Guild Wars 2

I didn’t see anyone else on the forums(if someone did it should have gotten more attention IMO) mention that on the map and mini-map you can click on the objectives to see the time remaining till upgrades and it also looked like you can control claiming of objectives from a far and what guild buffs you are providing to an objective. You can even do this for the enemy objectives which can be really useful when planning to assault an objective to see what upgrades you will have go against. Please watch this video of my initial finding of this feature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYUpJe8uFD8

wvwintel.com used to show all that stuff very accurately.

While wvwintel does show some things, this new feature does not require a player a player have open another program and also appears to have interactable features such as claiming or unclaiming objectives within the game without having to be at them and selected what upgrades your guild will be providing with the claim. The new feature also shows the exact time remaining for upgrades to be completed, albeit something websites cant do at the moment because we do not have the automatic upgrade system yet.

pretty sure claiming enemy objective etc is a bug, as for the rest of it, i dont think its a good idea. there are excellent reasons why the current claiming limitations were put into place and those reasons still hold valid.

if they retain the limitations just make it so you can activate it from afar, its good, otherwise it is bad.

You couldn’t do any claiming during the test as far as i could tell as it gave you no privileges in your guilds, the interface just contained a tab for guild buffs and check boxes and things that again could not be interacted with. If you watch the video you would see all that. As far as claiming goes they already described how that would work back in this new post:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/guild-objective-claiming-in-world-vs-world/
“When claiming objectives, the guild with the most members present when an objective is captured has first priority. If that guild passes, then the next guild down the priority chain has the opportunity to claim it. After three passes, any guild may claim the objective. A guild member with permission to claim objectives needs to be present to make the claim and slot the upgrades. "

On the 2nd tab there will be a list of guild buffs you can have for the objective. http://i.imgur.com/iHl5HEJ.jpg