Guild Wars 2

For how important events are to the game, they can often be hard to find while they’re active, mostly because most events you cannot see from more than about thirty seconds to a minute jog away, sometimes much less than that. This is the case even for events that can last for ten minutes or more, or that players could use Waypoints to get to if they wanted to.

With the Wintersday content, you can see active presents anywhere on the map you’re on, even in areas you haven’t cleared yet. This is great! I see a little peppermint on the map and head off towards it, I know there will be something to do when I get there.

I’d like to see this expanded to all, or at least most dynamic events. Make it so that if an event is happening anywhere on the map you’re on, you can see it on your minimap, even if it’s entirely across the map from where you are.

Ideally this could even extend across the world for the bigger, longer events, so that even if you were in Lion’s Arch you could see that a major event chain was starting in Queensdale or Fields of Ruin, and rush off to it. Getting these details might of course require zooming in on that section of the map or something.

But even if the latter request is impossible, I really think that the main request of map-wide event notifications is practically necessary, especially given how diffuse player populations have become, and how it can often be difficult to get even 2-3 players together to run events that were clearly intended for 5+.