Guild Wars 2

MatthewMedina.5419:

Thanks for expressing your concerns. It’s definitely our preference to give players as much choice about their instanced experiences as possible. Whenever possible, we make instances capable of being either soloed or completed in groups.

However, in this particular case, because we are manually intercepting everyone over level 25 and automatically loading them into the instance, we currently don’t have support for parties to be brought into the instance together under those circumstances. This is something that we are looking at addressing for the future. It was not an easy choice, but for narrative reasons we felt it would have been less impactful for players to load straight into Kessex Hills without having experienced the instance beforehand.

I do regret that we weren’t able to offer “The Nightmare Unveiled” as group content at this time, but hopefully the remainder of the open world content makes up for this.. :-)

Then, I would have to say that the “forced interception” is the problem. I went to just have a look, was immediately put in semi rage mode by it, and just ran out of bounds. This kicked me to the new Kessex map, and I actually had access to Kasmeer, Marjory, and in fact Marjory asked me if I wanted to “replay” the instance. Kasmeer congratulated me on lifting the Veil. As far as the map and they were concerned, I had done Veil. All quests and events were open.

(please note I did none of the map, no intention of doing any of this, was just playing tourist. No “exploit” to do content I have no intention of doing, nor will I return to this zone. All 9 chars have finished the normal map)

Simply allowing people to take the instance quest from the Sgt. and allowing them to form parties, like Personal Story, would seem to be a solution, rather than forcibly hijacking people and bluntly doing “you HAZ to do this ITS FUN” kidnap on entering the zone.

Why not have us go into Kessex Hills, then go to a particular location, ie Thunderhill Ridge (I think that’s the name)? Or at least someplace nearby. That way we could play as a group…

I personally found it odd and awkward loading into a story instance immediately upon entering Kessex Hills. Because the story is way over to the West. But I entered from the North/East side of it. And my friends got caught off guard when they waypointed there from Lion’s Arch.

The Krait are nowhere near the swampy area that I entered into. So it felt weird for me.

Oh… it also annoyed me when I went into Kessex Hills and got thrown into the story for another reason: I only wanted to play the game long enough to get my character to the area with the new content. I did not want to play it longer than 10 minutes (which that story takes way longer, especially for my level 26 character sans an elite skill).

And if you have a level requirement in the future, can you have it be 30? It is really rough doing a lot of stuff without an elite skill.

Simple:

1- Add a solo instance that is scaled for one person.
2- Add a group instance that is scaled for multiple.

Solved.

Every single time we have a forced solo instance a bunch of people complain that they would like the OPTION of playing with friends. And every time the next Living Story has a forced solo instance.

Alex.9567:

i liked the way it went straight in to the story when loading into kessex hills, i was getting tired of the formula of: load in, find npc, talk to them, accept mission. the straight load in made the story feel seamless and it felt like it mattered in the moment, so i’m very happy with that decision.

I also liked having a solo instance, it made it feel like a personal mission, however there should be an option for people who want/need to group up.

This I agree with