Guild Wars 2

As of now, the rewards for Badges of Honor are lacking. Why not have commanders compendium as a reward?

For all we know, someone could be a PvE focused player, buy the commander title, and then jump into wvw as a commander with no experience.

If someone has earned 1000 Badges of honor, then they’ve obviously spent a lot of time in wvw and are most likely experienced enough to lead. Also, if you spend most of your time in wvw, you don’t make anywhere near as much money than if you were to just farm dungeons and its a lot harder to get that commander title.

That’s a lie. I got my Gift of Battle before taking WvW seriously or even getting into it. I didn’t know what anything was, except for a zerg (which I rarely took part of). To get my badges, I would run around, gather omnomberries, gather orichalcum, do the jump puzzle, get killed, tag an enemy or two, then go dungeon some more. If commander’s compendium was 1000 badges of honor, I, and a lot more people, would run around with it and pretend like we know what to do.

If you want to be a commander, you should work for it. Also, they added more rewards to gain with the badges of honor (namely exotics with stats of your choice).

Yes, you can get rabid, berserker, soldier and a few more EXOTIC armors with badges. You can also get some PvE weapon/armor skins with them. Be wary, though, they all cost gold AND badges, too.

That’s a lie. I got my Gift of Battle before taking WvW seriously or even getting into it. I didn’t know what anything was, except for a zerg (which I rarely took part of). To get my badges, I would run around, gather omnomberries, gather orichalcum, do the jump puzzle, get killed, tag an enemy or two, then go dungeon some more. If commander’s compendium was 1000 badges of honor, I, and a lot more people, would run around with it and pretend like we know what to do.
If you want to be a commander, you should work for it.

Lets go over some points about saving up gold:
- 99% of the actions you do in the game result in earning money
For example:
- killing a mob (chance)
- opening a pouch (chance)
- completing an event
- completing a heart (1-2s)
- map completion
- completing the daily (5s)
- completing the monthly
- killing a boss in a dungeon (12-15s)
- completing a dungeon (26s)
- selling junk
- selling on the trading post
- playing the market
- trading gems into gold
- and lets not forget gold farmers

Now lets go over some points about Badges of Honor:
- Only obtainable in wvw
- They are not a 100% drop
- When badges of honor do drop, you’re not guaranteed to get 2.
- Only enemy players and camp leaders/tower lords drop them
- Completing the jump puzzle will award badges but you are open to attack from enemy players while doing it.

… So you’re gonna tell me that you don’t have to work for badges? Now that’s a lie.

You may have casually gotten badges while gathering materials and maybe you got really lucky and every person you tagged happened to drop 2 badges. I don’t know… The point is that you had to spend time in wvw.

I feel it should be tied to the future designs of acheivement points. I think they should figure out how to separate WvW acheivements from all the rest of them and it should require a specific acheivement level, or whatever in WvW acheivements to get them. That is guaranteed to involve knowing something about WvW, because it requires you to have taken and defended many assets throughout the zones.

This should not be gold based, it should be achieved through badges or rank

Yes! Thank you Goloith

I agree with Goloith, it should not be gold based but then they would also need to balance out a number of badges or other wvw related currency that would take a good amount of wvwing to get, 1000 definitely is quite low.

It was just an example. Balancing is something better left to others

Badges of Honor should be the only way to be a commander, and they should be for a lot more than 1,000 badges.

This has been suggested since day 1 and I just can’t believe it hasn’t been implemented.

There are other uses for Commander’s badges besides WvW. I don’t ever display mine in WvW because I know that I am not a WvW commander. But, I do use it for guild events, for creating squads to simulate alliance chat, for other things besides WvW. To say that they should only be able to be obtained within WvW or that they should only be obtained with Badges of Honor is rather short-sighted.

Getting commander is too easy. I’m relatively new to the game and i plan on getting commander. but i have played around 50 hours of wvw, and i’m continuing to play it for most of my time on this game, because i want the world vs world armor. I believe commander should come with time played on wvw, or wvw level. For BoH, BoH need to have an increased drop chance. Now i could do the jump puzzles for each map daily. But 80% of the time there being camped, and it becomes extremely difficult to complete the jump puzzle to get the BoH. Maybe an increased drop chance of 5-10% for BoH.

Run five characters through all three JPs puzzles everyday. Badges flow easy peasy.

What does it matter how someone got the icon? Don’t follow bad commanders, regardless of how they got their title.

Badges of Honor should not be required to buy a Commanders title. An alternative to 100g? Sure. But the Commanders title is highly usable in PvE.

Aye.8392:

There are other uses for Commander’s badges besides WvW. I don’t ever display mine in WvW because I know that I am not a WvW commander. But, I do use it for guild events, for creating squads to simulate alliance chat, for other things besides WvW. To say that they should only be able to be obtained within WvW or that they should only be obtained with Badges of Honor is rather short-sighted.

That’s where it would be up to Anet to implement something along the lines of a ‘Guild Commander’ tag instead of using the WvW tag. Something that officers of the guild would get through some form of guild currency. That way the other very important uses of a commander tag aren’t lost if they do decide to make it WvW exclusive.
I like the 1000 badge idea but am torn because tying it to the WvW achievements would be even better. Maybe Anet could do a little of both.