Guild Wars 2

I’ve been stuck at 99% in world completion for a while now, and the only points I’m missing are located in WvW towers and keeps that my world seems to never be able to get a hold of. But wouldn’t it be great if there was some sort of buff that arenanet sold at the gem store that gave you some kind of immunity for an hour or so in all wvw maps so that you could get all those poi’s and vistas you need? And while you’re under the effects of this buff you cannot claim any land or fight anyone? So it’s just used for roaming?

What a fantastic idea!

i vaguely recall a similar idea using town clothes and a “passive” toggle.

I believe WvWers get upset about “spies.” They don’t even like a dead person having enough camera control to report on what they are doing. I’m not sure how much impact that actually has but I am sure the “spy” haters will loathe the idea of someone being able to invulnerably wander the land. Certainly those who think it is useful to report on enemy action will use it for that rather than for completion.

I’ve done world completion on multiple characters, and without fail it was always a pain in the yeah to complete the WVW part. Server tiers, and matchups strongly affect what you are able to do or not do. I finally completed 100% on my latest character by staying up til 3 AM one night and catching Stonemist castle being flipped to my server for all of 5 minutes or so.

I wholeheartedly support the toggle/passive/nonfighting roamer idea.

Back during my time on the EU it was reasonably easy to get map completion due to one sided nature of certain match ups. Now I am on a silver level NA server & maps are always contested. So getting completion is going to take an age (2 or 3 chars sitting at 96%).

Another option is to take completion out of world vs world.

Create instances of the borderlands & Eternal Battlegrounds maps solely for people seeking completion.

I liked the challenge in WvW. Soloed as much I could, and then waited a week or so but our server position did not change in EB. Asking help in map chat may turn out to be a good idea. Maybe that is how I got the last, or just pure luck.