Guild Wars 2

The lack of incentive to defend is one of the more prominent issues at the moment. I suspect that this is mostly due to the clear economic benefit of taking towers and keeps and the difficulty of “zerg busting”.

The simplest and quickest solution I see is altering some of the numbers and abilities of guild claiming. There is already the ability to boost stats in order to compensate for population differences and increase the magic find stat, yet the numbers as they stand don’t quite make a stalwart defense lucrative. I’m curious if pumping up those numbers might be enough to entice more people to defend?

I haven’t been on any other server other than Blackgate, but we actively defend our keeps and towers. The PPT from them is the incentive to defend them. Perhaps the problem lies in the fact that WvW in lower tier servers lack the competition that makes towers that much more important?