Guild Wars 2

Back in Guild Wars 1 there were yellow colored messages in the chat box that couldn’t be ignored. Things like Favor of the Gods (http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Favor_of_the_Gods), and these world-wide announcements were REALLY handy in finding out what was going on around the world (or in this case/suggestion, your server) at the time.

I think this feature from GW1 should be implemented in GW2 for things like world boss events. It’s so frustrating having to wait for a hugely populated guild to come along once in a blue moon to help (and successfully) kill the great jungle wurm, for example, in the Bloodtide Coast. If EVERYONE knew that the great jungle wurm boss was approaching, then perhaps maps would get filled up more easily, and players would be able to get their achievements a lot faster.

A simple suggestion like a yellow line of text in the chat box saying something like ‘there are trembles in Bloodtide Coast. The great jungle wurm will approach in the next 5 minutes’ would do wonders. And perhaps also have nearby NPC’s say the same (or similar) thing – telling nearby players that this event is going on, or will happen in the next X minutes.

Why don’t we have this? It was SUCH an amazing and helpful feature in GW1, and I think it would be extremely helpful for things like world boss events. PLEASE Anet consider this. I think it would help so much.

Edit: One of my friends suggested this and I think it’s a great point. Have a chat channel that announces these world event/boss messages, so that players can choose to toggle them on or off, and also perhaps have the ability to toggle specific boss events on or off (for those only looking for 1 specific boss, or those looking for, say, only the fire elemental boss, the megadestroyer, and the karka queen?).

I know we have the LFG system, and it’s helpful in finding others to help, but that only reaches a certain amount of people – and that’s IF they’re looking for the same content you are. If this world announcement chat system was included, I think it could reach far more people. Also, with the LFG system, as soon as your group is filled up, your party that’s advertised there is removed. Even more reason to implement this to reach more people for things like world boss events.

Boss events spawn every 15 minutes. Having text suddenly pop up every 15 minutes might become incredibly annoying. Though, you did mention the option to toggle, so that should definitely be an option if a feature like this were ever implemented.

An alternative option to something like this was an in-game boss timer, as opposed to players manually pulling up a boss timer from the internet. If a boss timer was part of the Hero Panel somewhere, then players could look over it at their leisure and still know when each world boss was due to spawn, rather than having text pop up for everyone.

It’s a staple feature in almost every MMO, and I’m surprised they are not an aspect of GW2, especially with the wide range of uses they could have such as announcing the arrival of world bosses, or ongoing events and so on.

rapthorne.7345:

It’s a staple feature in almost every MMO, and I’m surprised they are not an aspect of GW2, especially with the wide range of uses they could have such as announcing the arrival of world bosses, or ongoing events and so on.

It is an aspect of GW2 though, world announcements are used preceding new updates to the game. During certain Living World Season 1 events such as the “Clockwork Chaos Invasions” a world message appeared when one region of Tyria was under attack.

Zalladi.4652:

Boss events spawn every 15 minutes. Having text suddenly pop up every 15 minutes might become incredibly annoying. Though, you did mention the option to toggle, so that should definitely be an option if a feature like this were ever implemented.

An alternative option to something like this was an in-game boss timer, as opposed to players manually pulling up a boss timer from the internet. If a boss timer was part of the Hero Panel somewhere, then players could look over it at their leisure and still know when each world boss was due to spawn, rather than having text pop up for everyone.

An in-game boss timer interface would be awesome too. That would be really handy. Currently I’m using the world boss event timer from guildwarstemple. Though I think the world announcement chat would still be required at least in some form too (that could be toggled on/off) to let everyone know. And if people didn’t want to see the world boss event announcements, they could toggle that off, and they also wouldn’t have to open up the boss timer interface. A win-win for everyone really. Those that want to be informed, are informed, and those who don’t, aren’t!