Guild Wars 2

Being a relatively non-rich player, I would like to suggest alternate methods of upgrading keeps, camps, and towers in wvw. I have loads of extra karma due to there being few places to spend it (especially if you don’t necessarily care for the karma gear, which you can’t get on my server anyway due to the events never being completed).

The suggestion:
Separate tabs for upgrades: Gold, Karma, or Badges.

Not everyone has 2 gold to blow on an upgrade, and those of us who can simply afford to upgrade camps often don’t because we don’t feel that the 35 silver required is justified, typically because camps are so ridiculously easy to take (see: zerg issue).

As a side note, my server in particular has been having issues in many areas and 1 would be that very very few of the already few people we have are willing to shell out for upgrades so it kind-of limits our possibility of playing smart to beat the odds. (HoD).

Personally I need all my cash so that I can upgrade my equipment more and if I upgrade more stuff I will never be able to save enough cash. I should be able to blow my excess karma and/or badges to help out.

One final thing – I did consider that some people may think this trivializes the upgrades. In my opinion, wvw should be based as much on team skill and tactics (yak escorting, etc) and less on how much cash we have. For instance, we do just fine with limited siege versus our opponents (this week) who throw that stuff down like candy.

P.S. Sorry if this has been suggested before, didn’t really have time to search in-depth.