Guild Wars 2

Someone left in our Fractal 26 run today. We were about to finish the third fractal before Maw. He was the ‘leader.’ We all got kicked. He proceeded to laugh at us in whisper. He is now blocked. [We need more options to report someone.]

Something needs to be done about this. It’s a stupid system and only leads to frustration. There should be no ‘leader’ on which the entire dungeon is dependent on. We should be able to find a 5th, not start again.

The issue isn’t that this person is the “leader,” but that they “opened” or instantiated the dungeon itself and are therefore is the owner of it. It seems like a basic technical issue, but may take a rework of the system to really fix correctly.

Fixing it would be somewhat complicated, but it would be most worthwhile to have some type of hierarchy so that the second person to enter would “inherit” the instance, etkittenil there was the last person in there and it was now his/her instance to continue if they so desired with a new group.

This would make chain runs pretty easy as well, but would complicate the issues with bringing in noob chars for the xp and loot at end bosses like maw. Not that the current system deals with that issue anyway.

lunyboy.8672:

Fixing it would be somewhat complicated, but it would be most worthwhile to have some type of hierarchy so that the second person to enter would “inherit” the instance, etkittenil there was the last person in there and it was now his/her instance to continue if they so desired with a new group.

Passing on the instance ownership would definitely be an improvement. It should also be made clear who the instance owner is at the moment, to avoid those annoying situations where the instance owner forgets that he’s the owner and leaves.

If I was a designer, I’d set up a pop-up box to show for all members after a leader leaves that requests the remaining players to volunteer as leader. First person to accept is made leader. If no one accepts before the timer runs out (30-60 seconds maybe?), then the group is disbanded.

This basically happened to my daily run yesterday but by accident. We finished Maw and was waiting for the daily chest to pop up, my guild member who was the leader left in a rush and completely forgot about the daily chest basically shafting the rest of us.

Things like this really kill the game for me, waste of my time. Things like this should have failsafes.

+1
anet pls fix this

This needs to be fixed bump

The system in LoTRO is very good…if the group “leader” drops someone else is randomly made group lead.

Anet needs this system so bad.

Once a group lead left after a lupi kill in arah…none of us got credit :-(. SOB!