Guild Wars 2

We need a real warband option to group up people in a squad. That means an option that works for the guild only and maybe for an alliance layer as well where you can hide eventual commander icons for anyone but these layers. Also the entire squad has to be visible to the squad on the UI and joining has to be restricted.

Right now commander is pointless and just a heat seeker because opposing servers just transfer a spy to the enemy servers with free transfer option, opens map and rely the position of all commanders over TS. Even with costly transfers this will happen.

Sure you can use that to lure enemy zergs in etc but that defeats the purpose of the commander to begin with.

So this really needs to change. We need a better squad option with visibility and join restriction layers for guild and alliance.

but, but, having a raid encourages zerging, the open group system with a commander icon on the map is a much better system to discourage zerging.

I Agree with this. Only allowing 5 Guild members in a group is crippling to Control and awareness imo. Commander is to me More Pug based control as the majority of PvP guilds use Voice chat of some sort.

a Simple solution imo would be changing the Color of Guild members in WvW on the Mini Maps

If alliances are implemented giving them a unique color also.

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but, but, having a raid encourages zerging, the open group system with a commander icon on the map is a much better system to discourage zerging.

I disagree with that. Having a commander icon on the map ENCOURAGES zerging. People look at the blue pin and flock to it. Having either a private commander system (able to hide pin) or a Raid system would allow multiple groups or medium forces to coordinate better in the numbers they want.

Most people wanting private squads are simply guilds who run multiple groups and don’t want to run in a zerg situation, but still want to use in-game grouping systems to coordinate better.

Lol this is 4 months old, but…

If you right click on a commandes and click join squad all you can see is that commanders tome and no one elses.

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Lol this is 4 months old, but…

If you right click on a commandes and click join squad all you can see is that commanders tome and no one elses.

But the commander pin is still visible to everyone else NOT in the squad. So if you wanted to do some sneaky tactics with your squad you suddenly have 40 random players flock to the pin. You have no control over the size of makup of the squad.

We need a way to completely hide the commander pin from all allies, except those in the squad…. hence a “private” squad.