Guild Wars 2

I used to play League of Legends and they had a simple yet handy upgrade to their generic ping that greatly improved communication and teamwork. You can take a quick look here: http://forums.eune.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=546509

You could still hold the ping button and just click once for the generic ping, but you could also hold your click and drag left/right/up/down to issue advanced pings (because of map drawing this would have to be a separate keybind).

Three of the LoL pings would be applicable to gw2: “danger”, “assist me”, and “on my way”. The fourth, “enemy missing”, is not quite as relevant imo but it could be replaced by something like “retreat” or “enemy on the way” for example.

Another feature of the advanced pings is that they showed up on the ground in addition to the map, allowing them to be seen by someone in the middle of a fight who can’t spare a second to glance at the minimap or chat.

I would love to see something like this introduced into gw2 spvp as it would really help with team communication instead of having to guess what that ping on the map means or frantically typing some variation of “2 inc home need help” as you get rushed.

This is a great idea.
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Jai more visual clutter

that would be a great edition! and I dont think the ping’s having 4 different colors will create much visual clutter

lloydst.6985:

Jai more visual clutter

It would be actually helpful visuals though, and I’m sure if anet ever did do something like this it wouldn’t be that much more work to add a toggle option for the ground pings