Guild Wars 2

Almost everything in WvW is an event. In the PvE, world events are subject to scaling. Right now, guard NPCs are a joke and need a revamped overhaul.

In an ideal world, guards would scale during the events when hit by a zerg. They would increase in difficulty and number based on the size of the zerg.

But, herein lies the problem: the current scaling system goes by total number of players in the area. I’m almost 100% sure that it doesn’t/wouldn’t consider friendly allies in the scaling equation.

I can solo a tower with an alpha or omega . I’ve taken a keep with 3.

Currently, undefended fortifications are not difficult to capture. Sparsely defended fully upgraded fortifications are still easily captured. Fully player defended fortification are appropriately difficult to capture.

Typically, once anywhere from a group of 5-orange swords begin assaulting any objective in wvw , guards become a non-factor.

So here is my question to Anet: will we see a change in WvW to guards? There difficulty and/or increased numbers. Because they area non factor.

No.
The guards are PvE – they are only there to make the place look busy when no-one’s about.
I say get rid of them, all of them – if a server can’t be bothered to defend it’s camps, choke points and towers properly they deserve to lose.

Contiguous.1345:

No.
The guards are PvE – they are only there to make the place look busy when no-one’s about.
I say get rid of them, all of them – if a server can’t be bothered to defend it’s camps, choke points and towers properly they deserve to lose.

Some servers don’t have high enough population at certain times of the day to even cover one camp, let alone guard everything on the map.

I don’t agree with buffing them, though; this is a PvP mode and the NPC guards should still play a minimal role.

No just no, they should patch them out entirely.

guards are there to clean up the enemys siege when they stall out for an hour smashing their faces against your 15 man turtle

no other purpose, you shouldnt expect ai to actually be able to do anything significant in pvp anyways.

Caveth.3268:

Contiguous.1345:

No.
The guards are PvE – they are only there to make the place look busy when no-one’s about.
I say get rid of them, all of them – if a server can’t be bothered to defend it’s camps, choke points and towers properly they deserve to lose.

Some servers don’t have high enough population at certain times of the day to even cover one camp, let alone guard everything on the map.

I don’t agree with buffing them, though; this is a PvP mode and the NPC guards should still play a minimal role.

If your server can’t cover one camp, it’s a pathetic server. I don’t mind giving NPCs utility skills + 5 weapon skills, but don’t scale the HP to insane levels in wvw. That is one reason why I don’t play PVE.

Seigfried.5938:

If your server can’t cover one camp, it’s a pathetic server.

Thanks, that means a ton coming from someone in T1. It’s not a moral failing, so get off your freaking high horse.

If they got rid of every NPC outside spawn, I for one wouldn’t miss it.