Guild Wars 2

Arenanet – this is absolutely unacceptable. Our guild rallied together and mustered up 100 gold to get this book so we could try to better organize the guild and server in WvW. We paid the 100 gold, after having people get account locks trying to move the money around to get it to the person we wanted to get the book. He buys the book and what happens? He gets a blue icon over his head, and we can all join “squad” chat. He gets some extra things he can mark on the map. That’s it. You would expect, at the very very absolute least for 100g, that we would be able to see everyone in the squad on the map as a different color. Or even better, a separate color for each party in the squad. You guys failed on this – as it stands right now, the commander’s book is a complete rip off and serves absolutely no purpose. This needs to be fixed immediately, or I assure you will have more upset guilds, or people will not even use it at all.

Further, why would we want people to be able to freely join the squad – aren’t all of those people together anyways in team chat? Arenanet – You guys need to think this one through again. Our guild is MVP on Anvil Rock. We want our money back at this point.

Does it allow the leader (or other members) to draw on the map and all members of the squad see it?

Map drawing is an invaluable function in WvW and I wish we could have larger groups just for WvW so guild members can share this function.

So you scraped together a hundred gold without doing any research on what it actually does?

Completely second this. (I believe this will be one of the major contributing factors to the success or failure WvW.)

Devs please look at the way the party joining and organising system worked in WAR. The warband structure was the best way to organise large groups of players I have ever seen. There was also the join open ‘parties/warbands’ allowing un-guilded player or as we dubbed them pugs to join large groups of players. Guilds could close their warbands and thus control the players in the warband. You could also make parties leaders (as a warband was 4 parties) and all the rest.

Please get this kind of functionality in the grouping of players in WvW.

There should be a General for 500 gold, with a Red icon.

Have everyone join your squad. Type /squadinfo You’re welcome. The commander icon naturally organized the server. It’s use is a game changer. My guild runs 2.

This feature should do more things – some very basic quality of life things you would expect from a “raid mode”.

Just because you’re trying to be a different MMO doesn’t mean you get rid of the good things.

It should be that if you are a Commander, it adds 1 way voice comms into the game but only for the commander to speak to everyone else. How cool would that be?

No, we’re also discussing the dynamics of the feature and its effect on WvW.

Obtaining commander status via gold is the single dumbest thing i’ve seen arenanet do regarding PvP. The title should be EARNED, not purchased.

Uhm on Ruins of Surmia we have 2 Commanders…

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Obtaining commander status via gold is the single dumbest thing i’ve seen arenanet do regarding PvP. The title should be EARNED, not purchased.

I agree or if purchased then with a lot of GUILD points that you need to spend and so loosing time on upgrades.

p.s. How do you use commander markers .. it used to work in BWE’s but now it stopped.

This is such a bs…
We expected AT LEAST to be able to see warband members on the map and still thought its sick price.

Idc if this thing is for 100g or 1000g now, just give me freaking warband/raid option like in every other game (even PvE centric like Rift) so i can run with my guild members and have basic information about their possition , hp level etc.

Um. If you did any research you would know that squad commander is just a icon with a new chat. Basicly it is a pugherder.