Guild Wars 2

I’ve just posted this idea in the Game Discussion Ideas thread, but wanted to also mention it here because I think it would have the most impact in WvW. I’m also happy to take feedback (which is more practical here) and edit my suggestion as necessary.

The idea is that Anet should add a single line text box to the Create Squad function so that a brief description of the squad purpose can be entered. This text line would show when you mouse over the Commander tag on a map along with the Commanders name (which is already shown). This should help make it clearer what a squad is doing.

For example:

• “Guild Missions, closed”
• “pug, open”
• “Havoc group”
• “Guild Raid”

The text must be kept brief so it fits under the Commanders name. I think 32 characters would cover it?

The default would be an empty field which doesn’t show unless something is typed in, so squads can be easily and quickly made; but the few extra seconds to set up a description should help players see what’s going on when they join a map.

It would also make it easier to use more than one tag simultaneously. I suspect some maps do this but linking has made it harder to have an agreed convention for what the colours mean – a brief text description should resolve this.

Is there anything I’ve missed?

This has been suggested before. It would be very nice to see and honestly seem like a fairly simple WvW QoL addition. Linking has indeed made it harder to agree on what the tags mean at a glance.

Also, being able to lead squad without a tag.

Or making the commander tag visible only to members in the squad.

This would be a nice quality-of-life improvement.

My server (or my servers because of the linking) often have multiple squads on the map. Many players have tried to agree upon which color badge means which kind of squad. Blue is usually open for pugs.

There already exists a squad message field where commander can type what she likes. it shouldn’t be such a huge effort to display this message in the badge tooltip.

However the field is multi-line and some commanders may type there TeamSpeak details and such lengthy information. Adding single line edit field for the tooltip message alone is reasonable.