Guild Wars 2

Seeing the idea of “deployable mortars” on the recent poll post got me thinking – we already have these and they are even mobile and self healing.

Yes, its the charr bike-tank that is already part of the WvW game as an upgrade, but that desperately needs alteration in order to be useful.

Why don’t we see these? Well, its because they need a high tier camp in order to place the tactivator that makes them. As camps flip every few minutes, this just doesn’t happen and its not possible to protect what is quite a valuable asset. Due to all this, a very cool item that is already coded, in the game and ready to go, is almost never seen on the battlefield. That is a waste of development time and needs change.

To fix this, I propose that the charr-bike upgrade is moved to towers instead of being on camps. This way they can be protected and will see use as people wheel them out every so often. It also gives people a reason to go to towers rather than just pulling the occasional banner out of a keep when they resupply or waypoint in. It makes towers tactical and also a potential target to be assaulted or protected.

I think that this is an utmost priority. We shouldn’t be adding deployable mortars when we already have something in game that is better, more lore appropriate and ready coded but gathering dust. Lets make some noise and get our tanks back.

Do it for the legions and lets bring this to dev attention please.

You can make these at T1 from camps now. There is only 1 tier on camps it was updated.

Knob.6835:

You can make these at T1 from camps now. There is only 1 tier on camps it was updated.

That’s a good start and something I wasn’t aware of – but I still think that such an upgrade would benefit from being put on a tower and not on a camp as they flip too rapidly to make it worth placing them down. Alternatively, they would make a great option on a siege vendor as a different sort of golem type mobile siege device.

I can’t see why they shouldn’t be in towers. Although having 6 of these running around might be a little OP.

Have them compete for slots with banners

Add a Clown Car skin to the gemstore and fill it with Quaggans in clown outfits.