About Kicked individuals returning to the same instance...

[Gunspec]

Apologies if someone has mentioned this before, but I've experienced multiple situations where kicking someone and having them rejoin was a major blessing. I remember a particular Pharos Sirius run I was doing for an Animus book, where the tank disconnected in the sewer and was auto-kicked. After waiting almost ten minutes for a new tank to join and no results, one of the dps asked to be kicked (pretty sure he would still have had an "abandon penalty" if he left manually), and that same dps immediately reentered after switching to a Paladin. We were then able to finish the dungeon.

I have had this happen probably a half-dozen times since they enabled player kicking, whereas I've only experienced a player doing it with negative intentions once.

[Neuflune]

Apologies if someone has mentioned this before, but I've experienced multiple situations where kicking someone and having them rejoin was a major blessing. I remember a particular Pharos Sirius run I was doing for an Animus book, where the tank disconnected in the sewer and was auto-kicked. After waiting almost ten minutes for a new tank to join and no results, one of the dps asked to be kicked (pretty sure he would still have had an "abandon penalty" if he left manually), and that same dps immediately reentered after switching to a Paladin. We were then able to finish the dungeon.

I have had this happen probably a half-dozen times since they enabled player kicking, whereas I've only experienced a player doing it with negative intentions once.

If he left manually, since the party is not full, he would not have a penalty. I've done the same thing: we lost tank or healer, I'd leave and join in-progress as tank or healer.