Guild Wars 2

Suggestion stolen from TheDaiBish.9735 in another thread

BADGES! We don’t need no stinkin’ BADGES!

At the moment, I save up the 300 badges of honor or whatever for a piece of the Invader’s armour, and it gives me… nothing.

Nothing over and above any other exotic armour anyway. I’m not interested in a legendary, I think they look pretty ugly, so I might as well spend them on arrow carts. I find it kind of demoralising that killing 12-14 enemies in WvW is only worth the equivalent of 6 silver.

To make badges worthwhile, each peice of Invader’s armour should have a specific bonus that only works in WvW:

Invader’s Helm = 25% less damage from arrow carts.
Invader’s Backpack = +10 maximum supply carried.
Invader’s Pauldrons = 25% less damage from catapults / balista
Invader’s Gloves = +50% speed when building siege
Invader’s Chestplate = 25% less damage from cannons.
Invader’s Leggings = +50% speed when repairing walls / doors
Invader’s Boots = +15% movement speed when carrying supply.

Rune with All 6 armour pieces equipped:

normal stats, but 6th rune equipped gives: 25% reduction in cost of upgrades from quartermaster.

The armour and rune would need to be perma-soulbound of course, so only people who get the badges can use it.

This would make WvW far more rewarding and competitive I think. In order to get all that you’d need something like 3000 badges of honor, which is something like 9000 kills, since not every kill drops badges.

Very fair I think.

Rune for wvw is a good idea imo. Can swap it out if you get bored of wvw and wanna do other stuff. The stat benefits can be arguable but the idea to have a wvw bonus is great as a rune.

You structured it in a way that shouted RUNE benefit. That’s not exactly your idea but its a + if its a rune!

Yeah maybe. So, instead if the WvW armour vendor sold the backpack and a rune that gave the stats (as well as selling that horrible looking armour), it would be awesomes:

Superior Invader’s Rune
1/6 = 25% less damage from arrow carts.
2/6 = +50% speed when repairing walls / doors
3/6 = 25% less damage from catapults / balista
4/6 = +50% speed when building siege
5/6 = 25% less damage from cannons.
6/6 = 25% reduced cost when buying upgrades from quartermaster

Invader’s Backpack = +10 maximum supply carried. (Guild logo displayed)

Only problem is that with the rune, the armour would be called “Invader’s Helm of the Invader”. I do already have a Beserker’s Mithril Amulet of the Berserker though, so that’s not a game-breaker.