Guild Wars 2

Add a friendship meter to the friends list. This meter would build up as a player plays together in a party with that person in any particular area of the game. The friendship would have levels that progress as the meter is filed. This meter could have sub meters for each area in the game that could be filled. For example, partying in the pve world for 1 hour would increase an increment. That’s just one example. Rewards would determine how significant group partying would be in the game. Bigger rewards will encourage more partying. Types of rewards would determine its necessity. This friendship meter could work similar to achievements with the requirements for leveling also…. Well that’s all I could think of for now.

I’m not to keen on the idea of putting relationship bars on friends lists.
After all we are playing Guild Wars 2, not The Sims 3 but I do like the idea of parties getting some advantage over non grouped.

Perhaps a some sort of buff like “Camaraderie” and it gives a random boon or increase to damage or vitality to represent the cohesive nature of the group versus going at it alone.

It still won’t solve the problem of people grouping for grouping’s sake and zerging a map with no coordination. That will take alterations of mobs and maps to get some results.