Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 2 has many neat little features. Some of them that I particularly like:

- The pathing arrows that show where to go in the personal story. They’re really accurate too.
- Little arrows appear on resource nodes telling you if the resource is above or below your current level. That’s a really cool solution to finding where stuff is and you can often work out there’s a hidden cave when you see a resource with a down arrow.
- Your characters voice in combat telling you when you are low on health or have a condition. Means you don’t constantly need to be looking at your bars.
- You can drag the minimap, often making it unnecessary to open the full map.

What other things have you spotted?

• Alt-click to set a personal way point so when I get distracted, I can remember which way I meant to go
• Being able to toggle the exploration icons on and off on the map to find that last POI (I completely overlooked that little eye in the bottom left corner for the longest time)
• Shift-drag draws on the mini-map
• Being able to reduce your inventory UI by hiding the bag separations
• Being able to search in your inventory
• Some events have voice overs calling out where the next wave is coming from
• Being able to buy more of a crafting ingredient on the TP by right clicking
  …

Really I could go on and on, ANet’s attention to detail is really amazing.

Pandemoniac.4739:

• Alt-click to set a personal way point so when I get distracted, I can remember which way I meant to go

Great stuff! I’d missed that one – also works for party members when grouped, which is pretty cool.