Hearthstone query

[mmorpg man]

a few weeks ago I changed my home location from Stormwind to Shattrath. before I changed it, whenever I left a group in an instance and it teleported me back to home, I didn't use the HS. but now it resets the HS cooldown whenever I get teleported from an instance. Is this a patch update, a bug or just how it works with shattrath.

thanks in advance

[Pharoahe]

If you leave a party while in an instance group, you are hearthed back after 60 seconds. I'm not sure how long this mechanic has been in the game. I use it regularly in Isle of QD & Stormwind to get back to my Inn (in Stockade or MgT, just invite a friend to a party, enter instance & leave party). Pretty useful when you have 45 mins left on the cooldown.
Note: It resets your cooldown to 60 minutes again.

edit: sorry re-read your post. I'm not sure about other Inns, but Shat does indeed reset the cooldown.

[Kodonn]

a few weeks ago I changed my home location from Stormwind to Shattrath. before I changed it, whenever I left a group in an instance and it teleported me back to home, I didn't use the HS. but now it resets the HS cooldown whenever I get teleported from an instance. Is this a patch update, a bug or just how it works with shattrath.

thanks in advance

That is how it has always worked, no matter where your hearth was set. If your HS was not on cool-down, using the instance-kick method would still reset it. At one time (it still may) using the unstuck used to reset it as well.

You just may not have noticed this in the past if your HS was already on cool-down when you left instance groups and got ported.

[mmorpg man]

but it still reset the cooldown even if it was still on the cooldown. so it was on 45mins remaining but when i teleported it went to 59mins remaining.

[Kodonn]

but it still reset the cooldown even if it was still on the cooldown. so it was on 45mins remaining but when i teleported it went to 59mins remaining.

(That sounds like you still have a question, so I'll answer on that premise)
That is exactly what it should do.

The instance group-leave-port and the unstuck command will always reset your HS to its 60 min cooldown.
If your HS is already ON cooldown, thankfully those 2 ports will still work (without waiting for the 60 min timer to be up), but they will still push your HS out to a 60 minute cooldown.

It's to prevent people from "cheating" the system (so to speak) by using that technique Pharoahe described, and trying to save their HS for later.

[mmorpg man]

ok thanks guys. thought it didn't do that when my HS was set to stormwind. oh well

[Marlous]

Concerning that "instance-kick", I also have a question.. is it true that it doesn't work when the last boss has been downed? Because I've never gotten this to work, but then I realised that the only times I've tried it so far was when we were done.

[mmorpg man]

Concerning that "instance-kick", I also have a question.. is it true that it doesn't work when the last boss has been downed? Because I've never gotten this to work, but then I realised that the only times I've tried it so far was when we were done.

it should do it in any place during an instance if you leave a group

[Janfader]

it should do it in any place during an instance if you leave a group

True story. Make sure you don't re-group within the 2 min warning.

[Wintrow]

It doesn't in a raid instance though. I was once invited to a Kara-run as tank. Offtanked Maiden (MT got splattered so I jumped in and "saved the day") then got kicked for some unexplained reason (even the other groupmembers didn't get it). I was still standing there dumbfounded and didn't get a hearth-out like in a normal instance. Then the MT goes and pulls several elites wiping us all (including me). I was unable to enter the instance after dieing.

Those two (the leader and the tank) sure made my hate-list.

[clevins]

Nor does it work in heroics (which are raid instances to the server). The trick only works in normal.

[Marlous]

The trick only works in normal.

That would explain, even though it doesn't make sense. I only ran a handful of normal runs before I went to heroics, so I just figured that the trick never worked for me at all. Meh.

[LadySDevil]

The change where it uses your hearthstone and/or resets to 60 minutes came in like patch 2.3, it wasn't always like that. As for the instance kick, it doesn't work for any instance you get saved to. :)

[Cerberus]

An old trick really, but having your HS in Shat and using Stormwind or Orgrimmar for AH allows you to port back to Shat whenever you want to by using Ragefire Chasm/Stockades. Invite someone, promote them to leader, enter the instance and leave the group. Only takes a second or two for the person you invite.