Guild Wars 2

I play a great deal of WvW, and I constantly find myself missing strategic information because I have guild, party, team and map chat to sift through, all in the same little window.

Despite having a maximised chat window, I still manage to miss stuff. Not sure if other people feel the same way but it would be great if we could view these channels of chat in various windows or a splittable chat window.

For example, instead of being able to flick between tabs, you could have one occupying the left 50% of the chat window, and one occupying the right 50%. Floating windows for various chats would be another possible solution.

I apologise if I have missed the suggestions thread/sub-forum, but the last permalink I tried to use to get to the official suggestions thread redirected me to the forum home page.

I think that tabs for different chats is workign well. Perhaps just having a brighter and more attention grabbing graphic for the tabs which have missed chats in them. Split your WvW/team chats into one, Guild into another, main for PVE into another. Allow whispers on all of them. Switch to your WvW one when your in there, and check guild chat whenever you have downtime/death in WvW.

I throw in my vote for allowing us to make a separate chat window that is NOT just another tab if that’s what you’re asking

Funnily enough that is exactly my current methodology for chat layout, but as an ex Eve online player, I have been spoiled by all the bells and whistles of a very customisable UI (guild wars 1 eventually had this to some extent, hence the reason I am suggesting it).

Your solution is ideal for those of us who struggle to keep up with all the goings on in various chats given the current implementation, but I hope that in the future A-Net will consider adding flexibility to the way chat can be displayed for those of us that want the option.

I would like to be able to move the chat tabs around my screen wherever I want. In most games I have the main few tabs in the default spot and a separate tab moved elsewhere on screen (usually above the main window) for guild/party/whisper.