Guild Wars 2

How come you can no longer do grouping for hearts? My friend has to finish his heart, then I can finish mine. Like, we kill the required things, but it doesn’t share. Did they remove it?

It was never there. You don’t join groups for hearts, and never did.

What are the benefits of being in the group then?

After a little more thought, I have to change what I said. I have never joined a group for hearts so I will have to be honest and say that I don’t know what happens in a heart group. So take what I said with a grain of salt.

Buff sharing if you in a zerg. Oh and a little blue indicator on a minimap.

TheRandomGuy.7246:

Buff sharing if you in a zerg. Oh and a little blue indicator on a minimap.

And you can see how much % of the heart they’ve done next to their party icon.

And have a very own channel to speak in.

The real reason for grouping is just seeing when the other person is done, without asking them. However, there are ways people doing hearts together can speed each other’s progress.

For one thing, obviously things die faster, as long as you make sure both people get hits. More to the point, there are some hearts where you interact with something, like in the monastary in Queensland, to get the grubs to come up.

Alone you pull the grub tail once, and a grub comes up. That means you get a bit of progress and progress for kill the grub. With two people each of you gets progress for pulling the grub tail, but then you both get credit for killing 2 grubs, since each of you summons one.

It is noticeably faster to do hearts with a friend.

loreah.8671:

What are the benefits of being in the group then?

If you are asking about the benefits of being in a group in general, you get:
*a closed party chat system.
*Icons on your minimap showing you where your party members are at all times.
*boons you and your group cast prioritize your group first when others are around.
*your collective damage as a party is counted for tagging individual mobs for credit.

And I’m sure there’s more I’m missing. Hearts in particular are usually individual contribution only. I forget if there are any that work through group contribution.