Guild Wars 2

Well, I’m a huge fan of people escorting dolyaks or scouting out for zergs, because these are crucial yet unrewarding tasks for any battleground in WvW. Yet, despite the fact that these tasks are absolutely crucial to winning, they are given very few – if any rewards at all. So, any time someone supports giving these people rewards, then I will support them.

As to your idea on dolyak slapping and possible stealth with a long CD, I think those are great ideas that would add a significant value to allowing Anet to easily track users that actually escort the caravans. For example, a single slap to the dolyak would result in 0 reward. However, 3 slaps would result in a bronze reward. 9 slaps would result in a silver reward, and 15 slaps would result in a gold reward. It’ll help distinguish players that are passing by and giving random speed boosts to the dolyak by accident; yet, they accomplish the achievement for it. Although, to limit this, you would have to force the dolyaks to deny any acceptance of Speed Boosts from player abilities – it’ll create a much more balanced gameplay.

I dislike the fact that the dolyak abilities would have to research into a guild research for it; however, I would like the idea of additional options provided by guild research into wvw abilities. For example, “Dolyak Slap” would be freely given to all players in WvW, but “Sneaky Dolyak” which would provided 5 sec of stealth with a 40 sec CD would need to be researched first.

As for scouting, why not create an additional option in the Ranks and Abilities menu? For example, you could have an option to choose your role to play in a group/party of 5 people or in a squad of up to 30 people. The obvious option would be given to Commanders of: Leader; however, you’d only be able to have one leakitten er squad (doh). Next options would be Officers or 2nd in Command – which would require at least Rank 30. Another option could be: Scout, which would only require Rank 1, and you could only have 5 official Scouts per squad.

This would provide a much easier way to allow Anet to track actual effort and provide rewards on this effort.