Guild Wars 2

Hey in HoT will Squads, or grouping larger than 5 people, be made baseline and not Commander only feature?

As far as I know, the squad system is remaining the same upon the release of Heart of Thorns. Squads are there to help commanders keep tabs on how many players are alive or dead.

In regular PvE, having a feature like that will likely have little use, so I doubt it will become baseline, although the option of grouping larger than 5 without tagging up would be a relatively nice addition to keep tabs on your group (for example, your lane at the Vinewrath, or a defence group at a Tequatl turret, though, most organizing will already be tagged up there so that would be rendered moot).

Similarly, grouping with more than 5 people might become a thing with their unannounced “challenging group content” with Heart of Thorns, with a possible raid-esque form of content in some way, but I am speculating there.