Guild Wars 2

So I have been playing sPvP for a while now, and I thoroughly enjoy it, I started on my thief and slowly shifted over to a sort of support/disruption specialization on my elementalist. Something I have noticed though, is that while playing my elementalist as a “support” I’m finding myself defending points more often than being in most of the fights. There is something very troubling about this fact.

When defending points there is no passive reward for doing so, thus you are behind the glory curve if the opposite team decides they do not wish to attempt to capture said point. If I choose to support my team and defend a point with my teammates while the rest of my team gets into the larger fights on offense, shouldn’t I be rewarded with the same/comparable amount of glory?

I do understand that there may be some issues behind rewarding a passive score for standing at a point (afkers for example).

Anyway, just pointing something out that kind of bothered me, hope to see others opinions on this matter! Also, thank you Anet for such a fun game.

I agree, there should be a reward for holding the point. As you said, you’re doing your team a favor by holding that point, but you lose out incredibly on the ‘skirmishing’ player kills and whatnot, since most of the fighting in hot joins occur in the midst of the field.

AFK’ers would not be an issue, enemy runs up, smacks said ‘afker’ and boom he’s dead, still afk and enemy captures the point. Even if it is a bot and the script runs him back, eh’s still easy prey.

Thank you for your input, nice to hear I’m not the only one who feels this way. I see your point with afk’ers now. I haven’t done tourney play too much but I can see this being less of an issue when there are less fights on the roads and more on points. Who knows, maybe in the future there will be a passive reward for defending.. I sure hope so!

Perhaps i’m imagining things but i have a nagging feeling a dev posted they were looking in to this. Either that or it was a well thought out user post.

kabaal.1832:

Perhaps i’m imagining things but i have a nagging feeling a dev posted they were looking in to this. Either that or it was a well thought out user post.

I am not sure if there was a dev post about this! I did search around for quite a bit about this and found nothing, so I figured I’d throw it out there. :]

I completely agree. I find myself wondering why I ever bother defending, when it is much better to run away and hide – then take the point back in 30 seconds.

I would like to see something like 5-10 points every 30 seconds you sit in the ring. Perhaps a buff given off by the ring to make it easy to program into the game. If you leave the ring to chase, you lose the buff.

Its one of the reasons i don’t care for the Capricorn map, someone gets stuck camping ruins and getting almost no glory. I often do so to assist my team, but is a bummer no points for it.

Not sure I agree with just straight-up passive bonuses for sitting on a point. If no one is coming to attack it, you’re not actually defending it, are you? If someone does come to attack it, you get Objective Defender. What’s the problem?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Suggestion-Glory-gain-for-point-holders/first#post314541

even with reply from Jon inside, so search before posting…

Animosity.5231:

Not sure I agree with just straight-up passive bonuses for sitting on a point. If no one is coming to attack it, you’re not actually defending it, are you? If someone does come to attack it, you get Objective Defender. What’s the problem?

The problem is, it seems that the moment you decide to leave the point to make an attempt at gaining some glory someones there capping the point. Not only is it not rewarding, it’s also frustrating that you seemingly are just wasting time defending as someone else said in this thread.

I think this thread should be merged with the other, both threads put out some valid points that will not overlap.

If they don’t give timed points just for standing there, maybe add a defensive bonus that’s given at the end?

Z