Guild Wars 2

Attack, capture, destroy… there’s nothing in the achievements at all for the defenders. Where’s the love for the guy that babysits a tower for notable periods of time, fighting off attacks and keeping it upgraded and the siege refreshed for the server?

Does anyone else think there should at least be achievements for “x defended”? Camps, towers, keeps defended… it feels like a glaring oversight.

Repairing is very much for defenders.

The main issue with having an achievement tied to defending is the fact that the defending events seems to not award credit half of the time, which would flood this forum with people complaining about not getting credit.

maybe theyll fix defending by season 2

…nah prolly not

I don’t know why you can’t change the code that if you are within a camp, tower, keep or castle zone of influence AND you do enough damage to tag an enemy player or siege you’d get credit for defending.

Imo, defender achievements would be a pain to get. Too much of a gamble, depending on your circumstances. The major problem is in this game, you can never definitively win a defense. You never win a defense because you beat the enemy, you win a defense because the enemy gave up. Unfortunately this problem comes with the territory in this game type, least imo. You can’t stop a respawning horde unless the devs do something drastic like, remove rezzing and only allow respawn on tick, I know some people want to remove rezzing, but I don’t think anyone wants to be stuck waiting so long for a respawn. Even then, all it would server to do is hold the enemy off till the tick, then a fresh wave could arrive.