Guild Wars 2

What is the point in having a yes/no option to allow somebody to join your party if you can’t see their class or level?

My suggestion is to let people see info on mouseover of the player portrait (same like when they join party) so the party can decide if they want this class/level to join their party or not.

this is common sense to me but I don’t know about the rest of you.

Since people can invite themselves to your party, the point is to allow you to refuse unsolicited joins. As for the suggestion itself, I won’t comment.

Vashoom.8512:

What is the point in having a yes/no option to allow somebody to join your party if you can’t see their class or level?

My suggestion is to let people see info on mouseover of the player portrait (same like when they join party) so the party can decide if they want this class/level to join their party or not.

this is common sense to me but I don’t know about the rest of you.

This is something I would like to see implemented as well. I think the primary argument against having a system like this is that it might promote further discrimination against some classes for dungeon/fotm runs, but in all honesty, this is something that is happening anyway. Just as it sits right now, people are getting invited to the party, then kicked, as opposed to this system where they would not even get in the party.

Well, discrimination against classes etc is going to happen regardless, until the game is 100% perfectly balanced to the point we are all sat on a needle point together, you can’t avoid it.

And in all fairness, if i ask for a guardian and a ranger pops into my group, the first thing i ask is “are you switching over?” and if the response is no, he clearly took a ballsy move that will inevitably end with him being kicked.

The argument against this option is non existent imo. It won’t promote discrimination, as the player base that does this will continue to do so, the ones that don’t will not.

As you all say, there will always be discrimination against certain classes/levels, it’s less offensive to a player if they are not invited to a party, rather than being voted out and being kicked by the entire group.

Also, more than 4 other players can request to join your party at any time, but when the group is full (and you need to start kicking people, if you want to) people can no longer queue to join the group, as they will get the “group is full” message.

So it would have 3 benefits;
1.) players deciding what class combination they want
2.) less offensive to unwanted players
3.) allow players to queue to groups that appear full, but not confirmed yet