Guild Wars 2

Hey all, is this a viable option for making the world vs. world queues a bit less annoying: we allow people who are in queue to watch their server’s players on the map, follow around with a random character or a famous one. I think some people will even enjoy spectating without the need to go in WvW theirselves, sort of to check if it’s worth going.

As for answerring possible ‘exploit’ commentaries: this will not have any advantages for the actual WvW players, cause people in spectator’s mode cannot whisper to anyone who is in WvW. This way there’s no pointing out where the enemy is.
Also, what about letting commanders track a few players who will function as scouts for him and allow him to watch their characters if he clicks their names in the ‘scout menu’?

Just some suggestions.

I like where you’re going

Two things – the server queues are there because the server can’t handle too many connections at once, so the spectator mode won’t happen, and two, even if the spectators couldn’t contact the people in WvW directly, there’s still a number of ways they could contact them, included, but not limited to, guild chat, party chat, whispering to someone not in WvW who whispers to someone in WvW, and of course telling everything after getting on the map.

If you were forced to follow a player in WvW, I wouldn’t see the problem besides connection issues as Tuomir pointed out.