Guild Wars 2

Hey, FSP commander over here (DDD)
To be honest most of our commanders do want to defend aswell. But defending in wvw is basically much more then a commander who is running around the map to defend the towers. You need permacappers, reports and people willing to upgrade the towers aswell. When people refuse to upgrade the towers, you won’t be able to hold the towers during primetime. In that case the best thing you can do is keep pressuring the enemys to distract them from stealing your towers. Also it’s most of the time better to switch your paper tower for an upgraded enemy tower.

My ideal situation is to have one commander focusing on offense and another one on upgrading and defense. Someone who is playing defense should be able to switch with someone to do offense but it can be a problem finding someone to scout/upgrade. It’s all about being flexible but it has to be organized, especially between the commanders. I personally don’t think you have to be skilled at manipulating the keyboard to be a good commander, you just have to know how to lead.

MistMirage.4706:

I hate it when a PVE noob comes for achives and switch on commander:
-Forget about garrison, we need supply camps, cos I need 3 for AP.

Don’t follow him

The problem is people are using commander pins to organize a couple guild groups or have no intention of leading a zone defense or zerg.

Why? Because there is NO OTHER IN GAME SYSTEM to organize more than 5 people. Until they allow people to form private or guild only squads that hide the pin except for people in the squad… this will continue.

Give us flexible grouping systems and we’ll see less pins screwing things up.

Torgrim.3642:

endless commander rant snipped.

Roll one and show those how it’s done? These sort of rants remind me of my days in WoW BG randoms when players there barked about not having healers, etc. Stop griping about others play and roll one yourself………..

Here is a funny commander rant, starts at the 1 minute mark