Guild Wars 2

A couple of times I have been in a Dry Top thats reached Tier 4 and has a chance for Tier 5 and all of a sudden everyone gets a notice that the zone is going to be closed and they are offered a 10 min buff to swap to a “better” one.

Every time I accept the buff i am put in a map that has much less progress towards zephyrite favor and in 1 case i moved from a tier 4 to a tier 1.

Anyone else having this same issue or am I just imagining that they didn’t account for progress when they designed the “zone closing” program?

Yeah I tend to ignore that thing entirely, it seems busted tbh.

It’s doing exactly as it says – moving you to another copy of the map, once which probably won’t be doing as well as your own. Especially in the case of Dry Top, it’d be best if the current reward tier was taken into account; and not just closing an instance just because it’s old – only if it’s nearly empty.

After getting swapped through four or five maps right after each other i’ve taken to just ignoring the prompt. The buff is nothing I need and I’d rather have the hour to play unbothered than keep getting thrown around.

In Dry Top specifically this can be an issue.

I’ve also been in a t4 map which was well on it’s way to t5, then the Volunteer option pops up and (I can only assume here) a large portion of players on the map click the button. Progress all but stopped, map chat dwindled away and all chance at higher rewards vanished.

I am surprised by this. I really thought the Volunteer option was there for maps low on people, not simply as a timer. Hopefully they can fix it to work that way; there’s no reason to ask a full map to move on.