Guild Wars 2

as the title says. please give commanders a separate “high priority” queue so that they don’t have to wait 2 hours to get into WvW (i’m not a commander myself). if a “normal” player wants to plop down 100 gold to get into WvW faster, so be it

I would agree if a commander tag was earned in WvW and not just given to anyone with 100g.

If most people used commander tag in wvw instead of just posing in lions arch basically saying look at me I’ve got enough gold to waste on a tag then yeah such a system would be a great idea. Although having said that there are always people in wvw with tags but can’t be bothered to put them on and to give these people priority over other players is completely wrong.
Also it’s better if there is only one tag showing at any time in a certain map. To give another commander who won’t tag up for that reason priority over another player is also wrong.
Oh I agree with Dreadforce when he says a tag should be earnt through wvw experience and not by paying 100g for it

a commander should earn his/her tag, not buy it.
the 100g is nothing to farmers but way to much for casuals, why should a casual who has allot of strategic experience be less then someone who has a strategy of a 4 year old but has plenty of gold?

and about the priority, as it currently is, commanders are worth less then the dung on the street.
wait in line like everybody else.

Its to late now alot of people would get upset and there would be no commanders in WvW but there should have been 2 tags one for WvW you have to earn and one for pve that you pay for.

No. Your not special because you spent 100g. I have a Commander tag and I do not think I am so special that I deserve to cut in line, and neither should you.

Nah. Every WvWr who really wants to play would just then buy a tag and you’d still end up with commanders being in queue. That, and once a map is full already, no spot would open up until at least 1 player leaves or crashes so you still could have a long queue, commander or not. Besides, when you get 2 or more commanders all into any map there is already tension as to who will be leading and what will be done. Too many chiefs; not enough Indians. The real issue is having a queue for WvW.

I’d counter suggest that at minimum, there should be some WvW skirmish maps (aka overflow) where players from all worlds are randomly placed into teams for brief 15-30-60 minute matchups while waiting for their primary WvW queue to pop. These would not affect the primary WvW matchup’s score, but would be individually scored just as would any PvP matchup.

This isn’t a good idea. 100g is not that much. If you let people with commander pins get in WvW quicker or bypass the suppression system (as mentioned in the WvW thread) its going to cause more problems than it solves.

Even in T1, we don’t have problems finding a commander. If we can just get one person to keep the zerg organized and fill in until a more experienced commander joins, we are happy.

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I’d counter suggest that at minimum, there should be some WvW skirmish maps (aka overflow) *snip

if you look up arenanet’s official channel on youtube, there’re plans for an “edge of the mists”. i guess that makes my suggestion even less likely to happen

hmm, this idea probably wasn’t very well-thought out. as an add-on suggestion (probably suggested elsewhere), make different commander types for pve, wvw and pvp and have them cost gold, badges and glory respectively. or maybe they could make a queue counter and show how many places you have to wait for to get in