Guild Wars 2

Biggest pet peeve in WvW is when all of the pugs on a server abandon a tower as soon as the wall goes down. There have been times where it’s like everyone from my server just disappeared as soon as the gate opened. Usually ends with me dead on the floor of the lords room, when probably had enough people to defend successfully before everyone ran.

It goes the other way, too. There have also been a few times when I was trying to take a tower with ~10 people, and the defenders massively outnumbered us. It’s kinda sad when the defenders just vanish, letting you take the tower with zero effort (and they could have wiped us easily).

I know the WXP system is pretty bad (no points for supporting your team, etc.), but hopefully in a new update we can get like a 200 WXP reward for dying in the circle at the lords room. I feel like this would really improve the fights for towers, and be a strong incentive for pugs to actually engage in defensive play (rather than just run from the repair fees).

• Edit… not gonna necro this thread, but giving WXP to defenders who actually fight to the death is a vast improvement to the people who think its more rewarding to simply abandon ship so that they don’t have to pay repairs. Doesn’t necessarily have to be 200WXP, but just enough to make it worth it to stay and defend to the end rather than run.

Congratulations for the Worst Idea of the Week!

Now not only we will have zergs doing karma train to tag kills, standing for minute in Guard circle while 50m away other part of the zerg is wiped etc. – but a new hotness: people standing behind afk to die, since it gives WXP!!

Defending Keeps/towers is already one of most easy ways to get WXP – pay attention to “defend X” events – all you need is either kill some attacker or even easier – repair some wall or something. Thats all you need to get WXP. And you can do that repeatedly within one defence (i.e. attackers get WXP only if they take Tower, you get it every X minutes defending).

Interesting – so if you die in a tower you get 200 wxp, but for the people who took the tower they only get 150 wxp…..

You already get wxp when defending and losing a tower just not as much as taking one.

Next suggestion I guess would be to give wxp to the player who constantly dies……