Guild Wars 2

I feel these three things would make WvW so much better for everyone, a more dynamic and team work oriented WvW.

1: Commanders get color coded text and shield, using the cloth dyes they have.
2:Commanders get a button to broadcast voice chat to all in their squad.
3:Commanders get a button to Broadcast to all active commanders in the zone.

I know some of you think we don’t need it because we have Vent/TS, but hell you can use that and the in game system, not everyone uses or can use vent/ts why not use both?

I feel a change like this would make fights so much better, since we’d all be on equal footing only set apart by the skill of our commanders.

Getting rid of commanders would make fights better…

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no, getting rid of the ability to buy a commander badge should go, high ranking wvw players should be able to get the badge no one else.

DEATH TO CREDIT CARD COMMANDERS

I don’t see the difference…

In both cases you don’t earn the right to be a commander.

the difference is, a credit card commander can buy his badge without every playing wvw, he then jumps into wvw giving aweful pointless orders killing everyone.

A player who has ranked high enough to earn the badge has more experience at wvw, knows a lot more than the former; he might still be a fail commander, but atleast there is a better chance of a commander who knows what he is doing.

It’s a self-selecting solution. “Bad” commanders either become “Good,” or find themselves without a sizable Squad. Now, as for your ideas:

1. This is something a good number of threads have touched upon. Color-coding + a chat-supression workaround would go a long way towards coordinating the VoIP and non-VoIP members of a server’s WvW population. Also makes it easier to run multiple tags/map
   2. & 3. – Considering the amount of combat/skill lag that exists in game, adding an in-built VoIP is something I have to disagree with. Mainly because I rather believe that it’d be done in less-than-optimized format, and would add to client-side bandwidth issues. Or worse yet, it would add to server-side issues. Which sucks, because if done right, it could bridge a lot of the “TS? But we use <insert VoIP name here>.” gap.

Players should know wich commander want to follow, i would not reccomend to take off the option to buy the badge, commanders should have option to change color and tag design or even upload a small png file to appear as tag, problem here is the lack of options commanders have besides the squad channel, other options would be a new window with the avaliable commanders, and player would check the ones who want to see in map/mini map, but i have almost sure Anet know what commanders need.

What WvW need’s?
Anet needs to decide what they want to do with it, how they will envolve this mode or if they will try to shape player more into the content Anets want to, wich i think it is what going to happen if not already happening.