I voted yes but I'd like to see that it applies only to those filling in on a random queue. I'd hate to see it exploited.

"Hey when you get to the last boss I'm going to switch to my ______ so they can complete the daily." <-- not okay

The current pledge quest system is wonky, and I hate it.

Whether or not you completed the optional objectives is calculated at the moment all the primary objectives are completed.

Example 1: Normal Darkshade caverns. There's an optional objective required for the silver key--the Cutting Sphere--that requires a slight detour before killing the final main boss. If you forget about this objective and kill the final main boss first, you will only get a bronze key even if you immediately go kill the Cutting Sphere afterwards. Your key quality is locked in the moment you kill the final main objective, and in the game's view, you've "failed" it.

Example 2: I queue for Arx as a healer, and I get placed in a group that's stuck on the final boss. I feel bad about abandoning this group, especially since they're just at the final boss, so instead of abandoning the group, I help them kill the boss. I requeue for Arx, get into a fresh group, and do a complete run of the dungeon. Only to get a bronze key when I turn in the pledge. What happened? Since I had helped the group kill the final boss, that boss was checked off as completed on my pledge quest tracker. During my run with the fresh new group, the pledge quest "completed" the moment I killed the penultimate main boss, since the final main boss had already been checked off. But then the optional silver key bosses between the penultimate and final main bosses aren't counted since I killed them after the pledge had been "completed". In other words, because I was a good Samaritan and because I didn't abandon and restart the pledge quest, I got screwed on the key color (in a dungeon where it's otherwise impossible to get a bronze key since every "optional" boss is unavoidable).

Either progress should reset to zero entirely, or full progress up to that point be granted. But the current system just messes people up. (I'm leaning towards reset, actually, because there are dungeons (nCoH and nWS, notably), where you can deliberately skip some bosses.)

I vote yes, first time using group finder today and 3 attempts I get put into a group that's stuck on the last boss, iv been lucky and was told that if im wanting it for gold key to rather abandon pledge or leave group, but its so hard to get a group together either via group finder or guildies that you end up rather saying sod it bronze key will do or sitting hours waiting for group finder so yes definitely