Guild Wars 2

I was curious as to what people thought about a WvW Pool, something that is used for upgrading Keeps and Towers around the Eternal Battlegrounds.

It could work many ways I suppose, but I’ll put out an example of how I would like to see something like this work.

Upon entering the Eternal Battlegrounds, you can open an additional interface menu that allows you to donate funds, karma, or any other currency needed to upgrade a structure in WvW.

The pool could be funded multiple ways.
-Initially at the start of a reset, there would be no funds. Donations here.

-As players take keeps, kill players, funds are automatically deposited simply by player participation.

-PvE in WvW. If a player doesn’t have money to donate, but there’s no action going on and they want to help out, they can kill many of the NPCs around the battleground. Be it guards, or just monsters. When any NPC’s die, funds are deposited into the pool.

-Being behind might give you additional funds, to help you get a foothold. Maybe your side is pushed right back to your portals. The longer this happens the more funds are built up in your sides pool. So that if you do manage to take something, it can be fully upgraded easily by your side.

Just something I would really like to see, since upgrading in WvW can be a very expensive thing.

I can totally see this being a thing.

I think maybe the initial idea could be improved upon if instead of just putting in your dime, you make a promise, so that it doesn’t just take the money. Instead, when enough people promise the coin, it’ll take it, during the upgrade. This should help if nobody else contributes.

There are many ways this could implement, as well. Via a menu, via an NPC, or via slash commands.

I support this suggestion, and hope this this thread catches developer’s attention.

Yeah, it would have to be decided upon by Anet of course, so they could do it however they wanted. But something along these lines would be nice.