New limit of 30 instances per day on top of 5 per hour...

[nodoze]

Blizzard just announced the new limit of 30 instances per day on top of 5 per hour...

https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wo...classic/158896

This applies to both raids and dungeons so if you go raiding on your main before a day focused on heavy grinding you can be locked out before your alts...

Conversely if you grind dungeons a bunch before your raids your main could get locked out of the raids...

[Fuii]

The important side note on this is:

This check is across all of your characters on your realm.

The 5 per 1 hour can be worked around with a different character.
Though the 30 per 24 hours is for your account per server, regardless of character.

More importantly if you are doing things like frequent instance resets to look for a rare mob (like Jed) utilizing multiple characters you'll accumulate those 30 IDs quite fast.

[MiRai]

The 5 per 1 hour can be worked around with a different character.

Is this true?

As far as I can remember, which admittedly is only as far back as WotLK because that's when BNet accounts became a thing for WoW, the instance limit, per-hour, has always been for an entire WoW license and not just one character, and that still holds true today in Retail.

[strokes]

I've never been able to juke the 5/hr limit by switching characters. That would be a godsend for boosting.

[Fuii]

Is this true?

As far as I can remember, which admittedly is only as far back as WotLK because that's when BNet accounts became a thing for WoW, the instance limit, per-hour, has always been for an entire WoW license and not just one character, and that still holds true today in Retail.

Well okay, incorrectly phrased. With "character" I meant a character from another WoW license.

[jak3676]

This check is across all of your characters on your realm.

Is is safe to assume this is per WoW account and not per Blizzard account? Saying "all of your char's on your realm" doesn't really explain it.

[nodoze]

Is is safe to assume this is per WoW account and not per Blizzard account? Saying "all of your char's on your realm" doesn't really explain it.

Yes I believe it is per WoW account and not Blizzard Battle.net account. No true confirmation yet though. I think folk are testing to verify.

[Ellay]

I can see it potentially what they are trying to stop - and this should thwart bots somewhat if they are grinding an instance 24/7. As long as this doesn't touch the battlenet ID and is account only - we'll see soon enough. Because capping at 30 instances a day if you run a dungeon and it takes up 5 of those slots. You're limited to 6 dungeons in a 24 hour window.
Can you imagine trying to level a new team, using dungeon finder and you can only play 6 then you're stuck questing?
What happens with Timewalking and you finish it on one team. Swap to another and you are capped.

Anyone in classic - interested to hear how it works.

[Purpleflavor]

I can see it potentially what they are trying to stop - and this should thwart bots somewhat if they are grinding an instance 24/7. As long as this doesn't touch the battlenet ID and is account only - we'll see soon enough. Because capping at 30 instances a day if you run a dungeon and it takes up 5 of those slots. You're limited to 6 dungeons in a 24 hour window.
Can you imagine trying to level a new team, using dungeon finder and you can only play 6 then you're stuck questing?
What happens with Timewalking and you finish it on one team. Swap to another and you are capped.

Anyone in classic - interested to hear how it works.

Is dungeon finder effected by the lock out? I never notice it being so. I think dungeon finder is separate but i'm not sure. Would be terrible if you cant dungeon level teams without being gated by this.

[nodoze]

Yeah it would be pretty messed up if it were per battle.net and not wow account. Would push folk to want to have as many battle.nets as possible and likely favor botters who likely are using 1bnet per wow account.