Guild Wars 2

Just a question out there to the WvW community…

What are your thoughts about the Commander Pin being Account Bound as opposed to Character Bound?

What are your thoughts on the pros and cons IF ANet could and would make that adjustment?

Thanks…

Being account bound would be nice. If you are an experienced commander you know wvw well and want to lead on another toon why shouldn’t you be able to? On the other hand they’ve made it clear they want a focus on toon specific wvw stuff. Will they do it? Probably not. It’s wastes too much of players gold for them to want to get rid of it. More gold burned more likely hood of some players buying gold via gems.

no

anet made it character bound to give some kind of meaning to the name youre following, and quite frankly i agree. name recognition is a very important factor in trust. i dont want to see a new commander every 15 minutes just because someone felt like swapping to a different class, and more importantly, i dont want to need to ask if the new tag is someone i already know or a new transfer… because i dont want to remember 8 alts for every person who wants to be a leader.

so… no.

I would say no!

my 9yr old son plays on my account, and can’t imagine what rep he’d give me if folks who didn’t know me got severely wiped & misled half the time (cause heavens knows he’s mentioned the account bound commander thing on several occasions)…

I would be in favour of a/c bound but then I support Anet by buying new char slots instead of deleting when I want to try something new. The cost of 100G on 11 toons is somewhat pricey for my pockets (both real and virtual).

ANet said that name recognition should be meaningful. After all, commanders need to have some kind of reputation. The Name Change Contract contradicts this though. If I can get together 100 gold for a pin, I can scrape together ~28 gold to change my name anyway.

Having to buy gems to change a name does bar some circumstances that an account-wide pin would create. For example, creating new characters to pin up in WvW. No matter how experienced a person is, I would not want to follow a commander that is under lvl 10. Perhaps providing second/third pins at a discounted rate would be a better idea.

Personally it should be account bound. I think it sucks that a player is punished for wanting to lead his comrades by being forced to play one character…..well if they are avid WvWer and are broke.

you could lead on level 2 upleveled char for the lulz.

Middle ground might be having the tag discounted of a certain % if you already have one.
More if you have 2, and so on.

insanemaniac.2456:

anet made it character bound to give some kind of meaning to the name youre following, and quite frankly i agree. name recognition is a very important factor in trust.

If that is the problem, Anet can always display the account ID instead. Now when I thinking of it, it would be nice to see if any commanders from my server is posting on the forums aswell.

Just give us an option to “reset” the commander book for a minor fee . You go to the WvW NPC, you say “Oh but this character is already a commander! Here is 5g, give me the book”. Commander book is back in your inventory, free to put in the bank and open on another character. You are no longer a commander.

Problem solved. I am a genius. Please give me 50g in compensation Anet.