Overall, I love the new Dungeoneering skill. Yes, it’s really more of a minigame than a skill and is in that sense disappointing but I still think it’s fun. It definitely has some good rewards, too, and it’s nice how you get experience for other skills while training it.

Dungeoneering has one major and very frustrating problem, though – If you’re playing by yourself and you log out for whatever reason you can’t rejoin so you have to restart the dungeon all over again. This means that if you spend an hour Dungeoneering and then lag out (if you suffer from lag, see my guide 5 Ways to Stop Runescape Lag) or need to go away for more than five minutes you will lose all your progress. The worst thing is that, when you try to rejoin a solo party, Jagex mocks you by saying “You want to party with yourself?”

Just imagine the sort of terrible problems this error on Jagex’s part could cause. Say someone has been playing Dungeoneering for half an hour and is almost done with the level and then suddenly realizes that his neighbor’s house is on fire. He is now confronted with a difficult option – Should he get up and call the fire department so as to save the house and the people inside or keep Dungeoneering so he doesn’t lose his progress? After contemplating for a moment, he would make the obvious choice that I’m sure we all would make – he would keep Dungeoneering and let his neighbor’s house burn down. This is the type of thing that is going to happen if Jagex doesn’t fix this problem soon.

I do believe that Jagex will fix the problem but, until then, I am going to protest by not training the skill at all. Who’s with me?

EDIT: It has been affirmed here by Mod Emilee that Jagex intends to fix the problem.

“If I play solo and get disconnected, will I need to start the dungeon again?”

Unfortunately yes as dungeons have a habit of moving around when nobody is looking; you need to have a “party” in the dungeon in order to rejoin it.

It is worth noting, if you had progressed through at least 50% of the dungeon, you may get some experience reimbursed to you (but it will be considerably less than if you actually finished the dungeon).

Please note – we are working with our Game Engine Team to try to resolve this issue, but it wasn’t something we could achieve for launch and wasn’t a big enough issue to delay the whole launch or indeed withhold the ability to solo a dungeon.

Edit 08 August: Jagex has now made it so you can log out for 10 minutes and then come back unless your computer is shut down in that time. This is definitely an improvement and heading in the right direction but I hope the time amount gets extended if possible.

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