Guild Wars 2

Recently, I decided to leave a HoD “PvX” guild as they mostly ran WvW only to create a PvE guild. Since MegaServers have been added and guilds are now global, it would be quite easy to build a community interested in more of the PvE side of the game. Though I am finding members who wish to join, I’m encountering a rather problematic issue.

All though MegaServer allows people from every server to join and play in a map, we’re finding great difficulty in actually joining each others map shards. Last night brought me to even more confusion. A guild member was playing in Plains of Ascalon so I thought I’d party him up and join him. When entering Plains of Ascalon, per the party menu, we seemed to be in the same map shard but neither of us showed on the map or were able to see each other. I had to guest over from HoD to JQ in order to see him. Oddly enough, the same people that were chatting in the map before I guested were in his same map shard.

Also, it seems that merchants and summoned NPCs are inaccessible to players in certain areas. In standard maps, it seems that a player can pop a Black Lion Merchant and anyone can access them. A friend of mine’s inventory was full in a home instance and when I summoned a merchant he couldn’t access it. Nor could he use the merchants (armorer) found in the map.

I’m kind of worried that if I continue to promote and build a mega server guild, it will be severely problematic if players can’t gather together and play unless they guest to a specific server.

Is it possible that changes could be made to the current mega-server system to allow these “benefits.” Would other members of the forum like to take this as a challenge and post their results for a better chance of a bug fix.

!! Find someone of another server, party and join a map. See if you can actually join their shard and play with this. See if you have any other complications.

*Slightly off topic by related: The guild menu also tends to “break.” When you first log in, it shows everyone’s location with mega server active. Within 20-30 minutes, the guild menu reverts to showing a users Server in orange instead of showing their location in White.

~ Sacred Was Eldaron :: emullins.7369