Guild Wars 2

I did a search for commander related posts, and did not find this, but it probably does exist as a topic somewhere.

My guild is trying to save for the commander’s title for our leader as we see it as a nice to have feature for organizing our PvE activities and WvW activities. For those that don’t see a PvE use, my guild does weekly zone raids to help players get zone completion, or just do group dynamic events. The commander functionality acts much like raid functionality in other games and is a communication tool for working in large groups. Guilds are hubs for groups of players that wish to play with each other, and frequently exceed 5 players (the current max party size without the commander title).

At the moment the commander functionality costs an obscene 100 gold and is only unlocked on the character that uses it. So, even if we get one tome for our guild, it forces our leader to play on one character whenever we do large group activities (if we want to use the commander functionality), and our leader to be there for every activity.

It is our opinion that the tome/functionality should be moved to a guild unlock that is purchased through influence. After unlocking it at any point guild members of a guild designated rank can assign someone as the commander through the guild interface and that individual can form a squad. Allow additional commander slots to be purchased with influence for larger guilds. As a guild we don’t care if others see us on the map as commanders, but see this as a tool useful for forming large groups that can see and communicate with each other easier for our guild activities.

Since many people have unlocked the commander’s title for themselves at the 100 gold cost, some method of refunding these players is necessary for such a change.

Yeah great suggestion.

Something similar was suggested back during the BWE1. Having a "Guild"Commander" upgrade that once completed can be transferred or assigned to anyone in the guild that’s online. This would only be visible to people in your guild and you could still have regular Commander’s Compendium for people who want to pay the 100gp.

This would cut down on multiple commander icons on the map as “guild commanders” aren’t visible to people outside the guild. It would also give guilds a way to group up over 5 people.

Lots of great stuff posted above how to improve the entire squad and commander system and no real changes since BWE1.

No I’d make it that Guild Commanders (rename to Generals as not to confuse the 2) are visible on the WvWvW map for these reasons:
1; It will give the guild they represent status
2; Will state that this player has the backing of his guild rather than be a brainless cash monkey as some of them are

I wouldn’t have a problem if this was simply visible to the guild only, for a couple reasons.

1: Won’t clutter up the WvW map with 50 icons.
2: Doesn’t take anything away from those people that have already purchased the Commander’s Compendium for 100gp.
3: MOST IMPORTANTLY – allows guilds to actually have a way to group with more than 5 players and do things AS A GUILD. Having a transferable guild commander benefits the entire guild, not single players.

EnoLive.2367:

No I’d make it that Guild Commanders (rename to Generals as not to confuse the 2) are visible on the WvWvW map for these reasons:
1; It will give the guild they represent status
2; Will state that this player has the backing of his guild rather than be a brainless cash monkey as some of them are

You raise good points. If done it’d be nice if your guilds icon showed on the map instead of the standard commander icon. However, that could take up valuable bandwidth.