Guild Wars 2

I have a lot of contacts that are playing in many different WvW servers.

Since last big patch, all my contacts that are online and playing in WvW, show a wrong borderland: all (not those in EB) seems to play in one of the borderlands of my matchup (I’m on RingOfFire+WhitesideRidge)

Old topic, but there are no other threads on this issue. There are no responses here yet and I’m seeing the exact the same issue. I’ve got friends on worlds in other matches and they’re showing as fighting on a borderland that is part of my match.

For instance, I, player X, am on Stormbluff Isle (t3) and friend Y is on Tarnished Coast (t1). He’s still on TC because I asked what world he was on. The issue is that for me, he’s showing as in Sea of Sorrows Borderlands, which is a map in my match (t3, remember). He then tells me he’s in Blackgate Borderlands.

After looking at this a little more closely, it seems a bug with the contacts server is grouping everyone by borderland color (SoS BL and BG BL are both the Green Borderlands in their matches for this week), and then reporting it back as the borderlands of the local match – unless they’re on a competing server, where it reports the location as World vs. World.

tl;dr: I see my TC friend in SoS BL on my contacts, when he’s really fighting on BG BL, another Green Borderlands map.

I would certainly like to see this bug fixed.

Isn’t the bug more that it shouldn’t be showing you where your friends on other servers are at all when they are in WvW?

Sertsac.4712:

Isn’t the bug more that it shouldn’t be showing you where your friends on other servers are at all when they are in WvW?

I am tending to agree with this.
Maybe just changing anyone in WvW to display location as World Vs World rather than what borderland would fix both the location issue in the OP plus any other negative effects that arise with displaying the actual map name.

There is no problem seeing which borderlands players are on if they aren’t in your matchup. It isn’t as though you can send your server’s zerg to go fight them. This was implemented correctly for some time up until just a few months ago, so I know it can be made to work properly.