Guild Wars 2

Hello,

I am creating this topic because, as the subject specifies, I would like to kinda know more about guesting.

We know that the guesting feature will not come with the January update, or at least, it does not seem like it (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Guesting-for-pve-timeline)

Now my question is not about when but more of how will it work?

So far we know that we will be able to transfer from one server to another to play PvE with other people. So not dungeons but actual PvE since it is already possible for dungeons.

But will we be able to transfer from a NA server to a EU server? Or will we be stuck in our region?
Also, will the people guesting will have to be in the same alliance? In the same group? If you quit the group, will you be “unguested”?

I assume that Anet can’t really talk about this right now, since it is not done yet. However, many people are waiting for some info to kinda plan some server change or some inter server guilds etc.

Anything on this subject would be most welcome. =)

Also what do you (other players) think that this guesting feature should work?

Hey,

I have to admit that I am also worried about how this will work. Having friends in both EU and US servers, I can’t play with half of them at all since dungeons are region selective.

In my opinion they should allow guesting on any server, anytime, BUT in order to avoid exploits:
1) No node gathering possible while guesting (or at least the last tier ones) [possibly unless using Black Lion tools]
2) Drop reduction on world events (maybe do it so that you can’t get precursors and other highly valuable drops while guesting to prevent guesting-farming)

I really would like to know what trouble they’re having with it. Maybe someone among the players could have an idea.

What’s wrong with harvesting nodes and farming events while guesting?

More precursor drops = cheaper precursors. That’s frankly a win. The TP already works across all servers, so there’s no reason to worry about unbalancing a single server’s economy from node harvesting. It might make harvested resources cheaper if bots start doing it, but I don’t think regular players will spend a lot of time on that – most of the requests for guesting come from people who want to do events, JPs, etc with friends.

The issue could be lag or population balancing – that kind of thing can be very tricky. Setting a timer on how long people can guest would be one way to handle that (it would also help prevent huge farming runs, if that’s really a concern).

well my geuss would be it be just like how you swap to a differenet overfow if you are in a group that is not in the same overflow, just that you can now do it to the actual servers. I do fear however it will be region restrictied (though would not ATM be and issue for me, but never know in the future)

Honestly I do not see why we should have restrictions because as said, we can use overflows as much as we want if we want to repeat events (like it happened for the lost shore one)

However if it is what it takes to be able to be guesting NA people over EU and the opposite that’s fine with me. I just do not want to chose between the people I want to play with like I am doing now. They announced that the guesting will solve this problem but without more info on it I just do not know what we can expect =x

Was just about to make a thread about this.

EU / US guesting is direly needed. Many of your players come from GW1 where you were not restricted to your own region, leading to many friendships being built across these borders.

These friendships are withering by the day now.

TP is already global so the economy won’t be affected, the dungeon issue really makes me sad though.