Guild Wars 2

In the midst of a PUG group fight, it is hard for a commander to be able to communicate with his soldiers and give directions/orders because they have to stop what they’re doing and type out the message. The commander needs an efficient way to give directions without having to stop mid-fight or having to type every little thing out. I think there should be somewhat of a commander skillbar. Where the skills don’t actually deal damage or cc but change the icon above the commander’s head to an icon that represents what the commander wan’ts his troops to be doing. For example, when just moving to a location a “follow me” icon above him, or a sword icon which for attack, shield for defend, hammer for build, flag for rally, etc. This icon wouldn’t change on the mini map or main map but when the commander’s character is visible on your screen. This skillbar could be right above your character’s F1-F4 skill icons and could be hotkeyed if desired.

Commander’s work very hard for their servers, putting in a ton of hours and they always have to type every detail to their followers. This would be a nice tool for Commander’s and take some of the load off.

Let me know what you all think.

This is brilliant

You could just download Mumble or something similar.

Voice comms is the way to go imo lol

Tricare.2946:

You could just download Mumble or something similar.

The problem is you will never have everyone in vent/TS/mumble at the same time. Decent in-game systems are needed, which we don’t have atm.

Great suggestions were posted here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Collaborative-Development-Commander-System/page/14#post3343318

Commander and squad changes are coming but we have no idea which of the changes we discussed, how they are being implemented or when they are being implemented. GW2 has a very limited and sub-par grouping system for more than 5 people and C&S needs priority now that EOTM is coming out.

Good idea for those that refuse to get on voice comms.

In my server, you can advertise the server voice comms all day in map chat and get 20 people at the most usually.

Also, when players get tunnel vision and don’t look at chat it’s nice to have a big icon on their screen that catches there attention.

You people overestimate the commander tag. Most of the people in zergs that don’t log onto voice comms are just following the big group of people in front of them. That’s it.

Adding anything special to the tag wouldn’t do much. I’d rather they just add guild tags where only guildies can see.

Tricare.2946:

You people overestimate the commander tag. Most of the people in zergs that don’t log onto voice comms are just following the big group of people in front of them. That’s it.

Adding anything special to the tag wouldn’t do much. I’d rather they just add guild tags where only guildies can see.

Your lack of faith is disturbing.

Give the commander’s targeting icon an orange colour that can be seen by everyone on their server. So people can target the commander, and attack/ build whatever the commander suggests. You would be able to pinpoint direction ahead of time, etc.

Have it so if you join the commander’s squad, you only see that commander’s targeting icon.

katniss.6735:

Give the commander’s targeting icon an orange colour that can be seen by everyone on their server. So people can target the commander, and attack/ build whatever the commander suggests. You would be able to pinpoint direction ahead of time, etc.

Have it so if you join the commander’s squad, you only see that commander’s targeting icon.

The amount of focus fire this would end up in… commander would just be standing on the sidelines basically directing nukes on single players.. don’t like that idea much…

OP idea is insanely good tho!

Commander targeting would be pretty cool, but being able to calls commands on the fly would be much more helpful IMO.