now, i want to preface this by saying that i understand why there’s not regular quest reward for the yak escort missions. bots were cluster escorting the for the gold xp and karma, and then selling the profits. however, we have a new currency that can’t be sold or even transferred, WXP. so if the escort missions rewarded WXP, there wouldn’t be any risk of bots because there wouldn’t be any actual cash profit to be made from it. in fact, i’d say that the escort missions should reward a large than normal chunk of WXP to make up for the lack of xp, gold and karma being handed out.
and if it turns out that players are grouping up to escort the yaks….. GOOD. that’s the whole point. there’s not going to be full scale zergs escorting the yaks unless that yak absolutely needs to make it to its destination, which is good gameplay. mission accomplished. if people try doing zerg escorts to farm WXP, they’ll end up bored out of their mind, with zero badges or gold to show for it. that would last a couple of days, at most, before people went back to normal gameplay. only this time around, the people who do escort the yaks would be getting a reward for their efforts, and maybe a few other people would join them to help out.
at the very least, yak escorts could and should be part of the season achievements. those should be there to add incentive and teach new people to play the game as intended, not to steer people even further into the skid of massive full server blob karma trains. there’s far more than enough rewards for that already.