Guild Wars 2

As it stands, ballistas are probably the least used siege weapons in WvW owing to the (relatively high compared to arrowcarts) and low accuracy, especially on moving targets. Throw in the fact that extended ballista range is much more difficult to get (and probably makes it even less likely to hit) compared to extended arrowcart range, and we’ve got a problem.

I thought that there may be a solution; to make ballistas useful again. Give towers/keeps/SM some wall Hardpoints, which are specific positions on the wall which can have a ballista built on them, akin to a cannon mounting. When a ballista is placed in such a position, it would have greater health than its field counterpart and does not disappear as other siege weapons do. Almost like a non-structural cannon, minus the AoE.

Being placed at certain intervals along the wall may help with those cannon blindspots, and actually allow for some targeted kills, instead of just AoE spamming with arrowcarts.

Thoughts?