Guild Wars 2

This has been bugging me even more after playing Heroes of the Storm, and it’s in other games too.

Pings. Pings with sound and icons. You ping the map, sound happens, people know to check the map to see what you pinged. You don’t even need detailed notifications, just give me a map ping sound for whenever I’m in the same party (PvE), squad (WvW), and most importantly, same team in sPvP. If you’re worried about abuse, make sure that the sound can only play once every 3 or 5 seconds per player pinging.

Downed Notification. If a teammate or enemy goes down, I want a sound notification. It doesn’t have to be obnoxious. It could be a voice over line. I know in Heroes that whenever someone dies it just gives a small ping sound, and the sound plays at a different note depending on if its a teammate or enemy that died. It’s subtle, but really effective. Give me a sound for when someone is downed, and another sound for when someone dies. It hopefully will alert people to when their teammates just died at far so they should turn away from far or take a different and not get into a 1v3.

If people are going to get more awareness for rotations, they need more awareness for what’s happening around the map. And currently there’s just the bare minimum, which is why voice is so powerful and so requested.