10man achieve's in a 25man lockout.

[RoonyHD]

I don't really know how this worked, but I'll try 10man to 25man next shutdown.

In short,
I was soloing Ulduar 25man, cleared a few bosses before I noticed server+instance shutdown was soon (only 15minute restart). So I sat and exited the game whilst still inside the instance. Servers came back up and I was still inside Ulduar so I continued, wiped on Mimiron and ran back in. Didn't notice until I'd got Shadowdodger (10 player) that the raid had been switched to 10man. Walked out, changed back to 25man and finished Yogg.

Here's a screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/6GsnjWo.jpg
note lockout says 25 player.
So maybe when I died, and got ported outside the instance for the first time since restart, it auto-changed to 10man?

Main advantage of this 'bug' would be getting missing achievements without wasting a lockout, or 25man achievements in 10man, seeing if the difficulty setting changes too? Maybe get a mythic achievement in a heroic lockout?
Can't confirm just yet, just wanted to share incase another realm is getting a quick restart.

[lilsniff]

This is not a bug.
Your dungeon diff. will automatically switch over to 10-man after you've been offline and/or dead for a while.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but this has no use.

And you can change the lockout from 10-25 or 25-10 as many times as you like to do bosses on different diffs.

[moener]

This isn't an exploit, its a result of blizz merging the lockouts of 10/25 back in Cata?. It's what most people do when they farm LK25HC or Yogg they clear up til the boss on 10 then zone out and set to 25.

[RoonyHD]

Damn, I searched everywhere hoping that wasn't the case, disregard this thread then. Derp.

[lilsniff]

Btw, did he drop 10m loot aswell? And did it say 10 or 25 up by the minimap?

[RoonyHD]

It said 10m, the loot that dropped was 10m too unfortunately. Even if this is a normal occurrence I'm going to test this in mythic SoO next week ^^ I'll update the thread with what happened. I suppose the strange thing was the lack of system message or warning about 10m>25m.

[Fermie]

It said 10m, the loot that dropped was 10m too unfortunately. Even if this is a normal occurrence I'm going to test this in mythic SoO next week ^^ I'll update the thread with what happened. I suppose the strange thing was the lack of system message or warning about 10m>25m.

Test this in Mythic? Mythic will be a problem.

[RoonyHD]

Why's that? If I just keep a lockout from my guild raid, exit inside instance before shutdown/reset and rejoin to see what happens.

[Bomboclat]

Theres actually something going on here thats really frustrating. Last night i ran ICC 25h. Killed all bosses and ported to LK's room. Killed LK and got achievement for 10 man regular and got 10m regular loot ilvl 251. I never changed raid size or difficulty.