Guild Wars 2

So, the other day, I wanted to play in Crucible of Eternity, so I open gw2lfg.com and get a party in under five minutes. Nice, I have a full party. Now let’s start the dungeon.

Oh wait, the dungeon is contested on my map. Whatever, I ask if anyone has the dungeon available on his server, in total, we’re five people from four servers. No. So we’re stuck. We can’t go and play in the dungeon.

Oh wait, we have the guesting mechanism. So everyone go guest and check if we can go in a server. Myself, I know that two servers are really active in unlocking temples and dungeons, and a guy from one of those server is in my party, so I take an educated guess and I go guest on the other server. Bang, it’s open. We get in and play.

At no point in time, one of us said “let’s guest together on the same server so we can unlock the dungeon”.

Lessons learned:
- gw2lfg is good but having people from different servers is a problem for unlocking dungeons.
- Guesting is useful to solve that
- Guesting is misused, as people are going to check on other servers if a dungeon is unlocked; they are unlikely guesting to unlock it.
- Unlocking on some servers will likely happen much less than previously.

Before the guesting mechanism, CoE on my server was either open or being opened 2/3 of the time I wanted to get there. Now, it never is.

Guesting is great, just provide us with more tools to cope with it.

http://gw2eventstate.com/coe

this site shows you which servers are open for CoE, as well as all other world events. just check this and guest onto that server.

Or you can do the pre events to unluck the dungeon/temple

backsnap.1937:

http://gw2eventstate.com/coe

this site shows you which servers are open for CoE, as well as all other world events. just check this and guest onto that server.

That was exactly the point the poster was making. Instead of people opening the dungeon on their own server (or, say, getting a group from gw2lfg and getting together to open it on X server) people just guest to where its already opened. As a result, less servers in general ever have them open because everyone just guests to someplace thakittens already done.

Could be solved with adding new function to party UI: “Guest to party member” . Even if it not will be faster than current ways, players will choose it because of convenience. No necessity to quitting for character select screen or opening web browser.