Guild Wars 2

I’m sorry if this suggestion has already come up, I actually hope it has already, but I feel like it’s a must for WvW and couldn’t find it in a search.

When you walk up to a downed or dead body you should be able to force respawn if you pull a finisher on them. It makes the flow all weird and makes focusing a commander worthless with the current way deaths works. You can’t confuse an unorganized zerg by taking out their commander if they just pick him up a few second later. It gives groups with larger numbers an advantage and because of this strategy can only go so far in a fight were you are outnumbered(all the larger numbered group has to do is push forward with their power and have the back res up those you killed this of course, just like every strategy simple and complex, doesn’t always work). It promotes bad player habits were people will just run in dying almost immediately then wait for a res not contributing.

If this change was made small groups wouldn’t feel so weak they could strike zergs off and on strategically to reduce their numbers and split them. Commanders wouldn’t be at the front lines or always leading the charge because without a commander some zergs would lose all ability to function properly increasing their importance to friends and enemies. The zergs who become unorganized because of a loss of commander would have to learn how to stay organized without him or die promoting smarter play. This feature could promote more strategic play and you could even start seeing smaller strategic servers beat larger less strategic servers.

Players would also pay more attention to their downed comrades keeping players away or picking them up faster just to make sure nobody gets to them.

This change would be a drastic one so i think it would be good to test it with the community over a few weeks. I don’t know how i feel about a player being forced to respawn by ranged attacks so i think that is something that shouldn’t happen. Although if gone threw extensive testing that could probably be figured out but i think it would promote turtling in towers.

I want to burn their bodies to force the respawn.