Tag Up!
Which is true, but so silly, even kittened. All the events are visible on the map and don’t require anything but participation. Why people consider map without commanders a dead end is beyond me…
I don’t like to tag up unless I have somewhat clear idea what is going on. So far I have only learned to do fairly well events around Jaka Itzel area. Also sometimes around Maguuma’s Breach, the very first area of HoT maps. Couple more months and I can probably manage Verdant whole brink map.
That’s the thing, you don’t need to know anything to display a tag. The tag is only meant to show activity. Pretty much every event is just following the event icon and killing monsters or gathering items surrounded by monsters. Tag up, get the map going in a positive direction and then once there are people being active you can think about passing that tag on to a more qualified member of your group.
But thats the problem if there are no tags you assume there are no one on the maps and in truth that are at many times quite a bit of players doing stuff and to many rely on the commander tags which where made for WvW and then many started to use them to lead groups as a way to show they where and then after that everyone assumed this and A-net played on it very much.
When we as gamers rely on something then we do not know how to do things with out the same has happened with say DPS meters before we had those we learned to be better with out same as most add on’s we did not have these for many years in online gaming and after they came around the became required even though most of the time the do not teach better play but to play by one way only. This causes people to play by this standard and nothing else the same could be said by the zerker meta and so on what ever makes things easier the better it is for many. I say lose the training wheels and start playing the games the way they were meant to be played.
Guild wars 2 offers more flexibility then any mmo out there when it comes to many things and needing these tags to do an event that just requires people to be there you could do the same with out the need for tags and call out where you need people but again to many have fallen into a need for them.