Guild Wars 2

Please do us the kindness of a 2 week poll on the break out event to determine whether or not it will stay.

Please let the players decide.

Thank you,

But then they would have to go back to the drawing board!

I am almost certain most WvWer’s do not like it and either outright hate or desperately want it scaled down and not just be a “free tower” if your 10+ people have any competency at all.

Here is some fun math for you.
10 people with +15 supply (not hard to get) = 150 supply

2 nearly free catapults / other semi free siege cost from Commander Kitten: less than 10 supply.

So, now we have 140 supply.

Regular catapult – 50 supply, so that leaves you 2 more catapults and you have 40 supply to put up another cart/balista as well.

That equals 4 shielded catapults hammering a most likely wooden fort. When the fort is wooden, the walls were 10% as the shields dropped with 4 catapults.

Now lets go back and say we use only Guild Catapults (25 supply each)

140 / 25 = 5 Guild Catapults + the 2 “free” catapults = 7 shielded catapults. Good luck not having your wooden/stone walls breached in record time. If you have Steel walls I am sure you would have an opportunity to actually attack the siege.

This call be done with a “force” of ten people who do not run for supply at all and with relative ease. Does anyone play test anything?

Haha,

I don’t want this to be a discussion of the validity of the event, but merely a plea for support of a poll determining if the content will stay or go.

I just think they should set it so they both can’t go off at the same time. i was in are borderlands the other night, and both the enemy teams where setting there breakouts to launch at the same time. which is smart, but the problem is we our in last and most of are players are doing the pve events they already outnumber us heh. all and all though i kinda like the event. it gives people a reason to defend for once and it adds a little spice to the match. just requires some tweaking

Just tell them it’s ‘farmable’ and they’ll nerf it in a heartbeat.

Activate Breakout Event, siege tower, take tower, get XP, cash, and Karma. Leave tower, tower gets re-taken by home team.
Then activate another Breakout Event, siege tower, take tower, get XP, cash, and Karma. Leave tower, tower gets re-taken by home team.
Repeat!

Got my Thief from 46-50 last night.

I think it should stay. And, farming it is no different than farming any other PvE event.
Also, it can be defeated if the tower is manned and built with some siege.

We already came to the conclusion it’s better to leave those towers to the enemy and ensure they have no supplies to upgrade- then after they have managed to upgrade them during our quiet times come along and retake them, in the meantime ensuring we use the event on their borderlands.

Net effect is a zero sum – we gain tower, they gain tower, affect on score= zero.

Also makes it more fun protecting your other assets and ofc at least one of them can be trebbed from keep so build a treb and pound away, doesn’t take long to get it back really. I’m not a fan of trebs btw, as they can be placed so they cannot be hit and gives the stronger team a bigger advantage- I’d much prefer to see mobile cannons which cannot be placed or built or moved into towers or keeps, would add a lot of tactics to the gameplay.