Guild Wars 2

I think Anet might be better off considering “Rez Points” instead of waypoints for defeated players. Rez points are in many games and are not places where folks can just portal in from outside. It is set to a specific task…that of rezzing defeated players.

Something like this would be a better option than more waypoints, or even uncontested waypoints, considering the possibilities folks are discussing about zergs popping in and causing mayhem if waypoints were changed to uncontested.

So I get involved in a zone event and finally get defeated…but, there are no waypoints I can rez at that are clear. All points are contested except the one in the very center of the Forgotten City?

Please Anet, you really need to have some sort of rez spot for these events that don’t require you to rez at a waypoint all the way across the zone. Not being able to rez nearby is making it impossible to get back to the event you were involved with.

Fix it so that we can at least rez somewhere even if it is not a waypoint….just a rez spot on a small platform out of the way in the same zone you are involved with the event. You want folks to be able to get back to the event they were fighting with in order to progress it? You need to rethink rez spots.!!!

Even in other games that have portals of some sort for travel, you find rez spots nearby that allow you to rez then hop back into the fray to continue the fight you were involved with.

I ran across several of these in the Forgotten City. They look like likely candidates that can be placed around the zones as a rez spot. These would work pretty well if programmed for rez only. Not sure what they are used for as I’ve not seen them being used anytime I’ve been around them.

Completely agree and don’t think the concept is crazy, it exists already in story instances (waypoints)

You mean like Resurrection Shrines?

they would never ever ever ever do something that worked very well in gw1.

I’ve never understood the mentality of developers to NOT use something that worked in an earlier game design. Not to be used in an updated portion of the same game??

Makes more sense to use what works than not. After all you already have the tools and the programming…how hard would it be to incorporate it?

Those shrine-like things in your screenshot are used just prior to the defend part of the meta. If you can read the encryptions you go through them to a little sub-game and can earn one of a limited number of enchanted armors

Kaz.5430:

Those shrine-like things in your screenshot are used just prior to the defend part of the meta. If you can read the encryptions you go through them to a little sub-game and can earn one of a limited number of enchanted armors

There are encryptions on them? I never noticed that. I’ll check that out…but still my point is, why not have rez points even if over in a corner somewhere out of the way instead of making a defeated player have to use a waypoint across the zone that is not contested.

The problem I see is by the time you manage to get back to where you needed to go, the fight is over…or you ended up in a completely different iteration of the map you started on.

Really bad design.

zaced.7948:

they would never ever ever ever do something that worked very well in gw1.

lol, +1 to that!

I’m just progressing my four characters through VB, so can’t speak to other maps. It occurred to me the other day that waypoints are located conveniently near the helicopter rides to the canopy. So when you die in a Legendary match in the canopy you can go to the waypoint, repair armor, and helicopter back up very quickly.

The focus of the waypoints may in fact be “higher level events” but I agree that on the ground it’s really hard to stay in an event if you die.

+1

Oh my gosh I logged in just to tag this. I completely agree. Bring back resurrection booths from GW1! Accessible only to the dead, if you’re alive you pay for a WP. Problems solved.