hopping was a harmless convenience and very helpful for many reasons.

[Xota]

While I did use it to look for rares, that was probably because my realm's rares were sniped by hoppers. I also used it to rez if I were being camped, but there's other ways around that.
Unrestricted realm hopping was clearly not an intended use. Especially with the addons that exploited non-hop groups, it was something that needed to be changed.
I'm glad they found a way to change it that didn't remove hopping entirely. It will still be useful for camping and posting Oondasta/Galleon. Actually even better, since it apparently won't shift the whole raid's realm when some multiboxer or other group joins as a party.

[Iowawolf]

http://wow.curseforge.com/addons/server ... in-legion/

I got this from the actual forums it tells more about these changes which to me seem little bit like some lazy group leaders who didn't take time to manually invite whined to Blizzard to fix what they didn't want to bother doing. Only time I ever realm hopped was to find a rare hunter pet and I always looked for groups saying hoppers welcome or garrison stuff.

Sad that lazy group leaders and those with that useless add on had to ruin it for the rest of us and I never used that add on I rather manually select where I wanted to hop.

[Kalliope]

Interesting. I hadn't noticed anyone in the raid I joined was actually in zone with me. I just know I was able to successfully hop a few times since the patch. (And got my pet, thank goodness.)