Guild Wars 2

I have a good commander tag idea that shouldn’t be hard at all.
Each tag gives a specific buff that would correspond with the ideal color objective. This would encourage using specific tags for specific duties.
Red- +x% power (or what ever is attack)
Green- +25% speed and x% damage vs siege weapons ( or whatever scouting is)
Purple- + x% siege weapon efficiency (or what ever siege group would be)
Blue- +x% power, defense, and siege damage in a controlled tower of keep( or whatever defense is)
Gold- +x% drop rate ( or whatever wanderer is)
These are just ideas, and I’m welcome for more. Anet, I hope you consider this.

Wouldn’t that make some people choose commander tags just because of the color buff / scope of the buff? For ex even if ppl are wanted at Green tag for help, they will choose tags that only suit their personal needs over group needs.

I think it would devide more then to unite…and it would make the community act more selfish instead of acting united with a common goal…because u know..that’s the mentality.

People should choose tags purely because they mean “hey, it’s an organized group that needs people to succeed” That’s more then enough and it kinda works now. It even works in corelation with other tag colors which atm represent different stuff specific to that server. For ex RED is a more aggressive group while blue pops up when defense is really needed.

Of all the things that could be improved, the GOAL of the cmder tag at this moment i don’t see it as being something needed improving in the way you want it.

The buff goes for the whole squad, but yes, in the wrong hands, it would hurt. But that’s the same with most things, including the time when they colored them. People made tags everywhere, but in time it worked out. Same here, but maybe they could make it to where you can only have a certain amount of a color tag at once in each map

I like your idea, but I’m afraid I must reject it. Given that people don’t earn commander status, all this would do is become a glorified buff everyone would buy.

Commander status, while iffy already, would mean nothing because everyone and anyone who could afford it, would buy it to increase their power, speed, etc. on themselves.

It would become nothing more than self buff-botting.

If they put a limit to one each on the other hand …(except maybe green) it might work because it would force you to go into the squad( but they would also have to also put a distance buff limit on)

Even so, if it worked for the one character that has the buff, it won’t make any difference. Everyone would buy it for themselves. I know I would, and I hate the commander tags and have no intention of leading anyone anywhere.

Also, in PvP, or WvW, this effect would be devastating in the hands of a knowledgeable, and small, group.

And if it stacked?

The forums would ignite with flames.

Maybe for red, and blue it would be a buff based on your number in the squad. It also doesn’t have to be a +50%, it could be a mere 1% wich would turn the tide in a large battle

And only in WvW

Yah. 25% speed buff. I would buy one so I could drop my utility skill for that and slot in a different one as well as change out any traits that give speed buffs. It would be like having another utility skill or trait.