Sewers central room portals - bugged or intended?

Magdalina

I know there was a bug when the portals were simply empty with no one to kill but this appears fixed now. However...I just tried to 2 man them with a friend and we were doing just fine, slowly but steadily killing everything...except the part where the portals reset faster than we were cleaning them. I have only done it a few times before and it was in big groups that took everything down incredibly fast so I'd like to know if it's bugged or intended?

We take the trash and boss down, portal goes down, then 5 minutes later it's up again AND the trash from it happily runs to us even though we're 50 meters away and not even looking at them. We were able to have 2 portals down at once but not 3. Is there a ridiculously short intended timer(why if so? Like everything in this game has 15 mins++ respawn mechanics, why would this be so different?) with a forced pull following it or is it just broken?

@ZOS or anyone familiar with the mechanics of the place? I'd really like to get a shot at 2 manning Molag Bal so this is frustrating :'(

Autolycus

I've been in a similar situation, both in duos and large groups. I've never once had the portals spawn too quickly. I suspect this is a matter of taking too long to complete, but I of course don't know what kinds of builds you guys are running or how you play.

Usually the issue I face is that one of the four portals is inactive when it should be active, or having one or two mobs from the portal getting stuck in a wall.

Magdalina

Autolycus wrote: »

I've been in a similar situation, both in duos and large groups. I've never once had the portals spawn too quickly. I suspect this is a matter of taking too long to complete, but I of course don't know what kinds of builds you guys are running or how you play.

Usually the issue I face is that one of the four portals is inactive when it should be active, or having one or two mobs from the portal getting stuck in a wall.

I'm a sorc mag dps and my friend's a templar who switched between dps and tanking between the fights. We don't exactly melt everything on sight but it seemed to me the portals were respawning within ~10 minutes frame which seems kind of ridiculous.
I'm also not sure why the respawn mobs instantly come after us. First time you do portals you can perfectly do them separately unless you're uncareful, but the respawned trash came straight after us from like 50m away WITHOUT being attacked first.

Enodoc

I remember on PTS the portals respawning pretty quickly, and at that time we assumed it was because the intention was to have enough players in the area to take them all down simultaneously. But if you've managed to clear them separately before, maybe there is a problem with the timer.