Guild Wars 2

are useless. One can simply ignore the guards and kill the doly, and the guards immediately despawn. There has to be a way to make it so that a single player can’t kill one NPC and be done. This effectively negates the upgrade, right? The guards do no good as long as you can kill the doly before the guards kill you.

Perhaps allow the guards to persist after the doly dies? They could continue to attack the enemy until they die or are at deaggro range. If still alive when the enemy player gets away, they should go back to the doly and attempt to rez, then continue to escort.

Except that, in your scenario, the dolyak would just get revived by the ignored guards, then farmed for event completion.

guards are only there essentially to protect from NPC spawns killing yaks. Without hiring guards almost every yak will be killed by cave bats/krait/colocol/drakes etc. before it ever gets to its destination.

Catisa.6507:

guards are only there essentially to protect from NPC spawns killing yaks. Without hiring guards almost every yak will be killed by cave bats/krait/colocol/drakes etc. before it ever gets to its destination.

That’s weird it sounds like something that would happen but I have never seen that before, often times i might be taking down enemy dolyaks and they get to the point where i take them down with no trouble and without guards.

Also to this topic yeah it is something I noticed the other day when I did happen across a guarded dolyak I thought I will try and at least get the event done before I die, killed the dolyak and the guards disappeared.

I don’t know how hard it would be to do this but I think when a supply camp has the upgrade for guards to follow the dolyak the event should be expanded to take down the whole caravan and not just the dolyak. That way the dolyak can be revivable if the player doesn’t take out the guards and the dolyak event can not be abusively farmed in a way unintended