Guild Wars 2

Alright, I have to open with…I love the idea of this season thing. Keeps things more balanced, makes it so we aren’t stuck fighting the same 2-4 servers over and over and over again…But, the achievement thing has left one painfully glaring problem: No one defends anymore. Now, I know that constant offense has always been a problem, but with the inclusion of these new achievements, the servers (or at least the three in my current week) have been basically trading off Stonemist as well as keeps and towers all week. No one attempts to actually hold territories anymore, just take them and leave them to take again later. Before anyone bites my head off or declares me just complaining in the wrong forum, I have a couple of solutions…

Defensive season achievements!

AND

More defense rewards!

Now, for the first one, it should be easy enough. Protect the keeps/towers/camps/Mist enough and get your achievement and progression toward the meta. Make it close to or on par with the amount of captures one needs, as well as rewarding a chest for doing so!

The second, you might be saying ’Didn’t they already try that?’ Well, Billy, They could make it so you get rewarded for a defense event, so long as you contributed to the defense, even if the attack isn’t over, instead of having to hold for the whole timer (possibly multiple times) as well as the attack just to get rewarded once. It’ll cause someone to have to plan attacks better as well as give people reasons to hold the territory instead of just deliberately waiting to take it back.