Guild Wars 2

As a Dragonbrand member since the head start period, I’ve seen the power of a strong defense of objectives in WvW firsthand. Before we reached tier 2 and 3, Dragonbrand only made headway courtesy of our very strong Oceanic and SEA players. North America spent their time defending the gains over the course of their day, slowly losing ground, but holding enough to stay in the lead before we could once again go on the offensive.

When Season 1 came out, however, I was disappointed to see that not a single achievement rewarded the defense of an objective. I was even more disappointed when I got into WvW and saw a cycle of zergs capturing and immedietly losing objectives without any attempt to defend the gains.

I believe that increased rewards for defending objectives (and perhaps lessening rewards for taking objectives, especially unupgraded ones) will help to reduce this behavior. Defending wins WvW, but it doesn’t reward the player much at all, so people are less inclined to actually do it. Rewarding defense will provide much more intense battles and sieges as the game mode was intended to have. However, since you can’t defend what you don’t hold, capturing will still be sought after and people will still have the incentive to go out and attack.

TLDR: Increasing the rewards for defense will increase the interesting and intense battles that people enjoy.