Guild Wars 2

Running supply yaks can be the bane of many a WvW match. Many players don’t want to take the time to guard a yak as it drops supplies off at the various towers and keeps on it’s route. Maybe, if the players were to get a reward for guarding yaks, this would change. Basically what I am saying it, players deserve to be rewarded with exp, coins, or whatever for guarding yaks. It’s an integral part of wvw, and should be recognized as such.

The dilemma is that they used to, but people would have bots that would follow the yaks giving them rewards for doing nothing… which is what gold farmers cheer at. So to stop that, they cut everyone off, making Yak guarding 100% pointless unless you took it on yourself to give up XP, WXP, gold, mats, etc to make sure that yak gets there to get that upgrade.

However thinking about it, I’ve thought of a few rewards that would work.

Escorting a Yak earns you supply according to Bronze (2), Silver (5) and Gold (10). Essentially a way to pick up supply without going to a camp and aids that tower without draining it. I also consider XP and WxP as viable reward options as XP isn’t a big deal and WxP doesn’t help gold farmers… so if real players decide to try to bot some WxP, they can have it axed if caught.

Doing that would give escorting yaks not only some personal point, but additional strategic value even if the base is full.

many of us in BG do this kind thing, from ZD, Coin at and mostly militia. we all do our ways to help. i think recognition already comes from upgrading your structures and ppt. it may be tedious work but still contributes to the score.

Ya its one of those thankless jobs like refreshing siege and scouting… Vital to victory, but at a cost of personal gain. I personally think WEXP should absolutely be rewarded… That has no value to gold farmers. Our guild takes it on itself to reward those jobs monetarily by identifying the scouts and compensating them for the time spent with gold, dyes etc. But it would be much better if the game made those doing it feel like they were earning something, plus the biggest reward for a WvWer is WEXP, and we can’t share that.

In my opinion escorting dolyaks is almost useless, I’ve never been killed by an escorter and I was always able to kill the dolyak.

I think the best thing is preventing to enemy players to bee around the zone by hounting them, I find guarding a “sector” is more helpfull than actually escorting dolyaks since you can do more things and better

sminkiottone.6972:

In my opinion escorting dolyaks is almost useless, I’ve never been killed by an escorter and I was always able to kill the dolyak.

head of nail? meet hammer. Defending Doylaks is just tossing a run buff on them. The HP they have is too low for serious defense as you guard against a dedicated opponent. You’re stuck almost stationary with that yak if you defend it so even if you have the advantage in combat your opponent needs only regroup away from the yak and come back in.

I’d actually like to see an active buff to yak+ players when escorting. Something that makes it hard to kill the things. If they’re roaming without support=no buff, easy kill as always. But if someone is taking the time to escort, its depressing to see how fast they drop.

There’s more than run buffs. Heal blasts and regen, stealth, aegis and stability. Escorting isn’t always a 1 man job depending on who’s doing the hunting and how desperate a keep is for supply.