Lyion wrote:What the fuck are you talking about?
I assume you are talking to me so I'll answer based on that assumption.
Before this patch, a warrior would drop combat after killing a mob or player. This was quite nice because in a group pvp situation they could kill a guy, drop combat, change stance, and charge the next target.
With this latest patch blizzard "fixed" a bug involving totems. Apparently when a warrior killed a totem they would drop combat, and this was unintentional. Though I cant drop combat by killing a totem now (well actually I dont remember ever dropping combat by killing a totem before but I suppose that is moot), there are several side-effects from this change:
1) you can drop combat when sheeped
2) you are stuck in combat about 10-20 seconds longer than you use to be after winning a fight (and hence you cant instantly charge someone after a kill)
3) you can stay in combat forever with 25 rage by switching stances
I dont fully understand the mechanics yet of the new dropping out of combat, but I suspect it has to do with the time since the last ability was used or you were hit/had a spell cast on you. For example after killing a player or mob in 1v1, you are no longer instantly out of combat. If you do nothing and wait 10+ secs or so you will drop combat. If you battleshout or change stance, etc, you wont drop combat until roughly 10 seconds or so after the last ability used. If you change stances with 25 rage every 8 seconds or so you can stay in combat with 25 rage for ever (I tested this for 2 minutes duration of stance switching). If you are sheeped and unable to use an ability and if noone resheeps/uses any spell on you in less than roughly 10 seconds you can drop combat and charge the mage when the sheep breaks (this happens more in a group fight than a 1v1 situation obviously).
It also looks like there might be funky dropping of combat going on in a warrior vs priest pvp situation that seems somewhat unintentional. However I have yet to make enough solid observations to come to any firm conclusion or hypothesis about this yet.