Guild Wars 2

Last night, while leaving lowlands EB Keep, i was running along the wall and pressed “M” to pull up my map to see who owned SMC. To my surprised i saw a huge group of orange dots moving right next to me and i promptly closed my map and saw the enemy zerg next to Klovan, I thought this was a new feature but when I typed it out in map chat apparently no one believed me so this led me to believe it is a possible WvW bug. I searched through reddit and found that it has happened before and i found a few threads searching this entire forum on the location bug.

How would you feel if this was a feature that you could see enemy players as orange dots when you pull up the big map? Just like when you see a red arrow representing a downed player.

Example: (I don’t play on HoD btw, i just found this example which is exactly what i saw myself on my own server).

I got this a while back and did some research. It seems to be the common opinion that this effect takes place briefly after a player transfers from one map to another by using a waypoint. Commonly, when waypointing to the defence of a keep, from, say, a borderland map into the EB map, this can occur. Once those dots move out of range, they are not replaced and soon, the effect fades.

I had this once when an enemy thief got the stealth trap revealed debuff in a keep of ours. Tracked him on the minimap.

Would be a cool feature for roaming rangers, if they could either mark players or lay traps that would let them be tracked for a bit. Especially if rangers ever got a camo skill.