Guild Wars 2

I really think there should be some kind of world chat system where people can organize together across maps. I played Rift for awhile and what they did worked pretty well. They essentially had chat channels that would unlock the higher level you got. It unlocked so that, for instance, level 1 people could not talk in the level 50 chat but people in the level 50 chat could still talk to the level 1 people if they have that low level chat channel open.

For this game you could have something like a chat channel for 1-19, 20-39, 40-59, 60-79, 80. This could, in particular, help people organize meta events in Orr and dragon events which would increase the overall supply of precursors without actually having to change anything at all.

The problem with having an all-encompassing general chat is that of course gold sellers love that. With restrictions on levels, however, I found that gold sellers never got high enough level to really utilize it at all.

You might say that people will just spam channels with dungeon requests. However I think if a dungeon LFG system was implemented it would curtail that.

Yeah the level dependant chat channels in Rift were very good i agree, would love something like that. As for gold sellers, spamming chat even in LA is very low currently so shouldn’t be a big problem i think

Downscaling makes this less than ideal.

I wnat to run AC on my 34 Elementalist, so I fire up the chat for that level range to find a group.

My 80 guardian wants to do the same, so I need to look in all the channels from 30-80.

It is easier to either go to the dungeon or Lion’s Arch to find a group. 80s would face the spam of everybody’s level-range chatter, everywhere. Or, if they are excluded from it, can’t find groups with lower-level players.

bad idea leveling is simple and quick enough you dont need to artifically divide the community by level. esspecially since everyone is the same level once the get to a certain zone unless theyre far under its req.

poe lyfe.5879:

bad idea leveling is simple and quick enough you dont need to artifically divide the community by level. esspecially since everyone is the same level once the get to a certain zone unless theyre far under its req.

True. A level chat would only be feasible for Lions Arch, and even there one would still need a global chat.

Fildydarie.1496:

Downscaling makes this less than ideal.

I wnat to run AC on my 34 Elementalist, so I fire up the chat for that level range to find a group.

My 80 guardian wants to do the same, so I need to look in all the channels from 30-80.

It is easier to either go to the dungeon or Lion’s Arch to find a group. 80s would face the spam of everybody’s level-range chatter, everywhere. Or, if they are excluded from it, can’t find groups with lower-level players.

Well dungeon groups should be in a LFG tool rather than chat tbh, but that is a whole other topic, also you should be able to freely choose if you want to join or leave a chat channel that is same or lower than your level

poe lyfe.5879:

bad idea leveling is simple and quick enough you dont need to artifically divide the community by level. esspecially since everyone is the same level once the get to a certain zone unless theyre far under its req.

ehmm there is at least a 2-3 zones for same lvl range, and then add that you can be in town, or in a area that is lower level than you and this system would unify more than divide