Guild Wars 2

So I’ve been thinking about this a little since Colin’s interview, and something just occurred to me as I was playing. A commander stepped in front of me during an Orr event and lag hit, and his commander icon changed from blue to a brilliant green. It happened so quickly though, I thought he had a green icon… followed him and realized that was not the case.

Long story short, have you guys considered giving commanders different color icons to differentiate between them? Obviously if you play the game enough it becomes apparent that not all commanders are created equal. In fact, of the 40 or so different Commanders I’ve seen, there’s only 3 or 4 who’s names I can even remember enough to know that, this guy is worth following, this guy is terrible, etc….

With the 100g pricetag being the only real requirement, there’s no real “hard stop” from a crappy player grabbing commander status… just a price tag, as Colin noted in that interview I’m talking about.

Perhaps you could use the idea that Colin had in that interview, and let people vote on which Commanders of the community to rank up to different colors, or perhaps (and maybe this is even better), create WvW prowess achievements as a ranking system for Commanders?

Just a thought! I’m not even a commander myself, but unfortunately as the system exists now, it invites a certain “Commander is just 100g for a blue triangle” mentality among the player base.

Honestly, i hardly see any commanders, maybe one or two on a 3-4 hour gaming session during the day, but that’s about it. it seems that a 100g pricetag is prettymuch an ideal requirement.

Problem I see is, 100g as a limiting factor has no bearing on the quality of someone’s leadership.

Or just add a grouping system for multiple groups that you have some control over. A lot of times the “bad” commanders are not actually trying to lead, they are just trying to coordinate multiple groups. People are using the commander system for things OTHER than leading the zone.

They need a grouping system that allows multiple groups to coordinate better without attracting the entire server to the squad.