Guild Wars 2

Trying to come up with a way to reward people who scout and escort yaks in this game has been a problem for a while now, so I came up with a base idea that can use a lot of discussion to make it perfect.

In the guild tab, under a low art of war level, probably 2 or 3, there is an upgrade for scouting and/or escorting yaks. When you unlock this upgrade, officers in the guild can assign 1 scout per tower, or 1 or 2 or 3 or whatever number escorts to a camp. The scouts in the tower have to stay within a certain range of the tower, but while they are in the range, they can tag an ally player and receive any karma, loot or exp they receive. It will only be 1 per tower, and the officer at any time can change scouts or remove the player if they r doing a poor job of scouting. If the scout is within a certain range of the player he tagged, the scout will not recieve the allies loot, only his own. The same can be applied to the camps, where any yaks in the camp will be given a few skills that only the players assigned by the officer can use. Haven’t thought of all the skills yet, but the 1 skill could be yak slap which gives it a movement speed buff, and wxp to the player using it, it is then put on a CD. Could be another skill that is like a 5 second stealth on the yak with a 40sec CD or something.

I’m going to try to explain some of the reasons behind a few of the things so people have more clarity and can better discuss it. The biggest problem with some of the stuff is bots/afkers and having no control over it. This is the idea of having to buy the upgrade in a low art of war level so that noob 1 man guilds/players can’t abuse it, but smaller guilds/scouts in their own guild who have a little influence can do it. You would probably need to claim the tower to be able to give ur members the ability to scout and receive rewards. This could cause some problems with claiming, but maybe in higher art of wars, u can unlock the ability to claim more than 1 tower. Little guilds shouldn’t need to claim more than 1 tower, but 500 man guilds could claim every tower on the map to scout what they need. It could even be separate claiming maybe. Keep the regular claiming like it is, then add a separate scout claiming so it doesn’t mess with people who need to buff a tower or if some random noob guild did claim it and won’t let go, but a different guild can still claim it to scout.

This is still just beginning ideas, but with some more people adding thought and ideas to it, I think it could turn into a really good idea to reward scouts/yak escorters.

I know i forgot a few things, so I will add more when i remember them, but feel free to point out any flaws or things u think could add to it

there’s a reason the reward for this is gone.
20 man groups would and did farm it for hours, regardless of what was going on in the map. you must be quite new to the game to not know it was around before.

You are rewarded by having a tower/keep full of supply.

Lightsbane.9012:

there’s a reason the reward for this is gone.
20 man groups would and did farm it for hours, regardless of what was going on in the map. you must be quite new to the game to not know it was around before.

Since you did not read it, I will shorten it for you. The idea is for a guild to claim the camp and assign a few people who will be able to receive rewards for it, so it can’t be botted or mass farmed by everyone. Idk what the limit would be, but it could be anywhere from maxing from 2 players to 5 per camp. Anyone outside of these 2-5 players would receive no reward

And the non guilies who do it will still get no reward. I agree with Elthurien, the reward is full supply and upgrades done. You could do as we do in our guild, rotate on who is guarding and scouting, so no one gets stuck in a boring job.

Just give people karma for escorting yaks. I hear that’s quite valuable these days.

If supply was enough of a reward, so many people wouldn’t complain about the lack of reward. And i doubt anyone who spends a majority of their time in wvw escorting/scouting agrees with the current lack of rewards

Lightsbane.9012:

there’s a reason the reward for this is gone.
20 man groups would and did farm it for hours, regardless of what was going on in the map. you must be quite new to the game to not know it was around before.

I was under the impression that those rewards were removed because people were botting the escorts.

Elthurien.8356:

You are rewarded by having a tower/keep full of supply.

Which doesn’t feel very rewarding when you see it flipped due to coverage issues or no one sentrying it.