Guild Wars 2

Ok, so I’ve reached the limit of my patience when it comes to trying to rez/help downed/defeated players.

I’m tired of having them waypoint out while I’m in the middle of doing so. I’m tired of watching them stand there like zombies because they were AFK and will only be slaughtered again in a minute or two. I’m tired of wasting my time.

So, I make this suggestion: add an option that when a player gets downed or defeated (especially the latter) that they can click while they are downed/defeated, not as a default toggle. This would change the usual blue downed/defated icon to something with a distinctive color, halo, ping display, entirely different icon, or what have you that will immediately tell anyone that can see it on the map, “That guy needs help!”

Making this something that is selected as soon as they are downed/defeated removes the issue of people setting a toggle that will always show them as wanting to be rezzed when they’re AFK, etc. They must do it at the right time or their icon will remain normal and those who would rather not waste their time will know immediately the player is AFK or otherwise not interested in being rezzed. And those that, by habit, will try to rush over and help, won’t be wasting their time (and sometimes risking their own selves) to help someone that neither wants it or, in some cases, deserves it.

As someone who has, up until now, always gone out of his way to help downed/defeated players, unless I see someone dropping during an active fight, I will no longer bother (unless the player somehow asks for help) until something like this is implemented. So there! ;-)

I have posted something Before about being ressed… Long time ago.

U’r suggestion is great! I like it… it could be combined with mine though to make it even better.

When u have seen someone who needs to be rezzed (u’r system could be used), u klick their Icon on the map to signal to that person that “I have seen u”. That person will know by sound or some Visual signal on his/her screen that someone have spotted them and have the intention to rezz them.

How about they just give the person reviving them the XP even after the dead person waypoints or logs out? And you not reviving people now unless they say help seems pretty kitteny…

I ress all ppl I come acros but it’s kind of annoying when he/she ports when I half way done. And then we have this AFK phenomenon….

For me its not about XP since I have over 600 spare skill Points… Its simply about being able to be helpful.

It’s not about the XP.
It’s about me risking being downed myself to rez them only to have them
A: Stand there A.F.K. and just go right back down again
B: WP out in the middle of me trying to help them, even though I know their map shows “A Noble Soul Is Trying To Rescue You!”
or
C: In the case of Ele’s they will Mist Form away from me in the middle of a rez.
In all of the above cases- I have ended up in either serious harm’s way myself, or dead and needing rezzed or WPing because they were the only ones there (and were A.kitteng it)!
So yes, I’m all for a ‘Distress Beacon Button’

Dommmmmmmmmm.6984:

How about they just give the person reviving them the XP even after the dead person waypoints or logs out? And you not reviving people now unless they say help seems pretty kitteny…

Then if you see some1 you don’t feel like reviving you just tap them and walk away, free exp.