The WvW lacks a good “commander interface”.
Buying an item that is supposed to signify an ability to do something well is wrong in the first place.
If you want to be good at anything, you have to practice.
I would like to see the whole commander system redesigned:
In WvW, clicking on a tower, or whatever can be captured/defended/etc, would bring up a small interface with several tactical options.
Clicking on either of these would issue an event which players could decide to join.
The aftermath of this event would then accumulate “commander experience” to the player that triggered the event. How this is calculated is of course debatable.
Now, this would of course generate a lot of spam if everyone started tons of “commander events”, so there would have to be some sort of “commander tryout” cap.
Perhaps this is where Badges or wxp would come in to play, or simply a voting system by the current players in WvW.
Then again, once you done some rounds in WvW, you tend to be able to sort out which commanders do a good job.
Also, commanders have different playstyles, so you might favor some over others.
Still, I don’t like the concept of buying “status”.
We have schools after all.
