Guild Wars 2

Many zones have meta-event chains with concise information about dynamic events all over the zone displayed on every player’s screen, so they can know when they’re needed to go help out with a big assault or defense. Why not add something similar for WvW, a dynamic event which is accessible from every zone, affects the entire world, and often needs a little extra support from players who don’t happen to be checking the WvW pane at the moment?

Simplest notification would show a bar in the corner with % WvW holdings (by points rewarded).

Slightly more detail would include a blurb with the status of StoneMist and the three Orbs.

Expanding the notification could show bars with % holdings for each of each of the borderlands.

Serious detail could have indicators for the number of capture points currently being assaulted or defended by our world, or even a population count for each borderland.

Simple notifications like these would allow players all across the world to be quickly aware when they are most needed in WvW, without having to teleport to Lion’s Arch and yell in mapchat, or get a guild member online in WvW to scout, or even just opening the WvW pane every 10 minutes to see whether it’s changed, all of which are very active habits that must be maintained, as opposed to everything else in the game’s PvE which players can passively absorb and react to.

To clarify, I’m not suggesting any changes be made to the notifications currently in place in WvW. The way the map and event system functions in WvW itself is close to perfect. I’m only suggesting passive WvW status notifications be added for players in PvE and possibly PvP.