Guild Wars 2

This may or may not have been asked before, but why dont we have a trait for banners similar to ranger spirits? By that I mean wouldnt it be nice to have a little squire to carry banners with us so theyre somewhat useful outside of boss fights? even if we’re limited to 1 squire id take that as a 30 pointer somewhere.

Inspiring Battle Standard could change to: Combat Squire

Combat Squire: Instead of summoning your banner on its own, you call upon a squire who will carry the banner alongside you in combat and apply its benefits as often as another player would. Only one Squire may be summoned this way. 90s ICD

Benefits:

• Mobile Banner
• Passive use of Banner skills (Squire will use 1-5)
• A “pet” skill for the Warrior class
• Additional AoE targets

Drawbacks:

• Banner Squires can be killed, causing the Banner to be used normally
• Banners do not all provide perma-regen (they really shouldn’t anyway)
• Players cannot use Banner skills while Squire has the Banner
• Multiple Banners will not summon multiple Squires
• Elite War Banner does not spawn an “elite” Squire; only a normal one

good ideas red, granted they should really only use skill 2/3 or they’ll just run away with the banner and get killed on any trash mob if you try to pull mobs. maybe an active skill like spirits where they slam the banner(similar to skill 5) as a small AoE blast?

Would be cool to have banners that display on your back like the guild backpiece, this would involve removing all the skills and only using it as a stat boost, would probably need a cooldown increase or maybe the stats nerfed but would be pretty cool.

Edit – Like Yoshimitsu for example