Guild Wars 2

I have searched to no avail. Is there any command or window that serves this function that I haven’t been able to find or forgotten about in my absence? It seems like an odd thing to leave out of an mmo…

No there isn’t. The reason to make it harder to find other players was to limit spam and the like nontheless it remain a problem…

Just curious, since I haven’t played any other MMOs (except GW1 which I don’t think had this either), I looked this up on a WoW wiki and found out what it does, but I don’t understand why you’d want to do it.

What is the benefit in being able to search for other players like this, other than whisper spamming?

There are a number of benefits, though none so crucial as to make it vital to have.

- You’d like to know who in a guild is on-line and you yourself are not a member. Maybe to find the GM to praise or complain about a member.

- You know a few letters of the name of a friend but can’t remember all of it or his/her 4 number suffix.

- You are considering going to a zone where something big happens and you want to find someone in that zone to ask if it’s happening.

Etc. Obviously there are misuses as well. I don’t actually miss the feature in GW2, but then I have the guild panel to see who in my guilds is around and the friends panel for a side-list of those that might not share a guild with me. My main guild is active enough to give me plenty of social time

Donari.5237:

There are a number of benefits, though none so crucial as to make it vital to have.

- You’d like to know who in a guild is on-line and you yourself are not a member. Maybe to find the GM to praise or complain about a member.

- You know a few letters of the name of a friend but can’t remember all of it or his/her 4 number suffix.

- You are considering going to a zone where something big happens and you want to find someone in that zone to ask if it’s happening.

Etc. Obviously there are misuses as well. I don’t actually miss the feature in GW2, but then I have the guild panel to see who in my guilds is around and the friends panel for a side-list of those that might not share a guild with me. My main guild is active enough to give me plenty of social time

Exactly… and without either a /who or an effective LFG function it is impossible to find other players to do things with in this game.