Guild Wars 2

When can we expect to get large sized party system in GW2 ? What exactly is the point of having a guild if its barely possible to organize people when everyone is segmented into 5-player parties ?
Guys , we need raid sized party system (and please don’t mention current commander party thing , its useless ). I want to see other 20 people from my party on my minimap/map so we can meet up , organize and move like proper WvW game should be played.
What we do right now is trying to coordinate on voice/chat where noone really knows where other people are outside those other 4 in party. It’s not something a 2012 pvp/wvw vw game should have as a drawback.

There is one in the game. You need a squad commander to do so however.

There is , but its useless since u dont see anyone else in squad on map/minimap or in party window (healthbars) , other than leading commander’s minimap icon. So its pretty much same as 5-men party except u got that extra chat.

I don’t really want to see (proper) squads for PvE, since nothing requires such organization at the moment.

Seriously, they need to buff Dragons’ difficult scaling.
All dragons basically get zerged without any trouble. Teq and Shatterer just melt under the pressure of a couple dozen level80s in full gear. It’s not even fun. It’s just an appointment to stand somewhere and spam senselessly.

But I would like to see them improve the squad-system for WvW.
Squad HP bars, Squad leader privileges, such as group-assignment, group-labeling, header announcements that show up like the “New Event Nearby” notice, so squad members notice commands more easily.

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I don’t really want to see (proper) squads for PvE, since nothing requires such organization at the moment.

Seriously, they need to buff Dragons’ difficult scaling.
All dragons basically get zerged without any trouble. Teq and Shatterer just melt under the pressure of a couple dozen level80s in full gear. It’s not even fun. It’s just an appointment to stand somewhere and spam senselessly.

But I would like to see them improve the squad-system for WvW.
Squad HP bars, Squad leader privileges, such as group-assignment, group-labeling, header announcements that show up like the “New Event Nearby” notice, so squad members notice commands more easily.

Pretty much nailed the basic features we need there. There is so much suggestions on this forum about people wanting the implementation of large sized organized squads, something seen before in games like WAR, WoW, Silkroad(game is over 8 years old), Aion… only to name a few. It would make a perfect sense to have that party system as something we’re not even supposed to ask for, since its such a basic feature.
Let’s not forget , this is GUILD Wars 2, but other than guild panel UI, we lack so much basic things.

We’ve often talked about this in our guild, we run weekly events in WvW and PvE and always have to create 2 or 3 small groups which is a pain as the groups can get split up and not know where each other is.

We would like a a Guild Commander type group which acts just like a normal group but with much more capacity maybe 20 people.

We decided that it would another good guild option to have and should be added to the items you can get with guild influence.

I also agree with this. I actually think almost everything about the commander system is very poorly designed, from the arbitrary 100g requirement, to it being character-based, to the fact that only commanders can see other players’ supply, to the fact that joining a squad doesn’t really seem to… do… anything… at all. It supposedly gives a chat channel, but I’ve never seen this used because it’s almost always better to talk to your entire team instead.

However, I don’t see them abolishing the commander system any time soon, and I also don’t see them adding this alongside squads since it would undermine and interfere with them. Instead, I think this idea should be used to improve squads. Basic features like being able to see everyone’s health is great, but here are some other features I’d like to see.

Allow commanders to assign players within a squad to groups, much like the warband system in Warhammer Online. There is a window that shows all 40 members of the warband divided into 8 groups of 5, and the leader can drag and drop players between groups.

Letting the commander assign different waypoints to different parties would be very, very good for doing things like assaulting a tower, keeping pressure on another, and sending a small team to capture supply camps. As it is the only way to do that is to either coordinate with several commanders (not really feasible on many servers) or just… ask nicely.

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Yes, that’s exactly what we need: Enlarged groups (at least for PvE & WvW). Not sure about the number of 20, could also be 10 -12 i.m.h.o.
So far the group experience in GW 2 in close to not existing, due to a limit of 5. Why are there Guilds if you cannot keep them in a proper group together? Right now it feels like you are herding a bunch of mosquitos.
I don’t care about the group size in dungeons. They seemed to be designed for the current group size. I don’t ask to change that. But in PvE and WvW the group size is definitely too small to be enjoyable as a group. Playing solo is good, playing as a group (other than randoms that happen to be next to you by coincidence) not so much.