Three times in the last three weeks I have been put into a Veteran dungeon while queueing for a Normal.

It wasn't even a Random: I queued for a specific Normal dungeon, and was put in the Veteran version of that dungeon. So it doesn't just happen on Randoms.

In each case I checked my Dungeon Finder settings before, during AND after the dungeon: it remained resolutely on Normal each time.

Now, I am a level 50 character with over 400 CPs, so I was able to handle the veteran dungeon... but some of my team mates were similarly caught, and were not.

One thing I have noticed is that it is never the group *leader* who is caught by surprise this way: the leader always seems to be aware it's a Veteran dungeon. However, all three of the other players (myself as tank, and two DDs - the healer was assigned the captaincy) in the team in my recent run of "City of Ash II" believed it was Normal. We ended up having to abort the run.

In fact, back in August, my first ever Veteran dungeon run was intended to be a Normal, and I was thrown into a Veteran run after queueing for a Normal. It was Wayrest 1, and I literally did not know it was Veteran until I got to the end and was awarded an Undaunted Bust instead of an Undaunted Trophy collectible - I had only just hit level 50 at the time. The same has since happened to me more recently in Imperial City Prison, City of Ash I (both of which I completed with difficulty) and City of Ash II (which was aborted when the team couldn't kill Urata the Legion and her ever-respawning clones). In each case, more than one player in the same run was convinced it was a Normal.

Look, I told you.

IT. IS. PUTTING. PEOPLE. IN. ACTUAL. VET. DUNGEONS. WHEN. THEY. QUEUED. FOR. NORMAL.

I have the Undaunted busts for Wayrest Sewers 1, Imperial City Prison and City of Ash 1 to prove it.

In all three cases I queued for Normal.

In all three cases I was not the only person who thought it was a normal.

In the case of Imp City Prison, I found out halfway through when the group leader said.

In the other two cases I genuinely believed it was a Normal right up until I got the Undaunted Bust from the final boss.

And by the way... As a final kicker, the Scroll of Glorious Battle (or its equivalent) was actually available (and was used) when we reached the final boss. It is not present in Normal. This is final and absolute proof that it was a genuine, honest to goodness, bona-fide Veteran dungeon that we all got put into, when three of us had been queueing for a Normal.

Forgot to mention:

I read through the thread that was shared above and from the looks of my clip and my memory of the situation it seems as though there is some accuracy to what they are saying. I will add though that I don't think it's solely the fault of the group leader. I do believe there might be a problem with having other level 50 characters that then provide your under level 50's with CP. Unless someone can report to having this bug on an account with no level 50's and/or CP then I think it involves both sides of the grouping. As far as I have read in these threads everyone that has had the problem have had other level 50's.

There is a similar thread on here about this. If you look in the group settings page (console here) there is a dungeon difficulty setting, normal or vet. I don’t know if that has been here all along and only recently implemented, or was added recently.

I don’t know why it is there. We queue for normal or vet dungeon in the group finder. It sounds like this group setting might be causing interference if the person who gets picked as leader has their group setting set to “vet” but queues for a normal dungeon.