Guild Wars 2

Change the current Commander to something like “Squadron Commander”, and add another tag that’s something like “Group Commander”.

The “Group Commander” could be a lower level rank, that would cost less (say 50g), but also require a pre-req based on the group you’ll be commanding (ie, the tag works only in outside PvE or WvW depending on which rank you obtain). For instance, the WvW tag would require a minimum WvW Rank of 25, whereas the PvE would require a small “personal story line” set of quests.

The “Group Commander” would only display a different commander icon to this in the party, not publicly (so that the Squadron commander has superior authority in the case of WvW). This lower ranking commander could also only command half the number of people as the “Squadron Commander”. In the case of WvW, the lower ranking commander could then be used for a smaller strike team, whereas the main zerg would follow the public commander tag around.

This would also benefit medium size guilds who would like to complete guild events, who don’t need (nor want) the higher rank tag.

There are many times we enter WvW or do our guild events, and we have 8-10 show up. I’d gladly shell out the 50g and even do the pre-reqs to obtain this secondary rank commander…but refuse to do the current one (not because of the gold, but because I don’t want a public icon).