Guild Wars 2

Hello, My guild just recently upgraded the Guild Portal. And I noticed that Guild Portal is too restricted. It’s Like portal for PvP and LA is pointless, you can get there by just opening PvP tab and press Enter PvP and then go through a portal that is in PvP to LA. I am not complaining, now I can go Guild Hall and then LA. But the PvP one is just nonsense. Also Only portals to the Guild Missions are kinda weird, we had 4 missions open only 2 of those has portal available. Can you please improve the Guild Portal otherwise the whole machine is waste of time & pointless ( I would rather pay 2-3 silver ( As we do now ) to get to the waypoint. ) If you added all the waypoints in the world would be good. Maybe add a cooldown ( 5 minutes ) on the portal so you can’t abuse it. Also when you use portal it throws you in different instances.

Suggestion: Add all the waypoints to the portal or at least to all the big events like world bosses… Maybe when you open a portal – lock a certain instance so everyone gets in the same one. Also add a permission so only people with permission can use a portal so it can’t be abused, if you add a cooldown that is resolved anyway. ( but the cooldown can’t be too high. As i mentioned before 5 minutes would be perfect, And lastly make the portal open for a bit longer )
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Agree, if adding destinations may make things too easy for people to go to certain places. Anet can make additional destinations as upgrade. As for now, it isn’t that useful except for pve guild missions but given the cost of the portal, it is reasonable.

I’d actually love for this thing to have unlocks for perhaps the zone edge waypoints in each zone, even if those unlocks are fairly expensive.

However, the point of it isn’t for general travel, it’s meant to be used specifically to deploy to guild missions from your guild hall. It does that pretty well for the most part. You’re only really meant to use to to do guild missions with. If it’s not opening portals to mission areas, are you sure they weren’t missions where finding something is part of the mission goal, like a trek or bounty? Teleporting you directly to a bounty or trek spot would kind of nullify the points of the mission.

My guild has been considering getting the Portal but this will surely turn us away.

We have a sizeable amount of new people and being able to directly go to the Guild Mission locations, irrespective of level, would be awesome since it means we don’t need to spend a huge amount of time running new people to the spots every time. Sadly it sounds like it does not do this. :(

They doesn’t work very good for PvE either. Most people still ends in separate instances, so your guild need to do the old party taxi anyway. Also with the continuous re-instancing of the Hall map, and with the many, many bugs you experiment when arriving to the maps, the Portal feels more like an hyndrance for the guild, than an improvement.

We hope things will change when the Squad system gets live. But right now, simply doing a guild race using the portal is disgustingly awkward.

A second upgrade that adds select Pact-controlled waypoints would be a great option. Each would only be available to characters that have already unlocked it. To provide an even spread across the map, it could include Earthshake Waypoint, Fort Trinity Waypoint, and Camp Resolve Waypoint.

Fishrock.5207:

My guild has been considering getting the Portal but this will surely turn us away.

We have a sizeable amount of new people and being able to directly go to the Guild Mission locations, irrespective of level, would be awesome since it means we don’t need to spend a huge amount of time running new people to the spots every time. Sadly it sounds like it does not do this.

It does in fact do this for things like puzzle and rush and i believe also challenge. However it is reasonable that it doesn’t do it for trek or bounty since those are ones where the journey to find the target is the mission.

That being said i think adding an upgrade for it to allow portal to a single edge wp of each map would be nice and doesn’t sound like it can be abused.