Guild Wars 2

In most games, a player selects a chat channel and that is the default channel their text enters, unless they change it to another channel or they use one of the channel short cuts such as /gu /p /say /team, etc.

In GW2, there is no default chat channel, so every time you type something into a channel, your default changes to that channel. For example, I might be talking to my group in /p by default when someone in the guild logs in and says hi. I’ll type /gu Hello, then go back to talking with my party, unfortunately, everything I type ends up going into /gu until I type /p again. Or even worse, whenever you whisper to someone, everything you type in after the first whisper ends up going to that person.

This can be very frustrating in WvW, when it’s necessary to coordinate across a lot of different channels, such as /gu /p /team /map /whisper /squad. If you want to stay on a default channel, for example /p, you would need to type /gu hello, or whatever, then /p <enter> after everything single chat message you type in game.

I agree with this. I have a separate tab for each channel and if I want to send text to a different tab, I use the appropriate slash command and then have to change it back. It should be a one shot deal.

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