Guild Wars 2

Last night I joined an already-in-progress Fractals 49. They advertised that they were “2nd fractal at boss.” I joined up, entered the instance, helped kill the boss (cliffside final boss) and we moved to the third fractal (grawl). As soon as we entered he third fractal, the instance host (from JQ) logged out to repair armor (we assumed). We cleared the first set of mobs, all the while everyone kept talking in chat about how we needed to wait for the 5th guy to come back and not to kick him because he was the host. He must have D/Ced cause he wouldn’t respond to anything we said. We ran down and did the middle boss and ran to the final boss and decided to try to 4-man. We failed a couple of times, and as we were trying a third time, the afk guy dropped party. The instance, however, stayed open! There were several WTFs in chat, and after we wiped for the third time we realized that the instance was now held in Kaineng (only I was from that server) instead of JQ as it was at first! We invited a 5th, completed the run, and went on our way.

So the question remains: did they fix the instance holder issue, or was this just a freak occurance?

They haven’t fixed it. There is something wonky with changing fractals while the owner is outside which transfers instance ownership or something, I’m not sure on the details.

I can confirm it was not fixed. I just quit a fractal run that I opened and got hate messages back.