Guild Wars 2

It affects might stacking, and other beneficial effects, as a result of your buffs prioritizing your party. 3-5 guards for example, would waste a lot of might because it affects your party either entirely or mostly.

I think this is a very gracious and much appreciated practice having grabbed one of these late taxis myself.

As to how this effects might stacking: when you use a skill that applies might, it is prioritized to your party first, and then to an area around you. For large events such aa Teq and TT, it is desirable to run without parties so that the second priority, i.e. AOE around the caster, is in play spreading the might and other buffs more evenly among all the participants.

That said, unless you are running a character that is spcifically adept at stacking loads of might in that moment when you’re trying to burn down Tequatl, being in a group trying to taxi more participants in will have little effect on the overall stacking. Conversely, bringing more people into a map that isn’t full will increase DPS far more than might, IMO.

Couldn’t people just taxi in and drop group if being in one is an issue with stacking?

So, it would be OK for a Necro to keep a group open for late comers, but not for an Ele to do so — and the late joiners should know to drop group once on the map?

if map is full and a orgianized tt or teq usualy are you should drop taxis when all are split up into teams to avoid people taking spots from people who dc.’

What if 1 or 2 of your dps commanders drop and cant get back in?

I think there’s some confusion about the the meaning of “organized” events. I’m going to invent the term “sponsored” event to refer to the situation when a particular guild or group of commanders is actively organizing the map. And “ad hoc coordination” to refer to what happens with e.g. Tequatl, when a map ‘spontaneously’ coordinates the various roles.

In the case of a “sponsored event,” roles have been thought out ahead of time for maximum efficiency — regardless of any specific reasons, you want as many people following the same plan (ideally with VoIP support) and as few “randoms” as possible. Thus, you don’t want to Taxi at all unless the commanders ask for it.

In the case of “ad hoc coordination,” it’s the opposite. There’s no way to be sure everyone is following the same plan in the first place and there’s a lot of room for different approaches. In this case, you almost always want to Taxi as many as possible.

tl;dr if there’s a “sponsor”, best to follow the commanders’ plans, including whether to taxi or not. If there isn’t a sponsor, sure, keeping a taxi LFG is a cool thing to do.