Quote Originally Posted by Rilifane View Post
Nonetheless you shouldn't be denied entering at all.
Although you lower the number of possible chests and can't roll on loot yourself, you are still allowed to register and go in again, regardless of which fights you have already cleared for the week. I had it pop up sometimes aswell and a few tries later it worked fine again, so I think it might be a bug.
It's not a bug, in certain cases.

When queueing for savage fights, you have multiple options to queue with. One of them is known as 'duty completion' or something to that effect, which can be toggled to check if everyone in the party has the fight uncleared, which will give the error message and let the party leader know if someone already has the fight cleared so you don't zone in by accident & clear the fight only to discover someone had already cleared it and the 2 chest you wanted was ruined. You can still go in if the party leader unchecks the 'duty completion' toggle though. But in OP's case, its likely the party was wanting 2-chest, meaning the error message was 100% intentional due to the party leader toggling the option.

But yes OP, the system is designed that fight progression is linear each week. The act of even entering later fights means you forfeit all rewards from earlier fights and flag them as cleared for the week, so do not enter a later fight of the tier unless you are ready to give up loot from earlier ones.