Guild Wars 2

Can we see Armoured Dolyaks replaced/reworked please? They are very lacklustre compared with their contemporaries.

all yaks upgrades need a rework.

Packed: gives 2x supply, and 2x the tick (missing this part from the tooltip btw :/)
Speedy: moves twice as fast.

WEll….if something moves twice as fast…..then it gives 2x the supply as a normal. ANd if it moves twice as fast….its gonna tick twice as fast. They are the same stat wise. Speedy still move faster in general though (for whatever reason), but due to yak respawn times (7-9seconds) packed are generally better…since they respawn half as much as speedy. Packed are also fastest overall with an escorter giving swiftness/superspeed. If you aren’t going to escort though and you are delivering to a tower that doesn’t respawn the yak….then speedy is best, otherwise always use packed.

Armoured: look really reallly cool, die just as easily. Slot this only when you already have t3 stuff with full supply. otherwise its just there to block an upgrade slot and look cool.

also we still don’t get participation for escorting yaks that don’t respawn. For example rogues to wildcreek. If you don’t own smc, the yak will just go back and forth without respawning….escorting this yak will yield ZEROOOOO participation no matter how many trips u make with it.

Also the other upgrade: invulnerable needs changing…..it randomly re-applies its own buff as soon as the yak spawns. So if its got 1 second left on it…as long as the yak respawns it will get a full 5 mins ri (or something along those lines….don’t quote me on it).

COuld also use other camp upgrades to assist with upgrading and/or defending camps themselves. Right now its very hard to hold the important camps needed for swift upgrading. Maybe it should be?

Also t3 camps die just as quickly as paper ones…..needs to be more benefit from owning a t3 camp other than a few more points.
Armoured yaks could have auto turrets on them, t2/t3 camps could give yak speed/supply benefits or even supply depot benefits. Maybe it gives an extra 1 supply at t1, 3 supply at t2, 5 supply at t3.

Its not hard to add to the system.

This is a wonderful opportunity to harp on everything I don’t like about Anet’s development team…that said, I think we should cut them some slack. Unlike the first couple of years, I think they’re actually trying now.

The reality is that Armored Yaks don’t do much of anything. They aren’t more resilient against condi damage and still die to power unless escorted. The escort bubble is far more effective. Some argument can be made that it’s an earlier upgrade and meant to have less impact, but that shouldn’t make it useless. We should also consider that camps had 3 upgrade tiers when this system was released and have since been collapsed to one.

That means that Armored Yaks were meant to be a less impactful upgrade that could be comboed with things like Speedy Yaks to have a more tangible impact. They were never meant to stand on their own or in competition with the other upgrades.

The problem is not so much the original design as a massive design change that was made without considering all of the fallout—a reoccurring issue with WvW. Perhaps they’ll revisit it and make it right. Perhaps it won’t take a year. Perhaps they’ll do a complete job too.

It’s too early to totally give up hope.