Guild Wars 2

Hello all,

I run a lot of dungeons but there’s one thing that’s got me stumped.
Lets run through a scenario:

We have a full party ready to do explore mode in Citadel of Flames. One of the members runs up, clicks the button and — oops! They only have Story Mode available on that character.

They come back out and then we’re not able to start an Explore Mode with any character. So afterwards-

-All players, even those who have Explore unlocked, do not have a “Explore Mode” button if they wish to start one.
-Logging out, Restarting the client, Restarting the computer and even having the entire party leave the map and come back do not fix this.
-Only by kicking out the player who started Story Mode are we able to start an Explore.
-After starting an Explore (with missing member), we can invite that person to the party but upon entering the dungeon they are in a separate instance (Story Mode).

So, Am I missing something? Is there some way to ‘quit’ story mode? This was a very large detriment to our party last night and hope there’s some way this could get looked into. I know it’s a very obscure thing, but it’s a really terrible feeling to bench a guildmate while they watch you play. :/

Thank you for your time,
Thorigrim ~ Circle of Honor ~ Ferguson’s Crossing

If anyone could address this or link me to a post where this has been solved, I’d greatly appreciate it.

Or getting a few bumps would be nice, as this has just happened to us again. :/ So this dungeon is bunk for tonight…

They need to reset their instance. They do this by going to a personal instance e.g. a home instance in say the Queens chambers in Divinity’s Reach. The fastest personal instance though is using a Hall of Monument Stone (purchased for free from Vendor in LA). Once they are in their own instance, they simply leave and the dungeon is now reset. Nobody needs to be kicked but as you have found out that is an alternative.