Guild Wars 2

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Grimkor.9147:

Hello all. I got the game on release, but had to step away because of real life work and that eating up all my time. I only point this out because I think I really am the random pug guy that was referenced. I can’t speak for everyone obviously but I personally don’t care who is leading. I didn’t come back and jump into WvW only to follow a dorrito around the map, and I honestly didn’t know what that meant for a day or so after seeing it.

As long as the group is having fun and getting into some good fights I don’t see it as an issue that the person leading the group doesn’t have the icon above their head. I think the players will rally behind anyone who is making an effort.

That’s an optimistic viewpoint. Having been a commander for some time now, I can say not all people are so “forgiving.” I’ve definitely led my zerg to plenty of wipes and also led them to cap most of the map in our color. In my experience, a vast majority of people on GW2 tend to be “fairweather players” that will stick with you once it’s great but as soon as you make a mistake, will claim they’ve been against you from the beginning.

The good news is that on your server, people are a little more forgiving because it’s actually more of a community than EotM where I do most of my commanding now. This allows for more forgiveness for the tag and for more people willing to help.

Not sure how anyone would know my server unless I just don’t know the forums well, but I’m on Yaks Bend and I do find the people there to be a good group at least during the times I play. I haven’t done much yet so I don’t have a lot of play time to pull that opinion from yet. I just tend to follow the blob and hope we meet another blob and have a war.

I haven’t done EotM yet.

Hello all. I got the game on release, but had to step away because of real life work and that eating up all my time. I only point this out because I think I really am the random pug guy that was referenced. I can’t speak for everyone obviously but I personally don’t care who is leading. I didn’t come back and jump into WvW only to follow a dorrito around the map, and I honestly didn’t know what that meant for a day or so after seeing it.

As long as the group is having fun and getting into some good fights I don’t see it as an issue that the person leading the group doesn’t have the icon above their head. I think the players will rally behind anyone who is making an effort.