Guild Wars 2

One thing that I seem to be noticing a lot more lately is the fact that people are completely ignoring Story Mode of dungeons hoping that someone in the party will already have done it. Generally this can lead to situations where no one in the group has done Story and then people just wind up sitting about doing nothing, shouting drama and stuff in chat etc.

Seeing as it’s occurring more from my perspective there are numerous things that could be done to alleviate this.

Have it automatically unlock at the appropriate level.
This seems like the most logical solution and possibly the easiest. It will probably solve a lot of the problems that occur at the minute.

Make Story Mode unlocks account bound
This means that you still have to do Story Mode but just the once seeing as it will be account bound. Might cause problems with groups finding it for the first time though.

Block people who haven’t done Story Mode from Explorable Mode
This one will probably cause a bit of controversy but again, it’s another solution to the problem. You still get EXP and money from doing Story Mode. Changes to the rewards might be required though.

Discover the dungeon to unlock both modes
This is similar to the first solution but it would unlock explorable at Story Mode level.

This is all I can think of for the minute. There are probably two good solutions from this list in my opinion but if anyone else has stuff to add, then feel free.

I don’t want any of your suggestions to be implemented, if no one have to do story to unlock explorable (or only has to do it once per account) then how would anyone be able to find a group for doing story mode? It’s hard enough as it is

i’ve talked with my guild about this and a lot of us agree that having explorable mode be account bound seems like a very reasonable suggestion.

lack of account bound is why its like it is, no real reason to do story more then 1 time and with most people having multiple toons its very likely they have done story, just not on that toon.