Guild Wars 2

I have a simple idea to bring people back into the new WvW Desert BL maps. I think it should be easy enough to implement and will help players and WvW guilds of all sizes.

Solution:
Make yaks and sentries drop WvW guild upgrade materials. One(?) random item per kill selected from the list of stuff that WvW guild upgrades need. It could be as simple as altering the loot tables…

Why:
Keep it to sentries and yaks – roamers and big groups alike can take these.
It doesn’t matter if it’s across all WvW maps (but preferably not EotM that’s too K-train anyway) – people will start to come back to farm the yaks and sentries for their upgrades. It gives roamers a purpose again. We might even get PvE farmers too. It really doesn’t matter provided it brings people into the maps. It would also start to supply some of the WvW upgrade materials (Heavy Supply bags for example) that guilds sorely need, and WvW guilds could get this part of their Guild Hall upgrades from their preferred game mode. It would help us get back to the bonuses we had pre-HoT.

I suspect you will end up with people spawn camping yaks and sentries. On the other hand this won’t be too safe as other players will know where these points are and it will lead to both small and large fights (and complaints but at least people will be in the map and fighting like they are supposed to!).