Guild Wars 2

Understand, there is no such thing as only giving the Commander Title to those who “deserve” it. There is no test to take and no qualifications that would make everyone happy. So, we move to the next best thing – WvW experience.

The Commander’s Title requires a player to attain a total of 2000 points and 100 gold.

1. Player takes a keep – 25 points.
2. Player defends a keep – 5 points.

3. Player takes a tower – 10 points.
4. Player defends a tower – 3 points.

5. Player takes a supply camp – 5 points.
6. Player defends a supply camp – 2 points.

7. Player kills another player – 0.5 points.

What this does is force a player who wants the Commander Title to actually participate in WvW. If a player can accumulate the above tasks to total 2000 points, they at least have the experience to be a Commander. Now, having logical thinking or common sense is a toss up.

Bottom line is this title should not be based on PvE, guild or other items. WvW is WvW.

I don’t get why it was just 100g in the first place. Simply allowing people to buy their rank made it more into a ‘look at me, I had money’ prestige thing.

To me it would have been better to buy the title with badges (and some gold) and that the icon would only show up in WvW maps. That way you have to earn your rank through WvW in order to be recognized as a commander in WvW.

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thats not anywhere NEAR high enough points level for that title. with that low total, everyone would have it in less than a week, and still would not have enough wvw experience to deserve it. took me, as a casual player, a few mos to get the 100k hk n title ach in wow. for your system the points total should be at least 30,000.

Doesn’t provide a solution for PvE-only commanders. Commander is not solely a WvW function. Retaining the current system and requiring some sort of WvW benchmark to be reached to activate your existing commander status in WvW might be acceptable though.

If the Anet game designers possessed any forsight they would have known how many people would be able to generate enough gold to buy the Commander tag in the first few months would be staggering. And that there would be so many comanders on a map it would become confusing. I have personally told one of the Anet Dev’s that we need to be able to turn tags off that we don’t want to see, we also need to be able to change our guild commanders color so that that we can see it and recognize it quickly on the map. He said these were both great ideas and he’d tell his team them. Commander tag so far is really just another Anet money grab which is kind of sad.

Commanders should be able to darn socks and be able to mimic the voices of the entire cast of the next Star Wars film before the cast list is chosen. Its also imperitive that they can make custard that is not lumpy.

You can’t find a merit-based way of doing it guys, any mechanic will always be artificial. Decent commanders will always show above the wannabe-bosses. Decent doesn’t always mean tactical geniuses, just the guys that will work at making their team better. Sometimes that is worth more than a tactical god that can’t communicate anything but hostility to his own people.