Guild Wars 2

Let me start off saying this is mainly focused on how to and who obtain this status.

At this moment my view on commanders is “People that bought a cosmetic map icon”. The idea behind the 100 gold to get the icon is to show off that you have a reasonable idea of how guild wars 2 and world vs world work, that you promote yourself as an actual leader and have some tactical insight.

The main problem is 100 gold does not really resemble any of this. People grind PvE and jump into world vs world running around with the least of tactical approaches. So why not make it a bit harder to get commander? Just so it’s only worth getting for people that really want to be it in the first place.

My idea is involving badges of honor in obtaining Commander, I think everyone knows why but to clarify; these badges can only be obtained inside world vs world and it takes some effort to get a lot, this would “force” people to actually do world vs world before becoming a commander. Also I wouldn’t mind seeing the level requirement go up as well, this is currently level 11. Would I want to follow someone that did that much in this game? you literally get exp from every muscle you move so getting level 80 really isn’t that much of a task.

How this will be implemented is not me to decide but I would go for a mystic forge recipe, people would still need 100 gold to get 1 part but need <gift of the commander? / 1000 badges or more?> as well.

I thought the main point of it was a money sink as actual commanders play WvW with their guilds who already know who the leaders are and the pugs usually just follow large groups anyway.

Commander should be bought by Badges of Honor, not for 100g.

TheUnNamedHero.4167:

I thought the main point of it was a money sink as actual commanders play WvW with their guilds who already know who the leaders are and the pugs usually just follow large groups anyway.

Yes but the server I am playing on for example has no WvW orientated guilds… so everyone follows commanders by default even when half of them has no clue what they’re actually doing.

I wish they had implemented a system where you also buy commanders with like 1000 tokens to ensure that the commander knows what wvw is. The 100 gold is fine with it, so that not everyone will have it and guilds can fund an officer to have it.