Guild Wars 2

I’m sure it’s been brought up before but a cursory search didn’t find what I was looking for. Possibly because I used “droids” as the keyword. Anyway…

Sometimes when you get stuck in a pitched battle with both sides running back from spawn, you can’t always get to your keep on the opposite side of the map to refresh the siege which is bad news when the third server in the match rolls in like a roll of Mentos drinking Coke.

It’s not that people forget about the siege exactly, it’s just that it’s easy to assume someone else will take care of it. I’d like to see a floating countdown over siege that’s not in use, one you don’t have to click on and then hover over an icon to see. Possibly on a toggle for people who don’t want to see it.

That is all, thanks in advance for letting me drip this in the ocean of better ideas.

I think some people have timers or refresh siege on the hour or so. Having timers show on screen would just be more clutter. Also think of the impact in performance when having a dozen or so timers for many people being displayed on screen.

Good idea. +1

Refresh timers are a good idea, if you can choose to turn them on or off in options.

Bombsaway.7198:

Refresh timers are a good idea, if you can choose to turn them on or off in options.

This, and maybe have the timers pop up when there is 10-15 min left.

Bombsaway.7198:

Refresh timers are a good idea, if you can choose to turn them on or off in options.

Included a toggle in the OP.

+1

I like the idea but to refine it a bit maybe siege slowly pulses or has an aura when it drops below 15 min and pulses quickly or changes its aura color when below 5 min. Probably easier to code than a visible timer as well.

Rimmy.9217:

I’m sure it’s been brought up before but a cursory search didn’t find what I was looking for. Possibly because I used “droids” as the keyword. Anyway…

Sometimes when you get stuck in a pitched battle with both sides running back from spawn, you can’t always get to your keep on the opposite side of the map to refresh the siege which is bad news when the third server in the match rolls in like a roll of Mentos drinking Coke.

It’s not that people forget about the siege exactly, it’s just that it’s easy to assume someone else will take care of it. I’d like to see a floating countdown over siege that’s not in use, one you don’t have to click on and then hover over an icon to see. Possibly on a toggle for people who don’t want to see it.

That is all, thanks in advance for letting me drip this in the ocean of better ideas.

Been needed since day one.

That’s not the only thing – there needs to be a way to track where you place siege either in a group or using the person who places the siege who can then pass along the responsibility of the “map”.

I can think of those two right off the top of my head – I know developers can either take what we ask for and make it happen or they can come up with even better ways to track siege that is lost daily when there is no coverage.

Speaking of which, how about a line of mastery that allows one to go to BED and come back and the siege is not dead? A mastery to have a maximum 8 hour timer that counts down.

I am a tinkerer in real life – I have built, managed and maintained computers, networks an d businesses – there’s more to this MMO that has barely scratched the surface of what players can come up with (mine are so darn minor, I’ve seen brilliance in some posts).

All we can do is hope.

Cheers.

Congratulations. You’re the only person in months to post an idea that doesn’t immediately get poo poo’d by everybody looking for attention! Seems to me like that should fast track that in the development process.