Guild Wars 2

Although guesting is fairly easy there are a few issues that could be solved with some simple UI improvements. One problem being if you are guesting and want to switch characters you need to find the server on the shifting list and reguest to it. This isn’t normally a problem but if you have some friends on a different server that you PvE with and then WvW with people on your home server you don’t really want to have to choose the guesting option every time you need to switch characters for something.

I was thinking that to make guesting easier/more visible and available for people to quickly choose what world they are logging into; a small window could be added to the top left of the character selection screen with three lines on. The top line being your home world name and the next 2 being your guesting pass lines. If you aren’t guesting anywhere then something like a ‘choose server’ button would show up that when clicked gives you the server list window to choose from. Then once you’ve chosen that server its name occupies that line and all you have to do is click it, highlighting the line, before character selection and when you’re done guesting you just select the top line, your home world when you want to stop guesting instead of having it switch you back to your home world every time you go back to character select.

It’s very silly to me that I do it from the character selection screen.

Here’s how I envisioned guesting working before it was implemented:

1) Friend from another server invites you to their party

2) You both go to the same zone

3) You right click on them and the option “Join on <server name>” appears, same as the option for joining people in Overflow.

Since there’s a finite limit on the amount of servers you can guest on, I would expand this to have a popup that warns you that you can only mark two servers as guesting servers per day, and whether you’ve already used up your first one.