Guild Wars 2

Is it just me or does everyone else have a problem inviting players to a team whilst IN a WvW Borderland or in Eternal Battlegrounds?

OUTSIDE of WvW I never have a problem inviting anyone to a Team. All I have to do is right click their name in chat or even in the Guild Roster and I can ‘Invite to Party’.

INSIDE of WvW, every-time I try to invite anyone to a team via right clicking their name in chat or from their character portrait the only option I get is the ‘Report’ option. This is the same result if I try and invite from the Guild Roster as well.

The ONLY way I am able to invite anyone into a Team while in WvW is to actually type out the invite, like so: /invite playername

I have to do this with every single player that i would like to have in my team.

Is this a bug or is this working as intended? This would seem like an awfully inefficient way to invite anyone to a Team for WvW.

I have also been told that a way to avoid this problem is to add people to my friends list then I will be able to invite them to team via right clicking their name in chat, even in WvW. This option is highly inefficient as I have A LOT of guild mates who WvW and A LOT of guild-mates in general. Adding them ALL to my friends list would just be silly.

Its a bug. A very technical one having to do with you and the invitee being on a different physical server than your home server i imagine, but a bug non-the-less.

What I do is have them join my party instead of having me invite them. That way I only have to accept the join request and it saves my typing their names (that may or may not be complicated).

I believe this is because they don’t want you to be able to interact with enemy players, so they homogenized your choices to just “report” for everyone in WvW as they don’t have the ability to segregate your options.

At least, that’s what I figured.

It’s weird, I get the “report” button sometimes, and the proper option list other times. It’s the same thing with my contacts list – some of the contacts don’t even have the option to remove them, only a nice report button.

Hilight their name and type /invite or /join into the chat box.

Alarox.4590:

I believe this is because they don’t want you to be able to interact with enemy players, so they homogenized your choices to just “report” for everyone in WvW as they don’t have the ability to segregate your options.

At least, that’s what I figured.

It’s a shame that isn’t the reality, though. Click an enemy and type /invite or /join.

I agree with you though, that they probably just tried to avoid people party spamming with enemy servers.

This is a really annoying bug, particularly when taking special alt characters in to account. Thanks for the tip Zastari.

I think what the OP means is when in WVW they can’t invite others by right clicking their name in chat and hitting an invite option.

I myself have ran into where I can only “report” fellow guild members by right clicking to invite for a guild wvw event, and I just solve it by typing /invite or having them type /join

It is silly how you can only report people through right click especially in the guild roster… :|
The sad thing is it fails at stopping the “fix” to talking to enemies as you can just select them press “P” and click invite, though it only reveals their name if the accept the invitation.

I have had this too; but then, I’ve also had people in PvE that didn’t have the Invite option in the right click menu – not sure it’s WvW specific. And yet even if the option’s not there /invite or using the UI and typing the name in Invite works …