Guild Wars 2

Great changes for the better. Implement them all by all means, but in my opinion consider:

Dolyaks – Great.

Reduced cost of catapults? OK. How about giving some more love to trebuchets. They are currently the only siege that demand sallies from fortified positions. Rest can be delt with from inside the walls.

Points for kills – as a havock/roamer I love that this returns, however I much preferred the old “points for a stomp” since this promoted small scale fighting and gave a natural benefit from stomps apart from the nice visual finisher and satisfactory release of endormorphines.
I do object to points being gained from instant dps kills during zerg fights. I dont see why an entire server should be punished when easy targets get massacred in wantan mayhem ie uplevels and untalented lightskins in outmatched zerg fights involving massive AOE frontline damage where people get dps’ed to death in seconds.

I understand why you apply points to all kills and not just stomps since there is a conflict between winning the bigger fight and optimizing the score while winning, which could lead to some hate/trashtalk vs the people not bothering to stomp. That happened during the era of bloodlust.

But then please give some other AOE team bonus gained from stomps ie increased magic find boon, on stomp boon or other benefit centered on the guy managing to complete a stomp compared to the massive “… on kill” benefits that go to everyone who brainlessly partook in the ranged dpsing of a defeated person…
I got side tracked.

Reducing number of respawns from downed state upon an enemy kill – OK.
A more interesting approach or supplement would be to give the respawns a lower health at respawn and/or a 10 second “Respawn” state/buff that seriously reduces their potential power/condi damage output making them have to scramble for the hills and safety instead of instantly being able to turn the fight. At the same time increase benefit from skills/traits that revive players from downed state. Do people even use those?