Guild Wars 2

Yaks are pretty much useless right now. They give occasional supply, but they are less needed than ever as a part of the whole WvW exerpience.

I think this is a shame, because some fun yak-related shenanigans could be added to the game.

Recommendations:

Defensive:
-Ridable yaks that give ranged weapon slot skills. Have a shiled yak that can a player than can defend it while they are on the yak. Don’t have the yak controllable by the player, just allow the player to use a set of ranged skills (and have damage reduction) so that they can defend the yak. IMO, a person should be able to defend a yak 1v1 easily if they take the time to actually walk yaks. It isn’t rewarding, so at least give people that.

Offensive:
-Trojan yaks. If yaks are unguarded, give enemy players a chance to hide a player on the yak (so it just looks like a yak). Friendly players can “check” yaks by just walking up and shielding them, and if an enemy player is there, it will force the enemy player out of the yak. If a yak reaches a tower or a keep, the enemy player inside the yak will get put into the keep. Each new yak should only have to be “checked” once, and no enemy player should be able to get into that same yak after it was checked, until a new yak spawns. This would prevent abuse from zergs just guarding an enemy yak and getting a player inside a keep. But if friendly players just ignore yaks, it will allow enemies to sneak into towers and keeps. It would create another random/fun element in WvW.

A hilarious and fun idea but won’t be implemented for obvious reasons

Chemical Rush.2569:

Yaks are pretty much useless right now.

Have to disagree.

• Yaks are the difference between a structure upgrading in 90 minutes instead of 6 hours.
• Every yak that reaches its final destination gives 3 points (north camp yaks are a ppt machine.) Every yak that is killed en-route gives 3 points.
• Yaks carry less supply, so you need more of them to keep supply levels up.

That being said, they could do more with yak escorting. Perhaps a yak that is escorted long enough eventually turns into a better version of the yak. For example, an upgraded yak could slightly repair the gates that it arrives at.

I think they should dump the timer and make it so a certain amount of yaks have to get to the objective for it to upgrade..