Guild Wars 2

As the subject said I think that the breakout events should require having the out-manned buff to trigger, and end the moment the server loses the out-manned buff.

While I agree with the concept of the breakout event, I think they are being abused currently. The other day a server who had lost the two upper towers on their homeland, organized a breakout event with 25+ people per side and triggered them at the same time.

While I appreciate their organization, if you can field 50+ people and have no out-manned buff you really do not need a breakout event to take a tower.

I agree with you on this point. During reset night, me and my fellow CD players managed to take over most of IoJ’s map after hours of (fun) intense fighting. We were super excited to have the north locked down (Garrison, Sunnyhill, Cragtop [Green bl].) Then, we get reports that Sunnyhill is being attacked. We go to look, and it’s basically 50+ IoJ that were using a breakout event. Now, by this time, some of our players are leaving either due to boredom from having most of the map, or just the late hour of the night, but they rolled through us extremely fast. Same thing happened at Cragtop. Then they just went and attacked (and took) their Garrison back without help from the breakout. My point being, they didn’t need a breakout event to take either of the towers, they had well over 50+ players on. It would’ve taken longer, yes, but that’s more fair.

I believe that breakout events should either be A: only caused when you are granted the outmanned buff, or B: taken out completely. They are over abused, and just make it next to impossible for a server to have complete dominance. I mean, if one server manages to completely wipe the other server, shouldn’t that mean they have the right to defend the towers and Keeps they capture?

" I mean, if one server manages to completely wipe the other server, shouldn’t that mean they have the right to defend the towers and Keeps they capture? "

that is why there are breakout-events… to grant a chance to fight back for that “wiped servers”…

Gismor.8407:

I agree with you on this point. During reset night, me and my fellow CD players managed to take over most of IoJ’s map after hours of (fun) intense fighting. We were super excited to have the north locked down (Garrison, Sunnyhill, Cragtop [Green bl].) Then, we get reports that Sunnyhill is being attacked. We go to look, and it’s basically 50+ IoJ that were using a breakout event. Now, by this time, some of our players are leaving either due to boredom from having most of the map, or just the late hour of the night, but they rolled through us extremely fast. Same thing happened at Cragtop. Then they just went and attacked (and took) their Garrison back without help from the breakout. My point being, they didn’t need a breakout event to take either of the towers, they had well over 50+ players on. It would’ve taken longer, yes, but that’s more fair.

I believe that breakout events should either be A: only caused when you are granted the outmanned buff, or B: taken out completely. They are over abused, and just make it next to impossible for a server to have complete dominance. I mean, if one server manages to completely wipe the other server, shouldn’t that mean they have the right to defend the towers and Keeps they capture?

My story from above, was your server doing it I would say its abuse is becoming pretty common place.

I don’t know if it should require the outmanned buff, but something definitely needs to be done. GoM is currently dominating WvW for us and as we were trying to retake our border land, they still had half of it and they were some how launching breakout events against our towers… Completely unfair when these guys outnumber us in our own BL and they are getting the benefit of breakout events on top of all that? These guys are currently holding all of eternal battlegrounds… WTF arenanet?