Guild Wars 2

From patch notes as of 13 hours ago …

The gate to Arah in Cursed Shore will now only be closed when events directly in front of it are active.

Wasn’t the point of having them closed if the undead took over the area, was so that players would be forced to take it back if they wanted to do the dungeon?

This seems like a little too much give to those who do not want to do the events. I’ve seen people say Arah is bugged on my server when in fact the event chain was active and working, just no where near ready to take Arah.

Seems like the change was made to allow people to bypass the events if they failed to defend Arah, avoiding the whole point of defending Arah from the undead, so the pact (which includes us) could access Arah. And if you failed to defend it, you had to fight to get it back.

Why such a back flip on a key point of the game?

My guess is that this is temporary to prevent the gate from being bugged shut on some servers for days at a time, not allowing anyone access at all, even when the event has been successfully completed.

3 months too late but better late than never. On some servers Arah have been bugging after 2 hrs of server restart. There were numerous reports about that issue.