Guild Wars 2

I believe this the update for this dragon is perfect; I say leave it this way until people figure it out. I’d rather some world bosses—especially dragons—not be push overs. One way—or the other, 65% of people playing will catch on and learn and cooperate if they want that loot. Servers have to come together and discuss strategy and even first timers asks what they should and can do. Eventually, everyone will be in unity. Sooner or later we’ll all be on the same page, no worries.

If the expectation from Anet is that we have a highly coordinated effort required to beat this boss (or any other) coming from 80+ people, would it not make sense for them to give us some better way of communicating than MAP CHAT? Even GW1 had alliance chat which could help serve to organize and communicate in groups… GW2 has no real means of achieving that level of coordination.

You gotta remember alliance chat also was between at most 10 guilds. Now granted plenty of players are in the larger guilds it still won’t mean that they’ll see it either because they may be repping another guild or something.

Alliance chat (a technology from 2006) could be used for up to 1000 players, while also having subset chats of the individual guild chats and party chat (also whisper if needed). That made communication quite a bit more efficient than the current incarnation. An alliance could assign each guild a task easily, the guilds themselves could then chat amongst themselves to accomplish the goal while easily switching the chat channel to discuss things with the entire alliance. Years later, not only has Anet not improved on that system, they have actually gone backwards in the chat design.