Guild Wars 2

Hello,
Members of my guild ran into an issue tonight and I’m not sure if it’s related to a change in the update today or an issue because of the server problems tonight.

We were doing the story instance for the new LS season 2 in Fort Salma when two of our party members disconnected. On their return to the game, they were not allowed to rejoin our group, instead they were removed to their own instance. I understand there was a part of the update where the ‘join party’ is no longer enabled if you’re in a different zone, but it doesn’t make much sense to disallow people from being able to complete content with a group.

Is this working as intended? Will this behavior happen during dungeons or fractals as well? Is there some other way to rejoin a group if someone disconnects? Having to have the entire group restart what they’re doing or have a member miss out is… not very user friendly. Please advise.

Personal Story instances are different from normal maps and dungeons/fractals. If you’re doing a PS instance with a party and one party member disconnects, that person is just out of luck because you can’t rejoin a PS instance already in progress.