Guild Wars 2

I’m contemplating saving up for a commander tag and I can’t choose between Guardian or Warrior. I prefer warrior over guardian but I always see guardians as commanders. I was just wanted to know your guys opinion on which is more effective. I know the Healway guardian is nice but how does it compare to the support Shout healing warrior build.

My advice would be to not waste your money on a commander tag at all. At this point most servers have more commander tags then you can shake a skritt at, so unless you got a large guild that will follow you, or a good rep on your server odds will be you will play with it for a few days to a week, and get tired of no on following you (if you don’t know how to command already) and you will be setting there in LA with your tag up and nothing to do.

Just my two coppers.

To offer another perspective:

I don’t think the commander tag and the class or build you play have anything to do with each other. When you lead, you do so because you say stuff in chat. All classes need to work together as a team using the game mechanics – if everyone stacks on a boss, does it really matter whether it was the warrior or ranger or necro who said “everyone stack on me”?

I assume people go for the commander tag on their heavy armour character more often because it “feels natural” and they feel the commander is commandrisher when looking like a knight.

That’s my experience anyway (which is limited to PvE – it might be different in WvW).

Whichever class you are most comfortable with honestly .

I’d go for whichever you use most.

Especially if there’s one you’re more likely to use for WvW, guild missions, and large scale open-world content like Tequatl or Invasion events. Because thats the kind of thing where having a commander would come in useful.

I put my commander tag on my mesmer rather than my warrior.

At first I regretted putting it on my mesmer.

Then I realized I mainly just regretted buying a commander tag.

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To offer another perspective:
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I assume people go for the commander tag on their heavy armour character more often because it “feels natural” and they feel the commander is commandrisher when looking like a knight.

That’s my experience anyway (which is limited to PvE – it might be different in WvW).

This made me lol pretty hard… :P