Guild Wars 2

Title says it all. We need incentive to defend. Karma training is too encouraged even with the fail loot. I like to play defensively and would love more of a challenge when taking towers. Im not going to offer much of a suggestion except maybe a buff to increase xp from kills while defending + small amounts of karma per kill. Any more thought on this? Obviously I wont get hopes up but its nice to dream.

Trust me I know exactly how you feel and on my server this actually came up earlier in Team chat.

The problem though as was pointed out is how do you tell who is actually Defending and who isn’t just in the area AFK or hiding so they can get the bonus? How do you get the reward system to tell the difference between an active and useful defender and someone just stood there?

I really would like us to get some more rewards and in that make defending a lot more appealing to other players but I can’t see it happening until we figure out how to tell the system who is an active defender and who isn’t in the battle first.

For the moment just try to take some Solace in that we are not well rewarded but we are just as important to our servers than any Karma train.

Well, I do not see why one would stop from rewarding defense because someone might be just AFK in the area… I can let attackers siege a structure for two hours doing anything else and jump in the circle at the last minute… Did nothing, but got rewards…

Now, one way to reward defense could be to
- give some rewards for refreshing siege.
- Increase rewards for defense tick (and fix it, so that one does not have to use supply or kill an ennemy to get the event)
- Increase reward dolly escort (is really the fact that some might bot through it more important than the fact that it is unrewarding for escorters? Use report and act on them)
- make a collaborative map-wide base fund into which all player can easily donate a few coppers or more, money for upgrades would first come from that fund when activated by a player (so that defensors are not always the ones to pay)

Yeah u shouldnt punish people doing the right thing just because some will abuse the system. But make it an active bonus so that u receive rewards based on what u do.