Guild Wars 2

I’ve only ever tried two dungeons: Mad King boss, which I did about half a dozen times, and most of a single fractal dungeon. I’d like to get more into them, but I don’t understand some of the ways dungeons work re: disconnects and party dynamics.

First, it seems like if the person who creates the party leaves the dungeon, the dungeon is gone for everyone. Is that right? That seemed to be the case in Mad King.

Second, if someone disconnects does that mean the group is pretty much over? We had one person disconnect immediately before the first boss in the fractal I was doing and they could not rejoin the group at all. Is that normal?

How is it supposed to work when anyone / party leader disconnects? What about when anyone / party leader has to quit? Are you supposed to be able to get someone else in to replace that person? How is that even possible (without spamming your guild chat / friends list)? I guess I’m just confused because I would have expected none of this to make any difference to anything.

Should I post this in a different forum or something?

Think this is the right place and I would love to hear devs about an update on this. Trying to help guildmembers out doing lower lvl fractal runs. First run someone crashed or ragequit after first boss when we entered the swamp map.

Second try someone had to leave and we got stuck with 4 again.

Third time we had another D/C and he couldnt reconnect (due to diff overflow?) while we had finished first map.

Fourth time we guild leader d/ced and couldnt reconnect due to overflow as well, that was halfway towards 2nd boss. We did 2nd boss with 4, but we did the run for guild leader and another member who where stuck on 2 from the first run mentioned. After 2nd boss we still had to go 2 more and as he still couldnt reconnect, we just called it a day again….

Thats in 2 days so far, and I think this issue need quick fixing, everytime someone quits, or leaves or d/cs or crashes ur run is over and as they sometimes take quite a while it feels like wasted time when not getting the level up.

Is anet working on this? =[ Or are you guys not even aware of this problem yet?

Sorry if no one is responding, the question was answered a while back by AN here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/DC-in-fractals-no-way-to-get-back-in

hope that helps

Both issues are a problem. Leader kicking everyone happens everywhere. Lack of reconnect/inability to get a replacement is FOTM only.

In other news: They have heard our feedback and are investigating possible solutions. These are hot topics around the office. As soon as they have more to share they will.