I was inside the Dark Argartha MegaBoss instance, fighting the big crab, when irl, a wasp invades my room. So I went afk like 1 min to show that wasp the way out, and when coming back to my puter, game had kicked me from the MB instance, and gave me the deserter flag…
A MB fight is anywhere from 2-3 minutes so you were afk for 33-50% of the fight. That being said its the first time I’ve seen the deserter system used correctly. 90% of the time it just gets applied to players unintentionally or accidentally due to crashes/ slow loading etc.