Guild Wars 2

Dear Anet,

Please change Warrior banners so that only the player who placed the banner can pick it back up.

Other players love to run off with my banners. Players that have no idea what banners are for, or how to use them. These players players invariably carry the banner with them for a random distance before dropping the banner in the middle of nowhere.

Banners are useful in between fights for granting AoE swiftness to allies, and it’s useful to have a banner in hand if your party gets ambushed. (I play mostly in WvW). But I can’t do these things if someone has run off with it.

Also, there is very little tactical advantage to allowing other players to pick up my banners in the first place. Nobody ever picks up my banner and uses it for what it was intended for – for example, using the banner of discipline to grant AoE fury, or using the 5 skill as a blast finisher to grant might to allies. No, other players just hit “F” in the middle of combat (or even after) and pick up the banner for no other reason than because we’ve all been conditioned to hit “F” when prompted. Then they drop it in some inconvenient place as previously mentioned.

Thanks for reading Anet. I realize I am like one of two players in the entire universe that like to specialize in banners with my warrior, but I hope you will give my request some thought. I promise you there are zero balance issues at stake if you fulfill my humble request.

Dingo

Yeah. Or easier solution would maybe be that only party members can pick em up.

I don’t think it’s a complete solution as running multiple banners means you will have to abandon some of your banners whenever you want to relocate.

I can understand when some random guy that doesn’t want to make any effort to communicate picks it up and runs off with it. Although I find that most people are pretty reasonable and will let it go if you simply ask them.

I find I usually have the opposite problem with no one wanting to pick them up and just leaving them behind altogether, but I’m not really sure what other solution there could be aside from somehow “packing up” the banners after they’ve been summoned, kind of like how an engineer can pick up their turrets.

Alfred Nobel.2914:

Yeah. Or easier solution would maybe be that only party members can pick em up.

This would be oke.
OP suggestion not so much…

In dungeons warriors run(well, SHOULD run) 2 banners, so you need 1 party member to carry one of em to the next fight.

If youre in open world solo you should be using signets anyway unless youre doing tequatl, in which case no one is running off with banners. If youre running a banner regen build for pve for purposes of keeping yourself alive the question becomes why are you running banner regen in pve.

In my experiences with banners in open world people will generally leave them unless they feel like trolling. As for dungeons people generally grab 1 and take it to the next stack spot if youre running double banner leaving you to take the other banner. As for fractals most of the time you only ever drop the banners out of the way but close enough to fight bosses unless youre doing the one where you free dr. Manhattan.

A lot of people dont even know banner 5 is a blast finisher.