Guild Wars 2

Such a simply convenience has been left out of guild wars 2 for reasons such as afk karma farming. Now this would be a concern at a PvE level due to the nature of dynamic events but from a WvW point of view, this could be revolutionising.

Being able to follow an individual can dramatically improve organisation, at least from a guilds point of view. No longer would stragglers alert enemies of a massive horde. Furthermore, it could serve as means of determining which “zerg” was more organised in an open field combat scenario. It would employ evolved tactics, furthering the currently stale meta-game.

Here is a link to a video that shows some of the possibilities of new employable tactic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6sgp3jnilw . Dont be fooled by the juvenile appearance of the game. Alot is happening behind the fight that is unclear to the layman but obvious to the experienced. This “metagame” has kept the warring community of RS alive for 10+ years.

In my opinion this would be a significant gift arena net could give to the WvW community that would be perfect with the upcoming WvW updates. It would fly under the radar initially but after a couple of weeks WvW’ers will be unable to live without it.

At the very least, consider this as an option for following commanders. It will be a feature that can would make commander icons worth while.

- Commander Ronique

Revisiting this idea with some updates from feedback via guild mates and others (thanks)

- The follow functionality is limited to following Commanders
- One will not be able to auto complete dynamic quests whilst “following” and thus must actively participate in the event to acquire karma etc (thanks guildmates and Catisa)

Suggestions can improve this idea so that it isnt gamebreaking

so you want to dumb it down to increase organization? Sorry terrible idea. Besides it would be so abused by people dragging a friend/second account with them all day to every capping circle and getting free xp, karma and coins.

I respect your opinion and understand how you feel it may “dumb-down” the game play, though that reasoning is subjective. Objectively speaking though, there are things such as an auto kick which boots out players who just afk.

From a subjective perspective, the tactical possibilities outweigh the con you mentioned. For example, a zerg following a commander is protected due to the multi hit limit (Turtling). This forces the opponent to focus fire individuals in the pile through the aim target functionality. This would revolutionise open field combat. It would therefore not dumb down combat but force commanders to use their brains and choose appropriate targets in the opponents zerg .

I fail to see how a follow feature would be abusive in PVE… presence alone does not factor into participation in an event. You have to actively participate to get credit, sitting on Follow with someone who is participating won’t give you any credit let alone reward.

That said… I will only support a Follow function if it is applied to PVE as well. It is more usefull to a PVE player following an impatient friend while they sort inventory or deal with traits and skill points.

In PVP it doesn’t serve a very practical purpose, unless you can follow an enemy target it’s mostly useless in PVP… Oh sure follow someone in the zerg so you can AFK the rush… yea… very tactical… Follow a target that keeps evading everything that on the other hand is useful… however… Stealth, Teleport, and excessive distance should break follow.