Not getting forced to logout due to inactivity

[darkchaos89]

So it appears something is bugged with the auto logout due to inactivity.

I may just be stupid as hell, but stick with me for a moment.

I was farming the instaspawn pirates in STV, got bored and left WoW open. I came back to a single pirate beating on me and my chat logged filled with the message "You have been inactive for some time and will be logged out of the game. If you wish to remain logged in, hit the cancel button.". I clearly wasn't logged out.

As far as I knew, even if you were in combat you'd be logged out before, but apparently this is bugged.

I'm assuming you could beat on a dummy in Orgrimmar and not get logged out. Other than spamming chat easier without getting logged out, I can only thing of a few real benefits to this, but maybe someone else will think of something.

tl;dr - being in combat prevents you from being logged out due to inactivity (this isn't intended as far as I know, if it is, ops)

[Dante]

Sure.. but i don't understand why you dont want to log out...
Maybe if you play on a big realm like Outland EU because of the ques not wanna log out..?
Anyways, + rep for you!

[Blueice22]

It isn't intended but has been around for quite some time. Back in the days of Kara we had pugged a priest and he was drunk and passed out at the keyboard while glitching the boss through the door (can't remember his name) and when his head hit the keyboard he ran off of the ledge we were on to one farther down. He stayed in combat and was logged in all night until he woke up the next morning.

[Phantons]

It's been around since Classic Beta. You can't logout in combat, and a mob being on you puts you in combat. You used to be able to attack a training dummy and it'd never log you out, but they made it so your person sits down and it turns auto attack off. A mob however can't reset because you've been AFK to long, so a mob that can never kill you will keep you logged in forever so long as it's alive the whole time.

[moor2]

i can say i didn´t even got AFK flag while i was just sitting in front of the AH and going to lunch, then watch TV (over 2 hours), came back and no afk, no log out.

[darkchaos89]

Been around this classic BETA?

I have been forced logged out while in combat before, but ah well. News to those who don't know, repost to those who do.

Allowing more to see it creates the possibility of more uses, although they are still limited with this.

[Anonie]

you take passive durability loss while you're in combat. so don't be surprised if you're afk'ed for HOURS that your durability dropped down to 0.

I used this to level my unarmed weapon skills back in wotlk, there was a weapon that does 0 damage b/c it would never hit or something and found a critter that fought back in the middle of no where.

[Konkeestadoor]

What if two players dueled each other, unequipped their weapons and just auto attacked each other, would that work?

[Iaccidentallytwink]

It isn't intended but has been around for quite some time. Back in the days of Kara we had pugged a priest and he was drunk and passed out at the keyboard while glitching the boss through the door (can't remember his name) and when his head hit the keyboard he ran off of the ledge we were on to one farther down. He stayed in combat and was logged in all night until he woke up the next morning.

Amazing story, +Rep