Guild Wars 2

Today I was playing around and I noticed something. More and more commanders are popping up. Randomly walking around in lions arc or in WvW.

It got my thinking, 2-3 months from now, what will commanders be like? What about a year?

It cost 100g, and anyone could be it. Im afraid im going to go into wvw and see 10+ commanders just walking around. Same with outside of WvW.

Do you think it will eventually get out of hand and should it be regulated or install some kind of different way of getting it?

It’s already happening, 10 commanders on one map.

They should just make it harder to get in general.

Doesn’t really matter much. Folks tend to work with one or two favourites because they’re proven and are trusted. And they tell their friends who’s best to follow, etc…

That’s not to say there isn’t room for more, but only time and track record determines whether to follow or not. It’s like a vetting process I guess.

Jayne.9251:

Doesn’t really matter much. Folks tend to work with one or two favourites because they’re proven and are trusted. And they tell their friends who’s best to follow, etc…

That’s not to say there isn’t room for more, but only time and track record determines whether to follow or not. It’s like a vetting process I guess.

or the zergs just follow the shiny. which has been proven.

But Zergs learn over time that some shineys get your killed, and other shineys get you karma, and badges, and points.

Plus commander tags can be turned on and off. Most people learn eventually to turn them off if they dont actually want to command.

Having 50 people ask you where do we go? what do we do now? you arnt leading rabblerabble tends to make people with tags find out how to turn it off pretty quickly if they dont feel like leading at the moment

Jan.4830:

But Zergs learn over time that some shineys get your killed, and other shineys get you karma, and badges, and points.

I agree. Most people would know within a few moments if someone is worth following. If not, then they can learn after they get killed a few times.

Seems like new wvw’ers will follow any commander. People who do it regularly know which commanders to follow.

People choose who they want to follow… No matter how many shiny mark are on the map.. I’ve seen non-commanders do more for the server than the commanders themselves…

Sometimes there are too many commanders and sometimes not enough. Not enough commanders usually happens on EB on my server, especially late night. And then sometimes to have 3 commanders in EB all defending durios with the wall down while we lose ever other fortified tower.

I think the 100g tag is a fair price and works as intended. It doesn’t make you any different than any one, it just let’s you play the game in a different way. W3 is more like an rts or moba, only with less predictable minions\ troops. Unless your thinking old rts days like age of empires where u almost have to yell at your halbrediers not to attack the swordsman or the castle.

What I would like to see is some sort of elected commander icon, where at the end of the month, the community can vote on a player to receive a temporary commander icon. This would be cool because it would give others the opportunity to command who may not have the time or money to get the icon, but may deserve it. The elected commander could do work with the militia well guilds carry on with their objectives.

I would also like to see different ranks.

People favor some commander over others. I’m a commander but I don’t have it on all the time, I usually turn it off when there’s at least two or three commanders in the BL already.

But like i said before, people will favor some commanders over another. I know i have people who iam.

When i don’t have my commander on I follow certain commanders that i know what they are doing, I’ve seen a couple today that i’ve never seen before, all they did was run around with the other commanders not doing anything.

Personally, it shouldn’t cost money at all, you should have to prove it to your server, and each person who applies for commander should be put into the poles, if say 7/10 of the server votes yes for a person, then they get the tag.