Originally Posted by
Zizzzzy
Edit: Due to some questioning the need to do the additional CRZ group steps prior to joining the BG, I went back to test to confirm. I was able to skip these steps and can confirm they are not required. I must have still been muttering with ranges when I switched to testing that method. Sorry for any misdirection for anybody. In this situation still however, it is important to only block your CRZ realm ip and not to bother with ranges. Below wills till work, however has redundant steps.
So in my case I was having a lot of trouble with the standard BG method for Deepholm as my server was part host. My xxx.xxx.ccc.xxx IP was the same so all attempts to block my CRZ ip (even single IP of the CRZ server) when retuning from a BG Alt-F4 would produce a "Character not Found".
I theorized that the only way I could get booted back to my default Login realm with an IP block instead of my home realm CRZ, I would need to not be on my server when I join the BG.
These are the Steps that worked for me:
âą Go to your Deepholm, record your CRZ IP
âą Queue for Ordos or Celestial World boss, accept an invite that forces you to Server change to a new CRZ Deepholm.
âą Enable the Block on YOUR CRZ Deepholm, Queue for random BG.
âą When Queue pops, leave raid and immediately accept BG queue
âą Alt-F4 and Block the Deepholm CRZ you were phased to when you joined the World boss raid.
âą Wait your 5 minutes, log back in. You should be dumped to your Login Server's Deepholm.
Twice when I was doing this for some unknown reason when I logged back in instead of getting my empty home realm I was on another random CRZ, I simply requeued for another BG, Alt-F4 and blocked the range for the new random CRZ server and logged back in... this time getting my home server as I expected.
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Example with numbers:
xxx.xxx.123.175 - Login Server
xxx.xxx.123.185 - CRZ Deepholm
Using standard Alt-F4 with a Block on xxx.xxx.123.185 would produce Character not Found. I would expect with xxx.xxx.123.185 blocked that you would be bounced back to xxx.xxx.123.175, however you are not. Every attempt resulted in either "Character not found" by hitting too early, or an empty zone by doing too late and hitting offline mode.
Using the above Realm shift and home CRZ block prior to joining BG, your characters last world location is on a different server and allows the client to default you to your xxx.xxx.123.175 version of Deepholm. (at least that's the best theory I have without really knowing whats going on)
Hope this helps some of the folks who were stuck on this one due to hosting the CRZ. I had to wait several days to get mine, didnt end up spawning till late Thursday