Guild Wars 2

Commander icons should be disabled in cities and maps that aren’t wvw related.

It creates clutter and if there are a couple of them grouped up they actually block important icons on my map.

I agree with this post, in LA today there were 5 Commanders mostly just standing around. But their icons were blocking the TP and half of the crafting stations. And its completely useless to have them appear outside of WvW apart from an kitten stroke, an option to disable them wouldn’t go amiss.

Second this.

These people are just showing off their commander titles.

There have been a growing number of people buying the commander title
recently…and I can foresee a time when LA is one heaving blue-badge mass of commanders flaunting their titles.
There’s no need for these to be displayed in cities.

Could the icon be set to being next to their name in cities only and not appear on the map? It’s an eyesore at present and impedes finding icons, such as vendors and friends.

Agreed. Commander icons should only become visible/active when in WvW.

They spent a lot of dough, I’m sure they would want to show off all the time..

I agree with this. They should only be visible inside of WvW.

Also, when there is more than one commander in a wvw map, each icon should be a different color (except red, of course). That way you would be able to keep track of them much easier.

It is a WvW thing. I don’t need nor care to see commanders in PvE

I don’t think it is worth showing the clunky blue icon outside of WvWvW , I support this thread.

Commanders are meant to have a purpose in PvE also. They are meant to be seen as leaders and tacticians for world events too. I don’t really think that is at all beneficial really. I vote to keep Commanders in WvW maps only.

Make map items lay on top of commander items, not the other way around.

an option to disable commander icons from showing up in map would be nice.

maybe as a check box in f11 options menu

Don’t need to disable them completely in PvE, just put their icons go under every other icon in PvE. They have their uses in gathering everyone in events and whatnot.

Very much in favor of disabling them for PvE situations — either entirely disabled or optional, doesn’t matter to me. I don’t care that they spent 100 gold for an icon, it doesn’t help me at all in the city (to the contrary, actually, as it obscures icons I do actually want to look for).

Instead of completely removing them from PvE content, how about a little tick box to enable or disable their presence that can be done on a per-player basis?

I can see PvE-related uses for being a Commander, such as guild-sponsored events and that sort of thing; but most of the time, it’s probably some looney just showing how rich they are … or were rather when seen in PvE content.

See my attached image. A pretty simple mockup of where the option could be. If you want to be selective of which Commanders to see and ignore, then I suppose it could be expanded to allow options to view only Commanders belonging to one of your guilds, Commanders who have X amount of kills in WvW, or even Commanders on your friends list.

Does no one realize that you can create a squad and use commander functionality in PvE? We don’t have enough cash yet but when our guild gets one you’ll see our commanders running around towns and maps. We run events regularly that could make use of this both in WvW and PvE.

It also creates an endless trollfest in /map chat every time a commander is on a map.

Ari Kagura.9182:

Instead of completely removing them from PvE content, how about a little tick box to enable or disable their presence that can be done on a per-player basis?

I can see PvE-related uses for being a Commander, such as guild-sponsored events and that sort of thing; but most of the time, it’s probably some looney just showing how rich they are … or were rather when seen in PvE content.

See my attached image. A pretty simple mockup of where the option could be. If you want to be selective of which Commanders to see and ignore, then I suppose it could be expanded to allow options to view only Commanders belonging to one of your guilds, Commanders who have X amount of kills in WvW, or even Commanders on your friends list.

This would be perfect. More choices the better imo

I’d rather have the option in the options, along with every other option tho. Other than that, its a good idea.

Does anyone know if ArenaNet has commented on this? I would really like to get those annoying “hey look at me!” commander icons off of my pve maps. Please!