r/classicwow • u/zhellqq • 16d ago

Forever Beta Feedback Phasing like this is really immersion breaking

I understand why they do it, but it feels like there has to be a more elegant way of handling it, or perhaps a better "overlap" period where someone only moves off your layer when they are no longer visible.

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u/yayacocojambo 16d ago

Actually gamebreaking. One of the reasons WoW became great was because unlike other games at the time almost the entire game was 1 instance

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u/Scary-Photo9440 16d ago

I wonder if someone did a running from one end of the map to the other video in Forever how many times they'd phase in and out lol

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u/Tavron 15d ago

It'd be too dangerous to attempt. There would be a real chance that the person in question would lose their anchor point to the physical world and simply phase out of existence. 

This is how ethereals came to be.