This an ode to the brave souls who stand at a supply camp watching the zerg of 50 enemies inexorably approach.
I propose an “Outnumbered” Buff that occurs when a player as a defender in a “take the tower, keep, supply camp” etc event is outmanned by a significant margin. The boost will give him a significant bonus to toughness and vitality that will make him very hard to kill (but not impossible). No bonuses to attacking powers though. If he wants to kill anyone and get stuff for it, it needs to be on ability.
The goal here is to actually make sentry duty worth something. The purpose of a Sentry is to sound the alarm when the enemy approaches and hold the line for reinforcements. but Zerg strategy pretty much has it that if one or two players are standing sentry at a supply camp, they just get run over and are dead in 2 seconds flat. No point for it then. By the time reinforcements arrive, the camp has been flipped and Righteous Indignation is up, and the help just sits there staring and the Zone Claiming Guard for the next 4 minutes while the zerg runs off and repeats the process somewhere else.
Actually giving survivability to the few people willing to stand guard will not only encourage the practice, but would also allow for more intense combat as the guards being able to defend a zone long enough for the alert to be given (and reacted too) would mean more clashes of Zergs at strategic points.
Or, it would mean instead of Zerging Supply camps, the incentive would be to use smaller groups to target camps and a more strategic application of the mass zerg, as attacking a few sentries with a normal party would not trigger the outnumbered buff.
