Guild Wars 2

I know this has been discussed to death and fallen on absolutely deaf ears, but let’s do it again!

First, troll guilds are annoying. We’ve got one on our server called Anal Razer Charrs or something. No doubt about it, seeing Garri claimed within 30 seconds on reset night by a guild you know will never have buffs running is super annoying.

Second, sometimes guilds have their buffs run out but they’ve still got a claim on a keep. It happens. Still though, in a crunch defending garri from the enemy it’d be nice to be able to throw buffs up.

The basic problem in both of these cases is that claiming the keep lasts until either the keep is flipped or the claiming guild claims something else on the same Borderland. Since the entire point of claiming a keep is to provide buffs (yeah, you get your guild banner there but no one has any idea who it belongs to because the game doesn’t say, you have to go to a timer site or something), claiming a keep should be tied to and bounded by duration of guild buffs.

My suggestions are super super simple:

1. If your guild is not running any buffs, you can’t claim the keep.
2. If your guild has claimed a keep, when your buffs expire, the claim can be overridden by another guild running buffs.

We can get more complex for sure but I think given how utterly inattentive downright, shamefully neglectful ANet is to the WvW game mode, simple solutions seem more likely adopted than complicated.

+1

Like the OP said it’s been suggested before. I 100% support this. Hopefully Anet still reads these forums.