Guild Wars 2

When this was taken out of the game, it was very necessary. People would set their character to auto-walk behind dolyaks and would afk for cheap rewards.
I even had one guy complain when I started speed-buffing a yak.

At the start of the game when reaching lvl 80 was still a challenge and not everyone had geared up characters; this was a good step.

Over 14 months have passed since then, and the lay of the land is different. Rewards in other activities have increased, there are 1000 guides on power-levelling to 80 and most guilds will help new players get top level gear.

It’s time to bring back Dolyak rewards to reward an under-appreciated; but crucial support role in WvW.

This has many positives:
1. Allows those with slow reflexes or slow computers to help their teams more.
2. Will increase the small fights that so many players complain are lacking (how many roaming topics?)
3. Will reward people who play defense and who put team victory above cheap thrills.

It’s hard to think of any reason this would not be a positive. There are easier ways to grind for xp, money, and karma than this. It would shake up some older tactics and make small guilds and teams more important and take a more central role.

In short, there is no reason not to do this.

I agree with this.

There are many times where dolyak support is actually important, but hardly anyone is willing to do it because it has no rewards.

The karma train is already far better. Give the defenders a bone!

They said a while ago they wanted to (as well as reward scouts/sentries) but it was too easy to cheat the system by afking in the right areas etc. with how they have things set up now.

Meh. Escorting dolyaks is one of the most boring things you can do. At the end of the day, it’s just a game and I don’t really believe escorting dolyaks is really something that should be encouraged.

Radian.2478:

Meh. Escorting dolyaks is one of the most boring things you can do. At the end of the day, it’s just a game and I don’t really believe escorting dolyaks is really something that should be encouraged.

Welcome aboard the PvD train, zergling #485643

Now back on topic – totally agree, since currently the same people are wasting their time(and money) over and over again. And I mean – cheating by afking? For a gold medal event that gives like 1s and what, 200 karma and preferably100wexp… Wow, that sounds a good way to make money and wvw rank, much better and faster than anything else(lol).

There used to be botters doing it for a while too… to farm up gold and karma (???? lol).

Adding event rewards isn’t going to make it any less boring.

If you like to use the waypoints, than do your duty and escort a yak today!

Make escorting Doylaks count toward the Yakslapper achievement.

Sniping Dolyaks and escorting them are beyond crucial to WvW IMHO, but here’s the big problem. Let’s say you have a great server that mobilizes and gets those yaks safely to your keeps and towers and upgrades them all, and then…you all basically go to sleep and have no coverage. Then mini night crew zerglings come in and paper everything you work toward building up. It makes those of us that like the idea of playing defense feel like its pointless in the long run, or worse yet, it makes it harder for us to sell new WvW players on it since joining in with the zergs is far more appealing in an excitement/loot gain way. If defending was as rewarding for both PPT as well as loot gained from it more people might be apt to do it. Right now, its not challenging or rewarding for many people.

PookieDaWombat.6209:

Sniping Dolyaks and escorting them are beyond crucial to WvW IMHO, but here’s the big problem. Let’s say you have a great server that mobilizes and gets those yaks safely to your keeps and towers and upgrades them all, and then…you all basically go to sleep and have no coverage. Then mini night crew zerglings come in and paper everything you work toward building up. It makes those of us that like the idea of playing defense feel like its pointless in the long run, or worse yet, it makes it harder for us to sell new WvW players on it since joining in with the zergs is far more appealing in an excitement/loot gain way. If defending was as rewarding for both PPT as well as loot gained from it more people might be apt to do it. Right now, its not challenging or rewarding for many people.

The coverage issue is a completely different debate. Besides, being able to upgrade your fortifications quicker; will give your server’s token off-hours crew a much better shot at defending than if everything was only T2 with no defensive siege.
Outside of SoS/FA OCX and DB SEA; no NA server outside T1 can really run a map queue overnight anyhow; so defending key points should not be that difficult.