Guild Wars 2

So you are in second place trying to boost your war score to win the skirmish. What do you do? Attack the leader or farm the 3rd place opponent?

Farm the 3rd place guy of course. He’s the one that will give up his keeps and ppk the easiest. Often times this is the way to victory.

But does this lead to interesting competition? Nope. It leads to the 3rd place guy looking to transfer to BG or some such.

In order to encourage better competition I think we should consider scaling the scoring result based on the current match ranking. Take the first place keep is worth a bonus. Stomp a first place player and get a bonus.

If you are in third you get a double bonus.

This isn’t a bad idea, I think increasing points per kill based on server would be interesting to test out. I think that kills should add a good portion to our reward track, motivating people to kill other servers and increase the number of fights in WvW, even if it is selfish motivation. Add maybe 15-25 points per kill (you can get 195 per tick ATM) double the reward per kill (30-50 reward points per kill) when you have the outnumbered buff. Have your own death subtract a small amount from your reward track (5-10 points).