Guild Wars 2

A system that notifies all players in a given region that a BOSS is up, and ready to be battled against. For example, the Troll or Shadow Behemoth in Queensdale, or the Bandit Captain in Kessex Hills, or the Bloodwitkittenessex Hills.

The truth is, many times one will stumble upon a great encounter, but nobody is around to help, or players who don’t know that encounter will simply ignore map chat calling players to assist. The notification system can highlight the awesome encounter.

It’s a no-brainer! We’re all clamouring to the bossess all the time, this will make the game more fun, because now we will all rally together!

Using map chat for this purpose is ineffective and often people miss great opportunities. Using a new notification system for bosses will allow players to play together more often.

In Summary:
- Idea: Region Specific Notification System of Boss Spawns
- Purpose: To negate the need to use Map Chat to attempt to rally allies, and to encourage larger group participation constantly, which is much more fun.
- Suggestion: The system only notifies the player of spawns of already encountered bosses

You mean like /map chat?

And then every player and their mother comes, and the event turns into a slideshow because of the lag.

A new notification system would only allow people to play alongside a bunch of other people. Without mechanics that require people to work together (therefore playing together), that’s all these bosses are: loot piniata’s.

As above guy said. Map chat is sufficient, because it only draws people in the map.

What would be more sensible would be to separate the normal event and world event trackers. That way, while exploring a map, the world event tracker would be omnipresent and informing you of world event status, while the normal event tracker would only report the events in your immediate vicinity.

You mean like the notification in the top right that tells you the status of world events in a region? Yup….

It doesn’t always relate the current world event Ethics.
For example, if you exit Divinity’s Reach, it will not immediately report ’The swamp lies dormant" until you get within a certain range of the event staging area.
My proposal is to have that message displayed wherever you are in the map whilst having a separate tracker for events nearer to you.

People are always trying to one-up people here without thinking through their wisecracks.

Sorry, but no. If someone is interested in the thing they will make the effort to check up on it. If they miss it then that’s too bad, it isn’t going to ruin their whole day. If it is going to ruin their whole day they had entirely separate issues that don’t need to be addressed here. I don’t need a pop up or any other kind of alert telling me about things just because I happen to be in the same zone as them. Getting an alert when within range is sufficent.

The system works just fine as it is.

lol…they already have this feature…look for an orange bar on your screen…says what events are going on in the area.

Also don’t forget to check your map look for giant orange circles, and skulls, and x’s and arrows.

On top of all this there are sites that tell you when major events are going down.

I’ve made some changes based on feedback to the initial post. It would be great if a dev popped in and gave their thoughts.