Guild Wars 2

I had always wondered why GW2 of all mmos don’t have this, and that’s shortcut command lines to quickly instruct or notify your team.

It’s so simple yet would be so effective in coordinating with other party members, if i had a shortcut commands to say to my team things like:
“All to me, it’s healing time”
“We’re running now”
“Focus on res please”
“Come back to me”
“Attack first, res later”
(sorry, can only come up with crappy ones- I’ve adapted so much to the current party system I can’t think of good command lines, oh gawd. =_=" years of mmo terms rinsed out by GW2.)

These simple lines would help so much in dungeons and fractals to help co-ordinate our skills to be effective in teamplay. I think this would also help when easing in first-timers and when the party is in combat. I play a very active kitmaster build engineer with grenades (manual targeting), I don’t have time to type or have a breather when we are up against e.g fire imp boss in fractals.
I believe most of the frustration in dungeons and fractals can proabably be easily solved with some sort of in-game quick communication system such as this.

However I have taken to account the abundance of builds and skills used from all professions, I think there should be a way we can also personalise our commands so that suits our build and skills.
E.g, “bandages here!”- since I use medkit and can spread bandages on the floor.

Another thing, how about a priority system? Instead of just of being able to target one object, it would be great if we had a second and third target option.
Situation example:
Team has a red target toggle(first priority target) on the boss to focus attack. Three of us gets down by one of the ads and is currently fighting for life, we can toggle yellow target (second priority target) on that ad so that all three down players can focus and kill to rally while the other two aggro on main boss and other things.

Simple functions as these, I think would help in making teamplay in dungeons and missions more strategic instead of “zerging” it or using the “trial and error” methods.

What does everyone think about these ideas?
And if you had shortcut command lines, what would yours be? Or you definitely want to see?

I completely agree with this. Maybe you could post your suggestion in the Suggestions forum to see if the devs take a look at it.