Guild Wars 2

Well done on the ingame LFG tool.

However, since dragonite is a required ingredient for ascended weapons, how about some sort of ingame method to know when bosses are about to kick off as well?

I haven’t used timers in a while but I have been using some API fed event trackers, and they do a great job of letting me know when a thing is happenning so I can get over there in a way that doesn’t feel like wanton metagaming.

Obviously, people were never intended to figure out the timers and wait in line. They were supposed to be milling about the zone and be notified of the nearby boss event.

Today, we need to do a LOT of boss events for dragonite, and I feel that unlike the other parts of ascended crafting which can be easily “stumbled in to” it is absolutely possible for a player on the path to ascended weapons to never have personally witnessed a world boss event, or even have any idea where dragonite comes from. Without the help of external sources or other players, I would have assumed it was a rare ore I needed to mine, as all other ore is a mined material.

So, you’ve got these NPCs with some VO lines that were SUPPOSED to clue people in about the living story. Then you decided the LS would just be handled via screen notifications and ingame mail… but the heralds remain with no useful information.

How about having the heralds bark their same VO, but when interacted with they can point players to any currently running world boss pre-events? This would be akin to the way event barking NPCs already work, but in a macro-world sense. As a prestige option, perhaps even add an ingame piece of mail from the player’s herald at 80 notifying them of the function of these heralds and giving them a clue as to the rare mineral they can acquire.

From there players would be able to piece together the purpose of the dragonite from ingame sources and recipies, and the whole system would feel a lot more coherant.

Also, the heralds wouldn’t be unemployed any more.