Guild Wars 2

What’s up with that?

I would like to add that this also surprises me.
Dolyaks represent a significant part of the WvW scene, without our Bessie there would be no tiered keeps/towers. Especially when defending the ol’ gal can be quite a challenge in most cases.

Ive also noticed that when I first started WvWing within the first two weeks of the game I was often rewarded with karma/Character XP/Coins for escorting dolyaks but now I get the gold badge and no rewards? Intentional patch change that I missed or something that needs looking at?

Don’t escort yaks, escorting gives 0 WXP. Let other people do it.

Here are some more great tips as to how get more WXP: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Guide-How-to-get-alot-of-WXP-fast/first

Keep the zergball rollin’!

They changed the rewards for escorting Dolyaks about a month or so after release, simply because people ignored most of the other things and just escorted dollys to get nice rewards.

lordkrall.7241:

They changed the rewards for escorting Dolyaks about a month or so after release, simply because people ignored most of the other things and just escorted dollys to get nice rewards.

Cheers that cleared that up

Long live Bessie!

That was because bots where escorting the dollys, but why would a bot need Wxp?

fab.3298:

That was because bots where escorting the dollys, but why would a bot need Wxp?

Not only bots.
Quite a few regular players did it as well, since it was a rather easy and somewhat risk-free way to get loads of karma, xp and money.

You get WXP for killing the dolyaks which, in most cases, is a lot easier. Yet nothing for escorting.. It just makes no sense to me.

Eskepesk.4106:

You get WXP for killing the dolyaks which, in most cases, is a lot easier. Yet nothing for escorting.. It just makes no sense to me.

I agree. I recently came back and was surprised at the rewards that were removed from WvWvW like Dolyak escorting.

the problem with rewards for the escort event is how to evaluate participation..

either you set the bar too low and ppl that just run by the yak eventually get a reward when it’s done..

or the rewards only trigger if enemies were within range of the yak, which would mean that you most of the time you spend 5 minutes escorting a yak, no one shows up to attack it, you don’t get a reward, ppl come back here to complain anyway.

GrandmaFunk.3052:

the problem with rewards for the escort event is how to evaluate participation..

either you set the bar too low and ppl that just run by the yak eventually get a reward when it’s done..

or the rewards only trigger if enemies were within range of the yak, which would mean that you most of the time you spend 5 minutes escorting a yak, no one shows up to attack it, you don’t get a reward, ppl come back here to complain anyway.

The rewards should be comensurate to how long you escort it along it’s path. From the supply camp to the destination is full rewards and you diminish it from there.

The other night I did a 5 hour shift of scouting, running yaks, upgrading camps and towers (some 2g worth), capping moles/frogs, and placing siege. I was flat out the entire time.

My WXP reward? About 1/20th of one rank bar.

At the end of the night, just when I was about to log out, we had a major attack on SM to deal with, and being low on manpower, I helped out for 15 minutes.

My WXP reward? Half of one rank bar.

That ain’t right.

When I’m escorting dolyaks, I know that I get bronze-silver reward if I speedbuff the dolyak 3 times. I always get gold if I defeat a foe that attacked the dolyak during it’s path. So obviously the reward scales with amount of participation, presence alone does nothing in the event. Let the WXP scale with the participation too!

Did this for 3 hours in EB last night on the WC side. And yeah, the only reward was the WP finishing and personal sense of accompishment.

Ubi.4136:

Did this for 3 hours in EB last night on the WC side. And yeah, the only reward was the WP finishing and personal sense of accompishment.

And there is nothing wrong with that. It’s what fueled us for 8 months.

But right should be right. You kill a dolly (that can be farmed as well) and get wxp, you should get wxp for defending and escorting it. I’ll even go as far as saying you should get double the wxp.

On a second note, all you non defenders can come in posts like this and popcorn troll it all you wish. However you will never understand the sense of accomplishment and actually being part of doing something for the server. You care about the struture, the camps and dollies. You respect other players who spends time and their own gold to upgrade and buy/build siege. In a sense, it gives the game a deeper meaning then the mindless killing.

Do nothing for your server more then random skirmishes, you lose all purpose of the game and the indifference kicks in. This indifference leads to you calling those who cares QQ’ers and whiners for asking you to pls don’t take supply from a tower/keep (amongst other things).

I think the issue is that you’d have to change how the Dolyak walks give credit. If NO ONE escorts it, and then you run near it for a few seconds by a keep, you can get gold. Obviously then this would be an extremely easy way to get WXP, as it requires doing nothing. Even if you have lots of people escorting, while it is one of the most important jobs, the problem becomes, how much do you give, how do you assign who gets it, etc… I’d be all for them giving WXP for escorting yaks, it would just have to be in a way that couldn’t be easily exploited.