Guild Wars 2

While I am a huge supporter of the notion of event chains to unlock access to dungeons (eg. Crucible of Eternity, Citadel of Flame) and believe that these event chains add to the experience and sense of accomplishment … when you have unlocked access to these dungeons it is a massive pain to have your progress blocked because the local area becomes contested. I’ve already unlocked the entrance, I’ve already done the event chain once, and now I have to do it again?

What is worse, is when a group member is disconnected and is placed outside the dungeon when they return, only to discover that it has become contested again while we’ve been inside … and so cannot rejoin the group. Please stop making dungeon entrances contested, I don’t believe that it adds enjoyment to the game … in fact I think it is a source of frustration.

Just to let you know. If a member disconnects and the dungeon is contested (but the group is still in the dungeon), the option will pop up saying if you want to join your group in the dungeon. You can enter.

I agree it doesn’t have much value. Maybe they should let us sneak in somehow (fill the area with mobs, whatever).

I concur,

it’s frustrating and tedious and adds nothing of value.

It’s especially annoying considering how many of these events bug out on a regular basis. I recall Arah being inaccessible for weeks on my server only a months or so back.

After spending one morning trying three times with more than a dozen other players to get Arah unlocked, I must agree. Especially with the draw of the new fractals, there just isn’t enough critical mass of players to keep most of the cathedrals and Arah unlocked and unconstested except possibly during primetime evening hours. And quite often not even then except for some very small time windows.

My guild finds common time for dungeon runs more often on weekend mornings USA time. We’ll probably never get to do Arah to finish even our story modes, let alone actually farm it for tokens/gear.

Dungeons become contested too fast. I don’t mind having to do an event to open it up. But they shouldn’t become contested every 5 or 10 minutes. When I do a dungeon run, I expect the dungeon to still be uncontested when I complete it, so I can do another run.