Guild Wars 2

Right now commanders mean nothing aside from some kid spent 500$ on gems and bought himself a sparkly blue dot on the map for his e- p- e- e- -n

Let’s make commanders worthwhile shall we?

Here are some ideas:

-First off, make the title EARNED and not bought, so people know a commander is someone who has PvP’d enough to know what they are doing.
-Buff siege weaponry when in the presence of a commander*
-Give a buff to everyone within radius of a commander*

*These ideas make there be a POINT to following the commander, as it is people just ignore them for the most part. Those last two ideas would bring a reason to follow the commander and do what he says as opposed to what some other scrub is saying.

Thoughts? Further ideas? Opinions?

I agree something need to be done with the tag, the 100g price tag is alright but it needs to be more. You need to have something to command I say only guild leaders and ones that the GLs appoint within guilds who have obtain a certain amount of guild points.

The fact that any scrub who can farm / scam 100g can be a commander makes it worthless in the first place. How does farming / scamming 100g make you a good WvWvW commander?

Simply, it doesn’t. There are a handful of good commanders out there who communicate well and lead well. The vast majority are useless tools hanging their kittens out for show.

On top of that I totally agree with making commanders a little more useful – but get rid of the scrubs first.

The commander tag should be earned & respected and should have value in a battle. At this stage it has neither.

My suggestion would be make the Commander book only be purchasable with Badges of Honor.

Disagree with the badges of honor suggestion. Same problem as currently exists – scrubs will just do jump puzzles endlessly (well x4 a day) to get badges.

Again – It does not mean you are a good commander.

I’m not sure of a good solution honestly – voting systems rarely work for these types of things as numbers often win out over skill in such cases.

If it stays as it is (which is one viable option) people just end up ignoring commanders because the scrubs are not worth listening to. Eventually many people will know which commanders on their server are worth listening to and actually have an impact.

Renown for guilds or individuals in WvWvW might be one way to go where at certain levels of guild renown they can appoint a commander….. Not sure really – but rewarding people for just gathering gold or badges totally devalues the commanders at the moment.

Tera had a pretty good system when it came to selecting Vanarchs, It’d be nice to see GW2 take the same approach with Commanders but with a limit on guild votes. So you could essentially run to be a commander on one of the borderlands or EB and there would be bi-weekly elections based on performance in the respective maps.

The Commander’s Compendium’s description text says “Unlock the ability to become a Commander.”, not "Unlock the ability to become a good Commander ".

Planetside – You would only gain levels in Command while you were leading groups.

People will not follow group leaders for long if they suck. Give a commander exp when people are leading. Once they attain X amount, they get the buff.

Something has to be done, that is true, the current system is beyond ridiculous and obviously no one has spent more than 5 minutes thinking about it when it was implemented.

Very soon there will be dozens of commanders online at any given point, the map will be cluttered with blue markers, no one will have any clue who is where doing what, the few commanders who actually do know what they’re doing will be lost in the forest of blue dots. Just sloppy, very sloppy.

Yeah Planetside had a really good commander system. Earning command ranks while commanding a group. Would be nice to have this linked to the size of group you can lead. Also in PS only commanders of a certain rank could talk in map chat, much better system than everyone being able to do it.

Would be simple to fit in to GW2, you gain commandXP for members of your group getting kills capping towers, defending etc

Higher command ranks could equal higher buffs etc, all the usual stuff

This is one of the areas where you don’t need game engine related changes. This is the role of the world/server community.

I agree with being rid of the 100g price tag, I mean it makes sense for Anet cause they are banking on people forking over the $500 to get the title. But what does that say about their attitude towards their players? The title needs to be EARNED through some sort of PVP statistic, not bought by the wealthy.

lol I just realized how much this mirrors American Society, where things are never earned by the wealthy, they are just bought.

Yeah get rid of cost and pay me back i’d like to it

“Commander” lol. I wonder what the US army would say if I walked into their HQ and said “Hey here’s a million bucks, make me a general!”

Until the commanders actually get some tools to lead and coordinate the battle, the commander status should be removed from all and the coin refunded. What they need to have is:

• Ability to organize the troops into fighting units, with subleaders
• Ability to draw strategic stuff into the map (might be problematic with the kitten filter)

And with this, there needs to ability to ignore a commander if you so choose.

When these are implemented, they should also implement a voting system where the players choose the commanders to lead them, instead of someone chucking up 100g and self-proclaiming themselves one.