Guild Wars 2

I’m not particularly fond of the current way the commander book is working.
People with more money than brains, can simply buy their way into a commander role, and i don’t think this title should be able to be thrown around so easily. It should be a prestigious thing, a commander is someone you should want to follow, not simply because he’s a blue point on the map, but because he has either: earned his position in some way or he has been given his title by the server community, because of his/her role they have played in WvW.

So here is my suggestions, for the betterment of the commander title, in my view.

A commander title should be:
A title put upon 4 people (hopefully one for every BG), that lasts for two-three full time games.
The commander title, should only be bestowed on people, whom have been voted into the position. This ensures only the people who deserve to have the title, get the title, though the commander title should most likely give off more powers, but i digress.

To get into the running for these elections, you would have to put up your name, while also paying a fee of 10g+(so not everyone passing by Lion’s arch can, or will, put their name onto the running. Only people with firm backing will go for it. I.E. leaders, or trusted individuals, of big WvW guilds), onto the ballot papers in Lion’s arch. After a few days or so, the elections will begin, they’ll run a week(the week the current commander titles will have run their course) or so.

Of course, we shouldn’t take away the powers of the individual, people still should be able to make squads, possibly with a simple gold sink of 50g+(a ‘captain’ book or something), but these ‘captains’ would not be seen by everyone on the map, like the current commander books. But, they would be seen by the commander, so that the commander can communicate with, and delegate responsibility to the captains of individual squads. These captains would have all the powers of the old commander title, but would only have those powers inclusive to their squad only.

These suggestions do a few things. First, they help to build, and facilitate, more organisation inside of WvW, by the breakdown of the ‘Commander’, whom should be the leading role for the entire battleground, and the ‘captain’ who leads his squad, hopefully under orders from the commander.
Second, this helps create a community around the way a commander is chosen, and it helps get people more involved in WvW and helps make this commander someone worthy of following.

Thanks for reading.