Dungeons

These are instances that a squad can enter. An "instance" is an area that only exists for players in your squad. This allows multiple squads to complete quests in a particular dungeon without interfering with each other. Typically you will have quests send you inside, but (as long as you meet the entry requirements) you can return as often as you wish.

Dungeon List

The dungeons which you get given regularly (every ten levels, starting at 19 - with an exception that 49 is pushed back to 51) are informally called "FBs" by the players (which comes from an abbreviation of "FuBen", the Pinyin transcription of "副本", which is Chinese basically meaning "instance" here), although the quests that send you there are called "Call to Duty" (the items for which, players call "tabs"). In higher level dungeons players often use wines to reduce the amount of enemies.

• FB19
  • Elf: Cave of the Vicious
  • Human: Firecrag Grotto
  • Untamed: Den of Rabid Wolves
  • Tideborn: Caves of Menaces (not an actual FB)
• Secret Passage (not instanced)
• FB29: Hall of Deception
• FB39: Gate of Delirium
• FB51: Secret Frostcover Grounds (sometimes called FB49)
• FB59: Valley of Disaster
• FB69: Wraithgate
• FB79: Hallucinatory Trench
• FB89: Eden / Brimstone Pit
• FB99: Seat of Torment / Abaddon
• Twilight Temple (often abbreviated TT or HH)
• Valley of Reciprocity (where Rebirth Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta take place)
• City of Abominations
• Forgotten Frostland
• Chrono Gate (not instanced)
• Warsong City
• Cave of Sadistic Glee (not instanced)
• Palace of Nirvana

Instance Holding and Timers

When you enter an instance, the leader of the squad becomes the "holder" of the instance. If that player passes squad leadership to any other member of the squad, then that new leader becomes the instance holder.

When you are in an instance and you leave the squad, anyone but the instance holder will get a 60 second timer which will teleport you out of the instance. This means that the last person to leave a squad who has leadership will not get a timer because they are "holding" the instance.

If someone has a timer, the person holding the instance can reinvite them to the squad in order to cancel the timer. This is normally useful if someone disconnects ("DCs") while playing, and then reconnects. If you reinvite them to the squad within 60 seconds of reconnecting then they won't be teleported out of the instance. A player with a timer (meaning they are not in a squad holding the instance) can relog to reset the timer back to 60 seconds. By doing this you can remain in an instance you do not "belong" in indefinitely.

Dead players will not have a timer even if they are not in the instance-holding squad. If the true instance holder logs out, it is possible for a dead player to be in an instance that they do not own and that noone else on the server possesses. This means even if the dead player invites a cleric to their squad to revive them, that cleric will not be able to enter the same instance as the dead player since the dead player cannot invite someone into an instance they do not own. The dead player has no choice but to go town to leave the instance.

If someone in an instance who isn't in a squad doesn't have a timer, anyone else can invite them to a squad and joining that squad that will start their 60 second timer (this works even if they're both still in the same instance). If the invitee then leaves the squad before the 60 seconds is up, that will cancel the timer unless the person who invited them passes them leadership first. So, if you get stuck in an instance with no timer, you can get a friend or faction member to invite you to a squad so you get a timer, and then they can pass you leadership and then quit the squad so they don't have to wait around for you to exit first. This saves you the one hour cooldown time on using a Town Teleport to exit the instance or the time it would take you to run back to the entrance.

This also allows you to "reset" dungeons. For example, if you finish a Twilight Temple solo run and then want to do another, normally you would have to wait a few hours until the instance resets. Instead, you can have someone else invite you to a squad, pass you lead, and then you can boot them, which will clear out the instance you were holding, resetting the dungeon so you can do another run right away.

Finally, when your squad is done with a dungeon, if you want to be nice, you can wait until you're the second to last person to leave the squad, then pass leadership to the other squad member (if they don't have it already), quit the squad, and then invite that other member to squad with you so that everyone will have a timer. ...Or you could just ask if anyone needs a timer at the end, and invite anyone who says "yes".

If the instance holder is the last member of a squad they will remain possession of instance for some time even if they log out and log back in or leave the instance. If the instance holder joins another squad but later leaves that squad (without inheriting a new instance from that squad) it is still possible that they retain possession the original instance even if they are no longer inside that instance.