Guild Wars 2

So, on a lark today I joined a group running TA explorable. This is my first dungeon in a while, since I typically run with my guild and for the past month+ I’ve been busy with irl things and they’ve been busy with other games.

This is also my first dungeon since I got a new router, and (spoiler alert) not the first time something bad has happened to me running explorable mode on a dungeon. Last time I did, it was AC, and the dungeon refused to end after my group beat the final boss on our path, resulting in us having to unceremoniously leave without a reward or a conclusion after about an hour of waiting around for an event to trigger.

So today, I notice that I get hit by several seconds of lag occasionally in combat, my character running around, failing to execute attacks as friend and foe stand eerily still before a sunburst of numbers and effects explode onto screen to make up for what I assume was a momentary hiccup in my internet connection. But I don’t disconnect, right? No big deal.

Then during a fight with a mob right before the last battle of the dungeon, my internet cuts out and I get dumped back in character select. I go “no big deal”, log back in, jump back in the dungeon, and tell my group that my internet crapped out, can they wait until I catch back up with them. When I try to teleport closer, game says I can’t- they’re in combat, which means I can’t teleport at all. So I hoof it back to where they are, because I think “gee, maybe I can at least help them with whatever enemy is making it impossible for me to get closer”.

Which is fine and dandy until I run into a mob that they didn’t kill on the way to the end of the dungeon and the lag hits again, followed by another disconnect. When I log back in and get back in the dungeon, my character is dead, and they’re still in combat (at the other end of the dungeon!!), so I cannot respawn unless I log out, log back in, decline the prompt to enter the dungeon, and respawn at a waypoint in Caledon Forest before getting back in the dungeon and running to them from the start.

By this point, my party is fighting the dungeon’s boss without me, and not answering any of my messages.

I die again on the way to them (really, guys, thank you for skipping the mobs, that was really thoughtful), have to log out to respawn because they can’t send anybody back to rescue me (or won’t), and by the time I get back into the dungeon, they’ve beaten the boss and completed it without me. I get no event, and no reward while everyone else is patting each other on their backs for a job well done. All I’m left with is a sense of frustration and disappointment, wondering why I even tried to catch up with my party after the first disconnect.

I’m not really looking for advice, since I know half of it will just be “lol get a new router”. I just wanted to vent and share a story of how the new dungeon teleportation rules screwed me over unexpectedly (and how the group I ran with didn’t help, either.)

It happened to me last night while I was w/ my guild running AC. Suddenly everybody was standing still for a while then I was D/C. I was playing w/ my mesmer so I have no problem running through the gauntlet, but I understand the frustration. For TA the run is longer and worse. But in Anet we trust, right? Buy new computer, new router, change everything because I’m sure the problem is always at our end.

The way things are, I don’t think I can trust my network for dungeons, which is pretty unfortunate. It isn’t normally this bad when I’m just playing through regular maps, which is the real kicker….

The devs have expressed a desire to change the locations of waypoints in dungeons. Initially, they had them spread out to discourage the whole graveyard-zerg deal. Now that WPing in dungeons isn’t possible in combat, you’ll be able to have your group exit combat and WP to a closer location (Note: TA has like ONE WP at the beginning which is just crap).

As for your team, those types are out there. I’d have been better to make sure the whole group was together before engaging and I’d have made that suggestion.

On the other hand, you did disconnect multiple times. Even if they all went back to get you, you’d have eventually dropped again. So you have to think about it that way too.

And on the last hand, about skipping…I don’t believe I’ve ever been on a team that has defeated everything on the way. Some have kinda-cleared but there’ll be one room somewhere in there that is just a skip. It’s really a bad dungeon to d/c in but is usually the one I have connection problems with (same as you describe but it’s not an all-the-time thing).

Leo G.4501:

And on the last hand, about skipping…I don’t believe I’ve ever been on a team that has defeated everything on the way. Some have kinda-cleared but there’ll be one room somewhere in there that is just a skip. It’s really a bad dungeon to d/c in but is usually the one I have connection problems with (same as you describe but it’s not an all-the-time thing).

Even if you killed everything in TA there is still a billion blossoms to deal with.

Ansemaru.7140:

So, on a lark today I joined a group running TA explorable. This is my first dungeon in a while, since I typically run with my guild and for the past month+ I’ve been busy with irl things and they’ve been busy with other games.

This is also my first dungeon since I got a new router, and (spoiler alert) not the first time something bad has happened to me running explorable mode on a dungeon. Last time I did, it was AC, and the dungeon refused to end after my group beat the final boss on our path, resulting in us having to unceremoniously leave without a reward or a conclusion after about an hour of waiting around for an event to trigger.

So today, I notice that I get hit by several seconds of lag occasionally in combat, my character running around, failing to execute attacks as friend and foe stand eerily still before a sunburst of numbers and effects explode onto screen to make up for what I assume was a momentary hiccup in my internet connection. But I don’t disconnect, right? No big deal.

Then during a fight with a mob right before the last battle of the dungeon, my internet cuts out and I get dumped back in character select. I go “no big deal”, log back in, jump back in the dungeon, and tell my group that my internet crapped out, can they wait until I catch back up with them. When I try to teleport closer, game says I can’t- they’re in combat, which means I can’t teleport at all. So I hoof it back to where they are, because I think “gee, maybe I can at least help them with whatever enemy is making it impossible for me to get closer”.

Which is fine and dandy until I run into a mob that they didn’t kill on the way to the end of the dungeon and the lag hits again, followed by another disconnect. When I log back in and get back in the dungeon, my character is dead, and they’re still in combat (at the other end of the dungeon!!), so I cannot respawn unless I log out, log back in, decline the prompt to enter the dungeon, and respawn at a waypoint in Caledon Forest before getting back in the dungeon and running to them from the start.

By this point, my party is fighting the dungeon’s boss without me, and not answering any of my messages.

I die again on the way to them (really, guys, thank you for skipping the mobs, that was really thoughtful), have to log out to respawn because they can’t send anybody back to rescue me (or won’t), and by the time I get back into the dungeon, they’ve beaten the boss and completed it without me. I get no event, and no reward while everyone else is patting each other on their backs for a job well done. All I’m left with is a sense of frustration and disappointment, wondering why I even tried to catch up with my party after the first disconnect.

I’m not really looking for advice, since I know half of it will just be “lol get a new router”. I just wanted to vent and share a story of how the new dungeon teleportation rules screwed me over unexpectedly (and how the group I ran with didn’t help, either.)

Lol get a new router.

DeathPanel.8362:

Ansemaru.7140:

So, on a lark today I joined a group running TA explorable. This is my first dungeon in a while, since I typically run with my guild and for the past month+ I’ve been busy with irl things and they’ve been busy with other games.

This is also my first dungeon since I got a new router, and (spoiler alert) not the first time something bad has happened to me running explorable mode on a dungeon. Last time I did, it was AC, and the dungeon refused to end after my group beat the final boss on our path, resulting in us having to unceremoniously leave without a reward or a conclusion after about an hour of waiting around for an event to trigger.

So today, I notice that I get hit by several seconds of lag occasionally in combat, my character running around, failing to execute attacks as friend and foe stand eerily still before a sunburst of numbers and effects explode onto screen to make up for what I assume was a momentary hiccup in my internet connection. But I don’t disconnect, right? No big deal.

Then during a fight with a mob right before the last battle of the dungeon, my internet cuts out and I get dumped back in character select. I go “no big deal”, log back in, jump back in the dungeon, and tell my group that my internet crapped out, can they wait until I catch back up with them. When I try to teleport closer, game says I can’t- they’re in combat, which means I can’t teleport at all. So I hoof it back to where they are, because I think “gee, maybe I can at least help them with whatever enemy is making it impossible for me to get closer”.

Which is fine and dandy until I run into a mob that they didn’t kill on the way to the end of the dungeon and the lag hits again, followed by another disconnect. When I log back in and get back in the dungeon, my character is dead, and they’re still in combat (at the other end of the dungeon!!), so I cannot respawn unless I log out, log back in, decline the prompt to enter the dungeon, and respawn at a waypoint in Caledon Forest before getting back in the dungeon and running to them from the start.

By this point, my party is fighting the dungeon’s boss without me, and not answering any of my messages.

I die again on the way to them (really, guys, thank you for skipping the mobs, that was really thoughtful), have to log out to respawn because they can’t send anybody back to rescue me (or won’t), and by the time I get back into the dungeon, they’ve beaten the boss and completed it without me. I get no event, and no reward while everyone else is patting each other on their backs for a job well done. All I’m left with is a sense of frustration and disappointment, wondering why I even tried to catch up with my party after the first disconnect.

I’m not really looking for advice, since I know half of it will just be “lol get a new router”. I just wanted to vent and share a story of how the new dungeon teleportation rules screwed me over unexpectedly (and how the group I ran with didn’t help, either.)

Lol get a new router.

lol

seriously though sorry to hear about your issue but honestly when I’m in a dungeon with someone who continuously disconnects they become a liability ( I know I’m an kitten for saying that but it’s the truth). It’d be best if they could figure out what going on with their system/network before trying dungeons again.

Folk.2093:

lol

seriously though sorry to hear about your issue but honestly when I’m in a dungeon with someone who continuously disconnects they become a liability ( I know I’m an kitten for saying that but it’s the truth). It’d be best if they could figure out what going on with their system/network before trying dungeons again.

Yes, I agree. Everybody has d/c issue should spend thousand dollars more to buy a new PC, a new router and keep doing it until their system can play a $50 game.

Or buy a different game (it’s probably a cheaper solution).

Sorry to hear your story but the truth is that the problem was you, not your party. They didn’t kick you after you dced and had no problem with you running back and dying. I guess if you’d just stay dead and get the dungeon reward there wouldn’t be any problem as well. Many people would just kick you. I think if something like this happens again try to wait for them to end a fight and tp to them when they’ll be out of combat.