Guild Wars 2

Kinda disappointed in the guild portal upgrade. I was looking forward to using it as a method to get the entire guild zerg into the puzzle/challenge instance when mission time comes but instead it only ports you to the closest waypoint.

I can do that by linking the WP in guild chat.

It also would have been cool to be able to link it to your guild’s waypoint of choice. The upgrade seems wasted if only a select few (its rank gated) can actually use it.

Finally, unrelated to guild portals but the guild XP upgrade is pretty bad. 3% XP gain doesn’t feel like a guild wide reward at all, and considering that guild members are supposed to choose if they want this or the other %upgrades (i.e. karma), it seems like everyone loses. Its a huge downgrade from the old guild wide buffs.

I agree with this and also just want to add that while it does seem to perform as expected when opening a portal, we can only port to puzzle/challenge nearest WP locations and what seem to be 2 random destinations as well, LA and PvP Lobby.

While the 2 extra destinations are welcomed, 1 is already easily accessible at the top and I don’t quite understand why we can’t just mass portal to any WP (within reason) in the game?

My guild just unlocked this and I am also disappointed. I was expecting It to jump us to any waypoint the user had, not this…

I can understand that it allows those without the way points quick access to the area, but that usefulness is very short-lived.

In it’s current form I would say this is a waste of resources to upgrade.

I had the Opposite feeling. I loved it. Link Waypoint in Chat – “I don’t have that” – Oh no, you do now. Not everyone wants to get all the Waypoints to Everything that a Guild might do on every character they might be playing or want to bring. This helps fill in some of that gap. The members can all use the Teleport to LA and the Solo Travel to the Destinations. It’s a Rank Lock on the Group side of it.

Move Guild into Hall – Swap Maps until it’s Stable – Make groups – Open Portal – Go have fun. And who knows, they might expand on what it can do past that.

As a tool for “Herding Cats” – it will always be amazing.