Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 2 needs a better pinging system for not only PvP, but also WvW and even PvE. Instead of one red ping that could mean literally anything, a system similar to League of Legends should be used. In my opinion, at minimum we need a way to ping the following on the mini map:

-On my way (to let your teammates know where you are going, obviously)
-Use causation, back off, stay away (to let teammates know to not take a fight, or back off of a point)

These two pings alone could tremendously improve gameplay. Holding out 1v1 at home and not sure if anyone is coming? There is now a ping for that. Have one teammate trying to 4v1 at mid? There is now a ping to tell them to leave.

I hope you all like my idea!

They (I think it was Justin) talked about this once before, but I completely agree.

You should be able to ping:
- Come here/help
- I am on my way to this spot
- Stay away from this spot
- Enemy inc to this spot

Of course, top teams will still have an advantage with TS, but this would help very much with casual play.

This looks like a very good idea. It would be somewhat similar to commands one could give to Heroes in the GW1 expansions. I think a color for each teammate would be somewhat useful as well (so you can know who is pinging without their having to type it out), and also allow only 1 ping from each player over a period of time (like 1 ping/3s or so—maybe less—in the case of accidentally placed pings) to avoid that incessant rapid pinging people have a tendency to do. (I myself have been guilty of such when frustrated, although I make a conscious effort to refrain from doing so.) The ping could linger or pulse slowly on its own actually…

BlackBeard.2873:

They (I think it was Justin) talked about this once before, but I completely agree.

You should be able to ping:
- Come here/help
- I am on my way to this spot
- Stay away from this spot
- Enemy inc to this spot

Of course, top teams will still have an advantage with TS, but this would help very much with casual play.

I like all of these ideas! I agree that TeamSpeak eliminates the need for most of these pings. However, for people that do hot joins or even only queue with 2-4 in TeamSpeak, these pings could improve game play tremendously. I would be happy with even two different color pings like the ones we have now. One for “I’m on my way” and one for “Stay Away” to start with.

Darkpsyde.4782:

This looks like a very good idea. It would be somewhat similar to commands one could give to Heroes in the GW1 expansions. I think a color for each teammate would be somewhat useful as well (so you can know who is pinging without their having to type it out), and also allow only 1 ping from each player over a period of time (like 1 ping/3s or so—maybe less—in the case of accidentally placed pings) to avoid that incessant rapid pinging people have a tendency to do. (I myself have been guilty of such when frustrated, although I make a conscious effort to refrain from doing so.) The ping could linger or pulse slowly on its own actually…

I strongly agree that there needs to be a limit to the amount of pings over a period of time. I also have the habit of spamming pings (only for my team to not know what they mean because of the limited system), and I know how annoying it can be. I think the color idea for players is interesting, but may be too complicated. I think instead it could flash the player name or the class of the player (a small icon similar to the ones on the forum).

I would love to hear other opinions and thoughts on this idea!