Guild Wars 2

I dont think this is really a ‘needed’ thing, more of a convenience for everyone… A buildable defense/support siege weapon, like a medical tent that functions the same way as other siege weapons, but instead of shooting enemies and gates, it provides a regeneration aura passively, and its active abilities would include condition removal AoE’s, a guardian-like bubble (targeted) and a skill for retrieving downed allies (but not dead), pulling/teleporting them to the station to be revived.

Like siege weapons, it basically does what some professions can do but it a stronger way.
It would probably cost between a treb and a golem, can be used ontop of a wall in defense or on the field in offense. Naturally you’d want to keep it out of siege range and defend it raids.

Silver costs/supply costs/power of abilities/cooldowns aside, anyone else want to see something like this in WvW?

I’d like to see a variety of support siege weapons, not just all offense.

engineers have healing turrets that essentially do what you are asking for, with 0 cost.

Sounds like you have a very cool idea there. I wouldn’t mind seeing it. As long as it can be balanced. In my mind the biggest threat for something like this that would become a buffbot (essentially) would be how they could be abused if stacked near each other and have decent amount of defense they could cause an army to never die. Making Turtle Defensive strats last forever. There would have to be something to offset them.

People were asking about the ability to ‘drag’ downed team mates to safety, WvW is all about having the burst to actually kill people, forcing respawn. This siege camp would have the ability to pull those downed players to safety, but on a cooldown so it cant save everybody. Elementalist can do something similar but much more limited.

As for the fear of stacking them, stacking lots of catapults or trebs is worse since you wouldnt need anyone near the wall, just bombard it! Either way you do it, siege weapons are a threat to be countered, how people do it is up to them.

Not stacking them is an easy fix…just make it so only one affects you at a time. See? Simple.

It does sound like a half decent idea though, and could barely tip the tide in some of those more intense battles. I would love to see more stuff in WvW for sure though.

Regeneration already works like that, so the passive is out for stacking, but pulling multiple downed people out of battle could be effective. People would just need to learn to focus more and not give them a chance instead of just all aoe all the time.