Guild Wars 2

Currently on the Sorrow’s Furnace server, Ascalonian Catacombs and Sorrow’s Embrace are bugged and completely unenterable in Explorable Mode. It has been this way since the patch. Other dungeons may be experiencing this issue as well, but I have not checked them.

If a player in the party enters the dungeon, they are taken into it correctly, however no player can follow them in. Accepting the game’s invitation to “join your party” in the dungeon has no effect, and attempting to enter yourself directly acts as if there is no existing dungeon instance (and entering from there creates a new instance just for yourself that nobody else can join.) Thus, no two players can be in the Explorable Mode dungeon together.

I’ve tried a few different methods to circumvent the problem (staggering the pace of the players entering the dungeon, inviting the players into the party from within the dungeon, etc. etc.), none of which were successful. A fix will have to come from the developer end for the dungeons to be playable again.

Also worth noting that the zones (Plains of Ashford, Dredgehaunt Cliffs) exhibit unusual party behavior as well. Like dungeons, Personal Story instances cannot bring other party members in. In addition, if a party member ventures too far from you they disappear off your display, despite being in the same zone. The game tells you they are a “level 0 <class>” in your current zone and their locational dot moves to a stationary, arbitrary point on the map, sometimes not even in the zone but rarely anywhere even remotely close to where they actually are.

Because I have been unable to play my current dungeons of choice at all since the patch, I have no data to offer with regards to the diminished rewards bug.