Manually join another player's instance

[Naunet]

Can we please get an option to manually change our Instance channel in zones? Or at least a menu option when I right click a party member to join their Instance. Any MMO with split-zone functionality has this option, because it's a pain in the butt otherwise. As it is, I'm pretty much always playing with my husband and we can't teleport anywhere or risk getting put in a different instance.

I'm not sure how this made it to live without one, but please add some way to manually join another's instance!

[storm]

Can we please get an option to manually change our Instance channel in zones? Or at least a menu option when I right click a party member to join their Instance. Any MMO with split-zone functionality has this option, because it's a pain in the butt otherwise. As it is, I'm pretty much always playing with my husband and we can't teleport anywhere or risk getting put in a different instance.

I'm not sure how this made it to live without one, but please add some way to manually join another's instance!

I'd suggest it made it to live without one, because they refuse to have public test realms.

[Naunet]

Ugh and we log out for dinner in Ala Ghanna, come back to separate instances... in order to continue questing, we've got to all the way back to Rhalgr's Reach, manually run out, and then run back to our questing area (which of course means we lose our Twist of Fate buff, too). This is so ridiculous. @_@

[Evergrey]

This is temporary, just like how it was during HW release.

[Naunet]

This is temporary, just like how it was during HW release.

Doesn't mean it's not horrendously inconvenient and shouldn't have come with full functionality.

[Taggerung5]

Uh, dude. You can. WALK into said zone from a zone line next to it. Do not teleport. Then you can choose which instance to enter.

[Naunet]

Yes, I realize that. But you can't teleport anywhere once you're in that zone. If you get disconnected or log off and log back in, then you also often end up in separate instances - which necessitates hauling but across to a zone line, zoning back in, and then running all the way back to your questing area. It's absurd.

"Right click--> Join party member's instance" should not be that hard.

[seraseth]

Yes, I realize that. But you can't teleport anywhere once you're in that zone. If you get disconnected or log off and log back in, then you also often end up in separate instances - which necessitates hauling but across to a zone line, zoning back in, and then running all the way back to your questing area. It's absurd.

Once you're in the same zone you can use the teleport within the zone safely. Me and my partner would walk across the boundary line to end up in the same zone, then use the teleport within the zone to cross faster.

[Vaer]

Same thing happened in HW. I play with my girlfriend and it's annoying having to go to the previous zone and walk through the zoneline to switch it to the right one if instance roulette puts us in different copies which is like most of the time. Once I'm in the right copy I can just use a teleport within the zone to cover more area faster. Zones that require using NPCs to enter or leave, you also can't choose the instance copy either which makes it even more annoying.

I'd rather it just keep players in parties together when zoning and move them to the lowest populated map of the three. If all the maps are full, default to the current behavior.

[Evergrey]

Doesn't mean it's not horrendously inconvenient and shouldn't have come with full functionality.

Why would they put the time, money and effort in making a feature that would not stay for a long time?
Like you mentioned, other games with different districts have a manual feature where you can switch, but those games are built with that in mind.

I know that it's inconvenient but we won't have to suffer for long. Endure it.