Guild Wars 2

The story
Recently, I started playing a game called ‘Legend of Grimrock (2)’. It’s an old-school dungeon crawler, and a feature it had that I thoroughly enjoyed was the ability to customize your map. You could put several different markers on points in the map, with your own note to go with the marker. If there was a chest with a certain item in it that you might want to go back for later, you could throw down a note on the map so you could be reminded of where it was. So I thought, the same feature in Gw2 would be a huge QoL upgrade to a lot of people.
Now, the customizable map in Legend of Grimrock was a little limiting, as the only thing you could do was add markers with your own notes, so in this suggestion there’ll be some other features that I, and hopefully others, would like to see brought about.

The features

1. More than one personal waypoint, along with the ability to set a small footnote with the personal waypoints, as well as custom names for your personal waypoints.
2. A dynamic legend (aka a map key) that has all your personal waypoints, that you can click on to have the map instantly center on that waypoint.
3. Being able to draw persistent lines over your map. This feature already half exists, however the lines you can draw aren’t persistent and disappear after several seconds.
4. The ability to share your custom maps with other players in-game.
5. The ability to have multiple custom maps that you can switch to and from

Being a day 1 player with over 3,000 hours in the game, one thing that always annoyed me was that I often forgot where I got certain items. For example, sometimes there’s a consumable that I particularly like at the end of an event, and sometimes I forget where that event was, the wiki won’t help, etc. I thought about the idea of a customizable map from the first time this happened to me, but I never really pursued the idea much until now. With what looks like several new maps coming down the pipeline, players helping other players with information they learn about the new maps with a system like this, I believe would bring the community a bit closer.

• It would add a degree of realism to the game. We’re living in a breathing, changing world, and many people in this world would assuredly have different maps.
• I’m personally not much of an RPer, but I always enjoy that creative part of the game, and I can see RPers benefiting a ton from a feature like this.
• It would make guild missions a ton easier to handle. Instead of directing a new player who just entered a guild to an external website with guides (Dulfy, I’m talking about you) you could simply just share a map with guild bounty paths, trek locations, and whatever other things guilds do. In line with making them easier to do, nobody would have to constantly alt-tab to check an external website to help them realign their selves on the correct path.
• You could help newer players trying to get into dungeons by simply sharing your map of the dungeon you’ve crafted with footnotes of all the encounters and nice ways of dealing with the encounters.

These are just a few possibilities that could arise from such a feature. It’s something I would love to see introduced, and I’m sure there’s a lot of people who can agree. If there’s some crucial point you can think of that maybe I missed, please let us all know!