Guild Wars 2

Could we please get server announcements when the dragons are up like what happens with Scarlet? The timers are so frustrating – and not very accurate. Not to mention, I can never remember which dragon is where. It would make sense for their to be a “call for help” to everyone since the dragons are such an important part of the world. And might increase event participation too.

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The timers are not accurate ? … That’s what I call spoiled. There were times you had to wait an hour at the spawn locations and inform your mates while they waited at other spots.

You can’t remember the three spots in tyria where the dragon spawn ? … Just train a year or so and you’ll be able to remember. Or make a note on a printed world map.

@suggestion
I’d accept it for tequatl and tequatl only.

I think it would make sense just because we already have a notification about Scarlet’s invasions already, the lore of GW2 is placed around dragons, why should we be more scared of invasion of one villain, and call for help the whole world, but not for Tequatl, or Claw of Jormag?

Given the way Teq currently scales – I don’t think any timer/announcement would help.
Most people would just find this an annoyance and ignore them even with an announcement.
Teq is now pretty fixed timings / every 2 hours now for the spawn.

However I do support a commander being able to possibly send out one global home world server announcement (call to arms). This would have to have some major limit such as 1/day or something so people don’t feel spammed with these messages across the screen. Big events like this need organisation and good commanders who can organise, delegate and help teach individuals. This is much better than a dragon announcement.
For Teq people need to get there 1 hr before he spawns to sort out the organisation otherwise the event is likely to fail – it’s not an event you should turn up at the last moment and expect it to be a “win”.

Jormag generally works well on high population servers right now (I’m not sure how well it scales on lower population servers – the numbers may not be there and an announcement might not help).

The scarlet announcement is different as we don’t know where the spawn will appear at all and it does not require any major co-ordination to take part and is just a pew-pew kill fest.

The other thing that could possibly help is some form of guild alliances (with an alliance channel). This would allow you to call on a bigger set of resources of people that you know could be interested. 10 guilds x 500 = 5000 people to pull from.
One of those members could easily post a message in lions arch and let others know what is going on.

Alternatively ask around if there is a “world server” website that you can join to find out when people organise these events. I know that Aurora Glade, Jade Quarry and many other servers have a website dedicated for there worlds. I am sure there are many more.

You mean like how ppl go out and yell in map or guildchat when theres a world event? And once you get to a world event, theres usually ppl mentioning whats next (at least on my server).

The OP’s suggestion makes perfect sense. The reliance on API timers is all well and good, but there’s no reason why the world announcement system that tells where Scarlet is attacking couldn’t also announce the world events.

The problem is that I don’t want them all popping up in the middle of my screen all the time, so a toggle to just see the announcement in chat would be nice, too.