New Feature – Siege Rank
- Create a Siege Rank value associated with every defendable location.
- When a location is being attacked, defending players receive Active Defender Rewards (XP/Karma/Coin) every X minutes spent there. This is how it works today.
- Players who remain at a defendable location that is NOT being attacked receive Passive Defender Rewards (XP/Karma/Coin) every X minutes spent there,. These rewards should be less than Active Defender Rewards.
- However, every time a player earns Passive Defender Rewards, the Siege Rank value is increased by 1.
- Similarly, every time a player earns Active Defender Rewards, the Siege Rank value is increased by 2.
- The Siege Rank value should not have a cap.
- The current Siege Rank for every location should be visible to all players, either on the map (preferable) or in the “Assault/Defend” event details in the top right of the screen.
Reward Multiplier
- The Siege Rank value acts like a multiplier for the rewards for capturing the location. A location with Siege Rank 25 will give significantly more XP/Karma/Coin than a location with Siege Rank 0 (completely undefended).
- This will self-correct for people sitting AFK in a Keep or Castle to farm XP/Coin/Karma. They’ll be able to do it for a little while, but every time they get the reward they make the defended location more enticing to the enemy teams.
- The Siege Rank value also acts like a multiplier for Active Defender Rewards. It does NOT increase Passive Defender Rewards, which are flat.
Siege Rank Tiers & Daily Chests
- At certain Siege Rank tiers (for example, Tier 1 Siege Rank 10-25, Tier 2 Siege Rank 26-50, etc) an Attacker daily reward chest is granted to enemy players who successfully capture the location. This would work like FOTM and you could get a daily chest for every tier.
- Similarly, players can earn Defender daily reward chests whenever they earn Active Defender rewards at locations in each Siege Rank tier. So players can earn both Attacker & Defender daily chests every day for each tier.
- Daily chests should have item rewards similar to the WvW Jumping Puzzle chests.
- The quality of items contained in the daily chests should increase with each Siege Rank tier.
- The quality of items in Attacker daily chests should be slightly higher than for Defender daily chests.
Other Ideas
- Other things could increase the Siege Rank of a location, for example reinforcing the walls or gates. This would give Defenders a good reason to want to hold the locations in which they invest (their personal rewards and daily chests get better and better faster and faster), and make reinforced locations very appetizing to attackers. Right now I would rather attack a Tower without a reinforced door, and that’s less fun.
- Supply camps could empart their Siege Rank onto their Dolyaks. As this would significantly increase the rewards for stopping supply chains, it would be reasonable to restore the reward for escorting/defending them.
Summary
In summary I feel that this idea (or some version of it) will achieve the following goals:
- Creates significant defender incentive by giving players a personal, selfish reason to defend locations, even ones that aren’t being attacked.
- Maintains attacker incentive and self-balances for the new defender rewards by making well-defended locations
- Creates personal incentive to invest in a location’s defenses by increasing the Siege Rank and
- Makes WvW enticing to players who don’t typically participate by granting them a chance at daily rewards. They might only defend one keep or attack one supply camp, but that would still be more interesting and more immediately rewarding for players of any level.
Thoughts?
and nothing else the hole day. You will send us right back with passive bonuses