ARR and Dungeons/Istances timers.

[EinSoFZ]

You're too tragic. I've played so many mmo, and in my experience it just happened sometime that someone had to go afk for a couple of minutes.

Let's suppose that someone had to go out for an unexpected emergency close to the final boss of the dungeon with POOR minute left, prolly you'll lost cuz of timer...
But if there weren't a timer, you could simply replace the member that had to go with someone else, in guild for example, or in the case of WoW with Content finder, it will automatically find someone for you cross server and then the dungeon continue.

No stress, no offense for who had to go for an emergency.


Ohhh the same example could work if someone DC ! How many time someone Dc/ed during the final boss during a speed run, or in the middle of the dungeon??? In FFXIV (in FFXI too) this is A STRESSFULL NIGHTMARE. And don't try to say that i'm wrong. At 90% you had to go out from the dungeon and restart all over.

WITHOUT A TIMER THIS NOT HAPPENS!

I've actually had that happen and the game has measures. If your party clears it, you clear it. If you d/c and log back in, you're still in the instance in your party. There's still no good excuse for abolishing the timers besides arbitrary needs to afk and the belief that timers somehow take something away from the experience. Both are awful reasons.

[Dragonheart]

I've actually had that happen and the game has measures. If your party clears it, you clear it. If you d/c and log back in, you're still in the instance in your party. There's still no good excuse for abolishing the timers besides arbitrary needs to afk and the belief that timers somehow take something away from the experience. Both are awful reasons.

Ofcourse i mean for long dc, or if the member can't login for any reason.

[EinSoFZ]

Ofcourse i mean for long dc, or if the member can't login for any reason.

If it were me, I'd just chalk it up to bad luck and try to do it again; not try to change an entire game mechanic to prevent it from happening. Sometimes shit happens and you just have to take the punch.