Guild Wars 2

I’ve seen multiple reports of people finding the verdant brink meta unintentionally difficult because of the number of people afking or simply not participating while waiting to raid.

The solution, i think, is to make a separate instance in-between verdant brink and the raid, with its own map chat vendors. It could even be the entrance portion of the raid, just with a portal allowing access to the main raid.

The idea, of course, being essentially that anyone who is wanting to raid would be there, so it would be a much better place to go to find raid groups, hopefully moving afkers out of VB itself.

I agree. Sort of like a “shared instance”, similar to the one at the beginning of Heart of Thorns story where a shared instance of Silverwastes was the staging area. A shared instance is a instanced portion of a map but many people are able to enter it via a trigger.

You’d think this is something they would have anticipated.