Guild Wars 2

This has probably been stated before, but it never really occurred to me until a couple days ago.

Why are Commander tags 300 gold? I know answer is “A high price means only people who truly want it will buy it.” But the thing is, you could get 300 gold, tag up and lead people around WvW with no real experience.

Why not make the Commander tags only purchasable with Badges of Honor?
That way, only people who have played WvW long enough to get the Badges of Honor will be able to take command, and that way, it adds a new way to purchase the command tag if you don’t have the gold. Because, let’s face it, WvW is NOT the optimal way to accrue gold.

What if they were say, 10k Badges of Honor? What do you think?

The tags are not used exclusively in WvW. They are used a lot in PvE. This subject has been brought up many times requiring high amounts of BoH. It just won’t fly.

The ideal solution would require separating WvW Commander tags from PvE tags.

Commander tags are used more in PvE than WvW, be thankful we don’t have to grind PvE events for it lol

10K badges is quite alot of ranks and kills. Getting 300g is probably going to be far easier. It is a sizeable cost, yes (when it was 100g I thought it was insane, but you couldnt farm nearly enough gold as you can now), but its not that hard to get. Especially not if you are backed up by larger guild.

Also, getting 300g, tagging up and leading without experience would be better than no commander and 30 people afk queuing. Any commander is better than no commander. Think he is a PvE scrub that got gold from his sugardaddy? Well dont follow.

Having the option to reduce gold cost in favor for baddges would be a good idea. Like, 300g or 150g+kittentonofbadges.

it was 100g but character bound, then players complaint, then Anet bow to their request to make it account bound, and make it with options of color, but increased the price , hence the 300g.

azizul.8469:

it was 100g but character bound, then players complaint, then Anet bow to their request to make it account bound, and make it with options of color, but increased the price , hence the 300g.

Not quite accurate, you forgot the immense backlash from players because Anet wanted to make it 300g per color, ie 1200g to get them all. The community had to fight Anet with tooth and nails on this, it was nothing Anet “bowed” to originally.

I suggested this several times already. 100 gold, 5.000 badges and rank 1000+ to get commander tag at this price.