Guild Wars 2

Dear Mr Arena Net,

I know this won’t happen over night, but what would be the chances of introducing a guild commander Icon. One that you can put on and only guild members will be able to see it. I am one of the WVW leaders for my guild. Before the latest patch we would usually use the cltrl+T which was okay i guess, but now with the new patch i often cull out losing this target and meaning it is hard for my guys to get a target on me. This means that we often get quite a few “Randoms” running with us, which can quite often give away some of our attacks, for example, I wills end 4 people forward to attack the gate and the next minute a random will appear and go attack as well giving orange cross swords, which is very very frustrating.

Now i know some people will say, why don’t you just flick commander icon on during in combat and flick it off when you’re not in combat. This is partly because well, hey i’m a little lazy and although only 2 clicks, i’d rather not have to do it every time we hit combat. The second reason is because it means my guild members can constantly see where i am on the map and in some cases, we start to cull out even when stud in our Spawn area.

PS – I know what happens when some of these posts are wrote about something, somebody will disagree then it will all kick off. I don’t want this hear please

Thank you

If you guys are using VoiP (TS3, Vent, Mumble), then this shouldn’t be a problem.

As for the randoms following you around, you just have to work around them. If you send 4 dudes to clear out guards and see a random going with them, call 1 of your guys off.

We use mumble, but it isn’t always clear where we are. And atm we’re also getting a lot of stick, we’re playing Gandara and apparently our skill sucks because we constantly out number the enemy because of the people following.

And believe me we do, we have tried everything with the randoms following, but beleive me, they’re having none of it

I like the method that another game uses, where you can set the icon target on multiple things. For example, you can use a yellow star for the leader, and a blue diamond for the first target to take down, second target is a half moon, etc. etc.

This method is nice, as everyone in the party can then easily see where different targets are. In a perfect world, they would also show up on the minimap as well.

Caedus.6571:

If you guys are using VoiP (TS3, Vent, Mumble), then this shouldn’t be a problem.

100% agree with more grouping systems.

Using VoIP AND using an in game system to coordinate multiple groups is 10x more effective than VoIP alone. Our guild always runs with VoIP and the times we use the commander and squad system our effectiveness as a unit dramatically increases.

Often having the commander pin up for guild events/groups or specific objectives causes problems. When you have the pin up you are expected to lead. I see people and guilds getting harassed for “not leading properly” when they are simply trying to coordinate their groups.

In this day of MMO’s it seems silly to me that our only option for running private multiple groups in WvW is using a 3rd party VoIP program. It’s shameful.

You need some kind of guild upgrade or free system for 2-4 groups to coordinate similar to the commander and squad system. A way that only people actually IN the raid/squad can see the pin, so it won’t interfere with the current 100gp commander pin system.