Guild Wars 2

Minor complaint, but the Living Story instances are lacking some positive things the Personal Story had.

Specifically, I cannot leave an instance when the objectives (talking to Braham) are complete. I must reconnect or manually map myself out.

(Also, if we delete our Living Story mail, are we in deep skritt? How do we keep track without it being added to My Story?)

You can follow your progress through your achievements. There’s a special category for Living Story, which can be used as a guideline.

I had this same problem yesterday in 2 of the Flame and Frost instances. First in the one in the NW of Wayfarer Foothills, I entered this instance after stumbling upon it, went in and couldn’t get through the first gates (I think because I hadn’t yet talked to the precurser NPC), looked around and then could not leave back through where I came in and there was no button to exit the instance like what you see when you finish a dungeon. The same thing happened when I later went to the HQ place in the Charr city, I spoke with the NPC there who gave me a quest to go with Rox. Afterwords I couldn’t go out the way I came in and there was no button to leave the instance. In both cases I had to log out to character screen, when I came back I was outside the instance again.

This is actually a problem in ALL (almost) instances. The situation is that it’s the process of having a Personal Story step active which allows you to leave any non-dungeon instance. If you enter any instance – not just living story ones – after completing Victory or Death, unless there’s an interactive door like there is in Knut Whitebear’s Loft or an out-of-bounds boundary, you have to log out to exit.

I reported this months ago, and it still hasn’t been fixed. Now that ArenaNet is making heavier usage of these instances, it’s becoming a larger problem.