Guild Wars 2

I cannot think of a better word than Rank at the moment to describe what I am suggesting. It can be word. What I want is for players to know how good the commander they are following instead of blindly following someone who has no idea what they are doing.

Clarification:
This is solely from a foot soldier point of view. I don’t know what the commander can do when they activate the icon in WvW. I follow them because more players playing together have better outcome in a WvW situation when the commander knows what they are doing. Unless I’ve been playing with them for a bit, I will have no clue if they are really good or they just have a glorify icon above them.

Will a commander ranking bring more good then bad to WvW? How shall they receive this ranking?

Couple problems with this.

1.) It’ll encourage people to only follow highly ranked commanders. And when certain commanders dominate the commanding during the day, they are going to strech far ahead of others. People would rather follow the rank 10 than the rank 1, when both could be equally skilled.

2.) Which brings me to my next point, you don’t know how much experience this person has at rank 1. For instance, Moorta from deso recently got his guardian to 80 and bought a commander tag on it. He has days upon days of commanding experience on his main, but he’d be rank 1 on his alt. His commanding experience is the same, but people will only see a number.

3.) New commanders NEED people to follow them so they can learn what they are doing. Commanding is a trial and error experience. You don’t just turn a tag on and learn how to command, it takes practice.

So think you should follow whomever is commanding a map. it’s helps everyone if you let someone lead. If you don’t like something they are doing, whisper them. My guild always says that if you think a commander is doing something incorrectly, let them know. Be polite. Ect. It helps them to be better commanders.

Thornbrush pretty much explained all the disadvantages of that idea lol.

Jmikeydarby.3105:

Couple problems with this.

1.) It’ll encourage people to only follow highly ranked commanders. And when certain commanders dominate the commanding during the day, they are going to strech far ahead of others. People would rather follow the rank 10 than the rank 1, when both could be equally skilled.

2.) Which brings me to my next point, you don’t know how much experience this person has at rank 1. For instance, Moorta from deso recently got his guardian to 80 and bought a commander tag on it. He has days upon days of commanding experience on his main, but he’d be rank 1 on his alt. His commanding experience is the same, but people will only see a number.

3.) New commanders NEED people to follow them so they can learn what they are doing. Commanding is a trial and error experience. You don’t just turn a tag on and learn how to command, it takes practice.

So think you should follow whomever is commanding a map. it’s helps everyone if you let someone lead. If you don’t like something they are doing, whisper them. My guild always says that if you think a commander is doing something incorrectly, let them know. Be polite. Ect. It helps them to be better commanders.

Yes, potentially good commanders do need people to follow them and they do need people to tell them when they are bad. But they have to help themselves to get help from the players.

It is also true some players will know a good commander from a bad one, but most time they do not, I called it the lemmings syndrome. It is true, some commanders will become better over time and it is also true some don’t get better at all.

You know how many people voice up when there’s a bad commander? Zero or maybe just me. You know why? Because you will get slaughter, you will be alienated if you voice up against a commander. To make matter worse, players actually praise them … when they were lead to their doom on multiple occassions (like 90% of the time), over a period of a week (that I know of), they also run away to escort Dolyak calling players to defend the fort when enemies are at the gate. They also have a zerg filled with supply, yet never build any siege or repair any walls. If a commander is behaving that way, I am suspecting that they are spy. If someone is purposely making things worse, they should not have people following them at all.

Jmikeydarby.3105:

1.) It’ll encourage people to only follow highly ranked commanders. And when certain commanders dominate the commanding during the day, they are going to strech far ahead of others. People would rather follow the rank 10 than the rank 1, when both could be equally skilled.

Shouldnt like… social aspects, team spirit and server communication come in and moderate this?

Like the rank 10 commander saying “oh hey I already have 50 men in my zerg, can some go join that rank 1 that’s only followed by an ugly pet and an even uglier ranger?”.

Either way, skill will have nothing to do with rank, since it will only be a measure of how little you exist IRL.

Dawdler.8521:

Shouldnt like… social aspects, team spirit and server communication come in and moderate this?

Like the rank 10 commander saying “oh hey I already have 50 men in my zerg, can some go join that rank 1 that’s only followed by an ugly pet and an even uglier ranger?”.

Either way, skill will have nothing to do with rank, since it will only be a measure of how little you exist IRL.

‘Team spirit, /cheer! But wait, you want me to go with that newer commander who isn’t taking a tower every 5 minutes? Nah, I’m good here, someone else will get that.’

What you said about the rank, yeah – I know plenty of good commanders (with and without icons) who might only be on for a few hours a day, but are particularly effective when they are on. A few hours a day will never be able to compete in rank with a worse commander who plays 12 hours a day every day.

jamesigall.5938:

‘Team spirit, /cheer! But wait, you want me to go with that newer commander who isn’t taking a tower every 5 minutes? Nah, I’m good here, someone else will get that.’

Yes that would be the point. Someone else probably has more team spirit than you and will join him, it all adds up in the end

I see now, the problem isn’t with ranking , but HOW/Base on what, they can be rank …. /sigh. Anyway, I hope there’s a way this can be remedied.