Guild Wars 2

I have a few criticisms of the in-game map…

(1) It seems unnecessary to restrict the size to which you can expand the minimap. For those of us playing on higher-resolution monitors, it would be great to be able to utilise this space more!

(2) Following this, I often find that labels for objects of interest such as waypoints and quest hearts diminish in size far too quickly when zooming the map out. Ditto with place names fading far too prematurely. I have to zoom in way too far to see the details that I want, yet the map would not be significantly more cluttered if we were allowed to adjust this “level of detail”.

(3) Some sort of tool to highlight “uncompleted” objects in a zone would be fantastic. Simple as clicking on a zone (placing a highlighted border around its boundaries), with a window popping up showing stats for that zone, and tools to highlight the location of completed and uncompleted items.

The artsy, painted look of Guild Wars 2 is usually great. Just not when it impinges on usability, and it’s frankly an awful experience when you want to find a very specific thing on the map. I honestly spent 10 minutes searching for the last point of interest in one zone, the icon was so faint against a dark brown background.

Please fix these things! I find myself opening the full-screen map far more often than should be necessary, and having to do a lot more zooming, panning, and squinting than I should to find the details I want.

Yeah they need to remove the limit on how big you can make it… Obviously none of the devs have a high res monitor. hell even on 1920×1080 its far to small on a 27 but go up to 2560×1440 and were talking squinting…

I don’t mind the minimap size limit too much, my only real issue with the minimap is like you mentioned with icons fading out too soon when zooming out and icons blending in with the map too often.

I play on a 19" 1920*1080 monitor with small ui setting.

all i got out of that was,
“I have a few criticisms of the in-game map”
" I honestly spent 10 minutes searching for the last point of interest in one zone"
umm man wow if your using the mini map to search for a missing poi you are beyond the scope of help we can give on this forum.

Dmorin.9543:

all i got out of that was,
“I have a few criticisms of the in-game map”
" I honestly spent 10 minutes searching for the last point of interest in one zone"
umm man wow if your using the mini map to search for a missing poi you are beyond the scope of help we can give on this forum.

No, that was using the main map. The undiscovered POI marker is absurdly inconspicuous.