Guild Wars 2

I am not talking about the normal Durmand Priory instance you get from walking over the grate. I am talking about the one that you access in the Hidden Arcana section of Living Story Season 2. On the wiki, it says that this area can now be accessed out of the story… but when I talk to the dwarf he does not give me the option to go there, and any of the other grates around the hero point do not give me a popup telling me that I can go anywhere but the basic Durmand instance.

Is the wiki wrong, or am I just missing something? Will I have to do Hidden Arcana again to unlock it or something?

As you head down the pathway leading to the Source of the Priory HP, approach the grating to the left of that HP. You should get a prompt asking if you want to go to the Durmand Priory instance.

If you want to access the Priory instance in the story, and do story-related content, you have to initiate the Chapter.

If you want to access the Priory instance that changed since doing the story, with all the lore books, etc., you use the normal entrance.

I think it’s account-wide, and not character-specific. I’ve not tried, though, with a character that hasn’t done the story…I think.

Good luck.