Objective upgrade

Objective upgrades improve defenses and add services to World versus World objectives.

Mechanics

The interface for automatic upgrades.

The interface for guild claiming upgrades.

Available upgrades and tier progress is displayed in a panel by clicking the objective map icons or talking to quartermasters.

• Automatic Upgrades improve the structures' gates, walls, guards, supply depots, and bring additional siege weapons and services to the location.
  • Each objective has 3 tiers: Secured, Reinforced, and Fortified. They occur after having delivered or received a certain number of dolyak caravans.
  • Upgrades available to objectives depend on the objective type: Camp, Tower, Keep, Castle
• Guild Claiming allows guilds to claim an objective, allowing Tactics to be slotted and activated in the location.
  • Each upgrade must be unlocked in the War Room to gain access to the scribe recipe. Then a Scribe must create a schematic and process it through the Assembly Device.
  • There are 3 tiers for upgrades: Tier I unlocks 10 minutes after claiming and holding the objective, Tier II after 30 minutes and Tier III after 60 minutes.
  • Any player with sufficient guild permissions may slot an upgrade into its defined tier consuming the associated schematic from the war chest of the player's guild.
  • Only the Claimant guild can remove tactics.
  • Types of upgrades:
    • Improvements — passive bonuses that improve gates, walls, and provide bonus effects to allies
    • Tactics — active bonuses that can be triggered by the objectives' tactivators
  •  Guild Objective Auras are unlocked effects that passively increase allies' attributes and other effects while in the area of a claimed objective. Each effect is unlocked in tiers, maintaining the bonuses of the previously unlocked effects. The effect can be doubled by using the improvement Presence of the Keep.
    •   Objective Aura 1: Supply Capacity (effect) — Max Supply +5
    •   Objective Aura 2: WvW Experience (effect) — WvW Experience +10%
    •   Objective Aura 3: Movement Speed (effect) — Movement speed +25%
    •   Objective Aura 4: Power (effect) — Power +100
    •   Objective Aura 5: Precision (effect) — Precision +100
    •   Objective Aura 6: Toughness (effect) — Toughness +100
    •   Objective Aura 7: Vitality (effect) — Vitality +100
    •   Objective Aura 8: Magic Find (effect) — Magic Find +20%

List of objective upgrades

Automatic upgrades

Tier	Upgrade		Description
Camp
Secured (15 dolyaks)		Caravan Guards	Recruits guards to escort the camp's dolyak caravans.
	Storage Expansion	Increases the objective's maximum supply hold size by 150.
Reinforced (30 dolyaks)		Additional Guards	Recruits additional guards to protect the objective.
	Guard Training	Increases the level of all guards at the objective.
Fortified (60 dolyaks)		Recruit Patrol	Recruit guards to patrol the objective.
	Storage Expansion	Increases the objective's maximum supply hold size by 100.
Tower
Secured (15 dolyaks)		Build Pot of Oil	Fortifies the objective with a pot of burning oil.
	Build Cannon	Fortifies the objective with a cannon.
	Recruit Outfiter	Recruits a general-goods vendor to the objective.
	Storage Expansion	Increases the objective's maximum supply hold size by 200.
Reinforced (30 dolyaks)		Reinforced Walls	Increases the health and defense values of the objective's walls and gates to reinforced levels.
	Build Mortar	Fortifies the objective with a mortar.
	Recruit Siegemaster	Recruits a siege-weapon vendor to the objective.
	Additional Guards	Recruits additional guards to protect the objective.
Fortified (50 dolyaks)		Fortified Walls	Increases the health and defense values of the objective's walls and gates to fortified levels.
	Recruit Patrol	Recruit guards to patrol the objective.
	Guard Training	Increases the level of all guards at the objective.
	Storage Expansion	Increases the objective's maximum supply hold size by 200.
Keep & Castle
Secured (20 dolyaks)		Build Pots of Oil	Fortifies the objective with pots of burning oil.
	Build Cannons	Fortifies the objective with cannons.
	Additional Guards	Recruits additional guards to protect the objective.
	Storage Expansion	Increases the objective's maximum supply hold size by 200.
Reinforced (40 dolyaks)		Reinforced Walls	Increases the health and defense values of the objective's walls and gates to reinforced levels.
	Build Mortars	Fortifies the objective with mortars.
	Recruit Services	Recruits a siege-weapon vendor, a banker, and an armor repairer to the objective.
	Recruit Patrols	Recruit guards to patrol the objective.
Fortified (80 dolyaks)		Fortified Walls	Increases the health and defense values of the objective's walls and gates to fortified levels.
	Build Waypoint	Fortifies the objective with a waypoint.
	Guard Training	Increases the level of all guards at the objective.
	Storage Expansion	Increases the objective's maximum supply hold size by 250.
Secured (40 dolyaks)		Build Pots of Oil	Fortifies the objective with pots of burning oil.
	Build Cannons	Fortifies the objective with cannons.
	Additional Guards	Recruits additional guards to protect the objective.
	Storage Expansion	Increases the objective's maximum supply hold size by 200.
Reinforced (70 dolyaks)		Reinforced Walls	Increases the health and defense values of the objective's walls and gates to reinforced levels.
	Build Mortars	Fortifies the objective with mortars.
	Recruit Services	Recruits a siege-weapon vendor, a banker, and an armor repairer to the objective.
	Recruit Patrols	Recruit guards to patrol the objective.
Fortified (100 dolyaks)		Fortified Walls	Increases the health and defense values of the objective's walls and gates to fortified levels.
	Build Waypoint	Fortifies the objective with a waypoint.
	Guard Training	Increases the level of all guards at the objective.
	Storage Expansion	Increases the objective's maximum supply hold size by 250.

Guild claiming

Guild members with the appropriate permissions can upgrade Objectives with both Tactics and Improvements utilising the contents of their War Chest.

Improvements

Tier	Tactic	Availability	Description
(Hold for 10min)	Sabotage Depot	All objectives	Deploy bombs at the supply depot that will explode if the objective is captured by an enemy team. The explosion will destroy all remaining supply at the objective.
	Hardened Gates	Towers, Keeps, Castle	Greatly reduces nonsiege weapon damage to gates. Hardened Gates
	Armored Dolyaks	Camps	Dolyaks gain increased health and toughness.
	Packed Dolyaks	Camps	Dolyaks now carry twice as much supply.
	Speedy Dolyaks	Camps	Dolyaks gain superspeed.
(Hold for 30min)	Iron Guards	All objectives	Guards gain Iron Hide, reducing incoming damage by 50%.
	Hardened Siege	Towers, Keeps, Castle	Greatly reduces non-siege weapon damage to cannons, mortars, and oil pots.
(Hold for 60min)	Auto Turrets	Towers, Keeps, Castle	Automatic turrets deployed above the objective's gates.
	Watchtower	Towers	A spy balloon is deployed above the tower, which will mark nearby enemies on the map.
	Presence of the Keep	Keeps	Allied players gain double the effectiveness of the keep's objective aura while within the perimeter of the keep.
	Cloaking Waters	Stonemist Castle	The fountains in the castle's courtyard grant stealth to allies.

Tactics

Tier	Tactic	Availability	Description
(Hold for 10min)	Minor Supply Drop	All objectives	Activate this Tactic to have 200 supply deposited at the objective.
	Healing Mist	All objectives	Activate this tactic to temporarily summon machines that will heal allies at the objective.
	Invulnerable Dolyaks	Camps	Activate this Tactic to make the next set of dolyaks invincible, guaranteeing that they will reach their destination.
	Dune Roller	Camps	Activate this tactic to summon a dune roller at your objective. The user is transformed into a car, granting them increased mobility and siege damage.
(Hold for 30min)	Centaur Banner	Towers, Keeps, Castle	Summon a Centaur Banner at your objective. This banner provides the wielder access to powerful offensive skills, as well as a break bar.
	Turtle Banner	Towers, Keeps, Castle	Summon a Turtle Banner at your objective. This banner provides the wielder access to powerful defensive skills, as well as a break bar.
	Dragon Banner	Towers, Keeps, Castle	Summon a Dragon Banner at your objective. This banner provides the wielder access to powerful offensive skills, as well as a break bar.
(Hold for 60min)	Emergency Waypoint	Towers, Keeps, Castle	Activate this tactic to temporarily create a uncontestable waypoint at the objective.
	Siege Dampener	Towers, Keeps, Castle	Activate this tactic to temporarily make all walls and gates take reduced siege damage.
	Airship Defense	Stonemist Castle	Activate this tactic to temporarily summon a fleet of airships to protect the castle from invaders.

Notes

• Objective upgrades are not available for structures in Edge of the Mists.
• Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns removed structure upgrades and replaced them with objective upgrades.

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