Guild Wars 2

It has probably been mentioned a lot of times but I don’t know if this should be as intended but recently I started doing dungeons again and while we finished p1 in CoF leader left the group and we got kicked out of the dungeon so I did not get the loot. Now this is very annoying and if there has been some exotic item, or precursor, this is going to be very frustrating, but we will never know. So is this intended or it is a bug?

EDIT: Oh, didn’t know this was from the start of the game, probably because I was dungeoning with a friend of mine who I was skyping with so he didn’t leave until we got all our loot and we took our time, sorry I didn’t know what the reason was.

It’s been like this since the start of the game, and is intended. The party leader is the one that has created the instance, and when he leaves, it shuts down.

Unfortunately it’s extremely inconvenient, especially when people like the leader do this. We haven’t heard of any changes happening to this (it would be a difficult change).

Next time politely PM him and remind him to wait a bit so hopefully future dungeon runners don’t get robbed again.

I am afraid it is normal to lose your progress in this game.

This has only happened to me once. I think it’s pretty rare.

Guildie of ours got dusk drop from fractals. Could have been a dungeon but that’s not important.
He had full inventory and was about to make room to pick it up when owner left dungeon.
He was a guildie too but just left dungeon straight away soon as it finished.

Lost both guildies, one I asked to leave.
The other lost all motivation for the game.

Working as intended?
You get the chest if you leave the dungeon, why not loot you can’t pick up cos someone is idiot?
Not a massive global problem compared to other things but I saw the response from anet and not good.
I learnt long time ago to pick up loot very quick and I don’t know the answer, maybe isn’t one but it sucks.

this issue seriously needs to be fixed

What you don’t know can’t hurt you.

Be quicker grabbing your loot. This is down to you, the player, not the instance owner.

If I open an instance, I’m not going to wait for someone to grab their coffee, mourn their late family, walk their dog, eat their dinner, sleep then return from work the next day before looting their chest – I’m just leaving the group.

If I looted my chest already, why haven’t you?

Keep in mind party leader has to leave party for the instance to close. He can step outside the dungeon just fine to let you finish while he merches or something. It takes a special sort of rushing to leave party so quickly at the end if others are still grabbing.

maxinion.8396:

Keep in mind party leader has to leave party for the instance to close. He can step outside the dungeon just fine to let you finish while he merches or something. It takes a special sort of rushing to leave party so quickly at the end if others are still grabbing.

This. Leave party once you’re out of the dungeon. You have to sit through the zone change load screen anyway, and this makes sure that everyone else has a reasonable amount of time to grab what they need.

Flissy.4093:

What you don’t know can’t hurt you.

Be quicker grabbing your loot. This is down to you, the player, not the instance owner.

If I open an instance, I’m not going to wait for someone to grab their coffee, mourn their late family, walk their dog, eat their dinner, sleep then return from work the next day before looting their chest – I’m just leaving the group.

If I looted my chest already, why haven’t you?

Of course you don’t have to give the benefit of the doubt. There’s no rule that says you have to be a decent human being. This is an MMO, after all! xD

I usually make space in bags before final boss in dungeons/fractals when i pug. I kind of expect people to leave group quickly at end of dungeons, but once I hit level 30 on fractals everyone kinda wants to wait and see if anyone got ascendeds or fractal skins.