Guild Wars 2

So tonight, I was doing a Sorrow’s Embrace run with a few friends and needed a couple randoms. We advertised our party, and got a couple players. Awesome, we thought, we’ve got a team and we can roll this.

The ranger in our party seemed to specifically wait for us to drop combo and damage fields with long cooldowns, then rush in and knock the enemy out of them. When we kindly asked him to stop, he responded with rude comments. We opted to kick him and re-advertise to fill in his slot.

Trouble is, as soon as we advertised again, he rejoined our party. We kicked and advertised, this time altering the title of our LFG group to ask him not to join. He joined again. Kicked, advertised (Nobody else we knew was online so we figured we needed to) and he rejoined.

By this point, my friends and I were confident we could just run the dungeon with us and our fourth random, so we wanted to kick the guy again and just go without advertising… but somehow the LFG system made him our party leader. I’m not sure if that’s the reason why the option to kick him would no longer appear for the rest of the dungeon.

I’d like to know why we couldn’t kick this toxic player and safely re-advertise our party without worrying about him instantly taking the slot back. We even blocked him before we kicked him the final time, and he was still able to join with no issue at all. Was this intentional, ANet? If not, is there something in the pipes to deal with it? When we kick someone it means we do not want them in our party, there’s no reason we’d be okay with them rejoining five seconds later.

If we could only accept or reject the player to the party, this would not happen

Next level LFG system.

I wonder when it’ll come out of beta.

Such abuse. They should fix this.

Harper.4173:

Such abuse. They should fix this.

But they won’t. If we get any response at all, it will be “It’s working as intended” just so they can avoid the issue and not have to do anything. Sadly, this is what Anet has become.