Guild Wars 2

These are only a few ideas I had saved in my notes, but these forums have many more ideas to make the game mode better and more fun.

• instead of a huge announcement at the top of the screen that often covers the fight, I would like to see a more discreet log on the side, with everything that happens in the map: objective flips, enemy sightings by the guards (with numbers? and guild tags?), objectives under attack, etc…
• all guards should mark enemies on the map, at least in a limited range (the Tower scouting guild upgrade extends the range further)
• make WvW eventful to enable new players to “automatically fit in”
• create a system in game to list guilds and their recruitment status

This post is part of a series I made for the 4th birthday of the game. You can find links to the other posts in the overview

Build templates are badly needed. I frequently run with the zerg then zone off to scout. I need to be able to change builds on the fly.

I still think the enemy marking etc. are bad addon for WvW. Scouting and map awereness are something players should do. Automatic scouting, information, etc. just make people to blob more because you can stick to one big group and still get all the info you need while on the move by NPC guards etc.

If something flips while you don’t give it any attention, you shouldn’t know it got flipped and definitely not know how many or who flipped it.

And guards shouldn’t mark enemies. Maximum information a guardpost should give is that its under attack or that there are enemies near by. No numbers nor anything else.

morrolan.9608:

Build templates are badly needed. I frequently run with the zerg then zone off to scout. I need to be able to change builds on the fly.

That’s the biggest request from the whole community (not only WvW!) that hasn’t been solved yet. It’s about time, I completely agree.

Paavotar.3971:

I still think the enemy marking etc. are bad addon for WvW. Scouting and map awereness are something players should do.

it wouldn’t prevent you from doing it, it would only help those servers that don’t have enough people enjoying scouting to cover all the maps

also, consider it only works for objectives you hold, while players can scout “in enemy territory” so to say