Guild Wars 2

Many zones have meta-event chains with concise information about dynamic events all over the zone displayed on every player’s screen, so they can know when they’re needed to go help out with a big assault or defense. Why not add something similar for WvW, a dynamic event which is accessible from every zone, and affects the entire world?

Simplest notification would show a bar with % WvW holdings (by points rewarded).

Slightly more detail would include a blurb with the status of StoneMist and the three Orbs.

Expanding the notification could show bars with % holdings for each of each of the borderlands.

Serious detail could have indicators for the number of capture points currently being assaulted or defended by our world.

Simple notifications like these would allow players all across the world to be quickly aware when they are most needed in WvW, without having to teleport to Lion’s Arch and yell in mapchat, or get a guild member online in WvW to scout, or even just opening the WvW menu every 10 minutes to see whether it’s changed, all of which are very active habits that must be maintained, as opposed to everything else in the game’s PvE which players can passively absorb and react to.

Edit: To clarify, I’m not suggesting any changes be made to the notifications currently in place in WvW. The way the map and event system functions in WvW itself is close to perfect. I’m only suggesting notifications about WvW status be added for players in PvE and possibly PvP.

Not a bad idea! One of the only decent ideas I have seen on this forum today.

They dont add it cause WvW is suppose to be about your server and your server working together if you got a post when ever something was bein hit then that would stop small grps goin out and capping stuff while the zerg is fighting the zerg. if you do this then it will just make it zerg vs zerg and no one wants that people complain about being out numbered al ready with zergs..

tho i shoulda read it all haha with that system they could do it as if your guild owns the keep then they get warnings when a guard is killed near the tower/keep they own or when the door is being hit i agree with that but should not be the whole server just the guild who owns the location

Bdsteelers: as I’ve edited to clarify, I don’t mean to add any notifications in WvW, and even if a post did go out to players in PvE/PvP about a supply camp being capped (which is not what I’m suggesting), the response time would still be too great to affect covert missions like that, since any PvE/PvP players would still have to zone into WvW and travel from home base anyway. The potential strategy of leaving someone in PvE to notify guildies already in WvW would also be no more effective than just having a designated WvW player checking his map every 10 seconds and reporting on the crossed-swords that pop-up on the current WvW interface.