Guild Wars 2

While I liked the WVW Season 1 idea, it strikes me as very unfortunate that the main way to reach all the achievements in the shortest amount of time is to run around with a mass party again. Basically, unless we are commanders, we are little more than lemmings trailing around the map, hoping to get at least one hit in on the supervisors/lords before the zerg kills them.

Further, the fact that most of the achievements focus solely on offense is really short-sighted. For us to keep or maintain objectives, defense is required, even if it’s of the nature of scouting or sentry work on keep walls. Why can’t we have defense objectives that reward players for maintaining watch? Couldn’t sentry posts within an area be established and in order for someone to get an achievement for guard work, they have to interact with X number of them within a specific time frame?

I spent over two hours being stuck on keep sentry one night while guild parties went running off taking offensive objectives. If I were making badges of honor or WVW points while I was doing it, the task would have seemed more rewarding. If someone chooses to go on defense, they’re already electing to go without bags, tower/camp/keep/castle lord kills & the chests from them. As it was, the thanks we got for patrolling walls, other than knowing we had helped get keeps fully upgraded, was the commanders of the zergs criticizing how we handled opponent attacks when it was 1 vs. mob. A pretty thankless job on the whole.

More advanced tactics would have to be employed if more defense tasks were rewarded. The benefit of a scout or a patrol on the walls should not be discarded, but as it is, every person who presently protects existing assets rewards the server with PPT being added but also rewards the zerg offense, because it allows them the freedom to go off and have fun getting loot and killing players while the server status remains protected. The only ones not directly remunerated for effort are those actually doing camp/tower/keep/castle defense.

Tivy – Fort Aspenwood