Guild Wars 2

Someone suggested as a fast leveling method, I do dungeons on my 80 main character, and right before the final boss reward I switch to an alt to claim the xp.

I did this and the dungeon ended up breaking – the alt entered a new instance, and when I went back onto the first character it entered that new instance, so I was unable to link up with my party. Party members who zoned out and back in also entered the new instance and were unable to return.

I understand if this behavior is intended, because cheese leveling alts this way is pretty silly, but if it is intended it shouldn’t fully break the dungeon, and I should be able to get back in on the first character and clear it as normal.

Probably a bug, since rewards are account bound. Have you submitted a ticket to get teh support reps to check it out?

IME if you DC and attempt to re-enter on the actual same character, there’s a good chance it’ll end up breaking, too.

As noted tho, there’s not any good reason not to just play the character you want, cuz tokens are account bound.

If the alt needs the xp, just play the alt, yeah?

Were you the party leader— as in the person who walked into the instance portal first and is often displayed in the cutscenes for that dungeon? If so, then there’s a good chance that you might have broke it that way.

“Tries to exploit, breaks the instance, posts that it should be fixed”

Ouch! That’s gotta hurt. How much EXP can you get from dungeons this way? Also, if dungeons scale up then wouldn’t it be too tough for your lower level character if you entered with a higher one?

Grumpdogg.6910:

“Tries to exploit, breaks the instance, posts that it should be fixed”

All he needs is a Scumbag Steve cap…

Grumpdogg.6910:

“Tries to exploit, breaks the instance, posts that it should be fixed”

It should be fixed in that it explicitly tells me ‘ha ha no you can’t do that’, and then tells me to go back on my main character to finish up. Or, if it’s intended, to let me clear the dungeon anyway, without the dungeon breaking. Since it doesn’t do that, I’m asking here what the dungeon is supposed to do.

I was doing AC explore mode, so any character higher than 35 can still be effective for the final boss encounter. You get roughly 70% of a level off a dungeon, and my main has little use for the piles of xp he’s accumulating. It’s just that my main is geared for speedclearing and my alt is a not-particularly-useful engineer.

edit: Dungeon owner logging off causes everyone to just get kicked out of the dungeon, IIRC. Which is bad, but better than splitting the party into multiple instances.

uhm this game practically throws xp at you, not that I’m complaining….but why on earth are people even doing stuff like this? I swear, some people are just completely ridiculous.

Really, why? Just why even do this?

face palm the dungeon break has NOTHING to do with what you were intending to do on your alt. As the person that initially OPENED the instance, you triggered the dungeon reset mechanism the moment you logged on another character. the party leader cannot log on another char, simple as that.

Gehenna.3625:

uhm this game practically throws xp at you, not that I’m complaining….but why on earth are people even doing stuff like this? I swear, some people are just completely ridiculous.

Really, why? Just why even do this?

I have no idea either. Pretty silly in my opinion. Besides how are you going to be good on that alt when you do decide to bring it to WvW or dungeon runs if you do that.

Isn’t leveling easy enough? I wasn’t even trying to level when I reached 80 lol