Guild Wars 2

Defense is boring, but necessary. Unfortunately there is nothing to do there.

My idea:

Around the forts there are things that spawn. Maybe…nails, spare lumber, scrap metal, etc. Collect them and you can hammer them into walls and doors to give them a slight boost to their hit points above the max. For example, if a door normally has 100,000 hit points, putting scrap metal on it might add 1000 more. This does not increase the “max” — if the door gets beat down, it can only be repaired to its normal max, but it does add points above the max to act as a buffer in the next attack.

Similarly, you could find “abandoned equipment” or something to increase guard health. Maybe you could even plant a banner in the road for a chance to attract additional guards. (Like the door health, these guards are “permanent until killed”. They don’t despawn unless killed, but they also don’t respawn.)

Basically, instead of standing on a wall with our thumbs up our kittens, we could at least be occupying ourselves with something mundane, but useful.

It would be better than nothing.