Guild Wars 2

Stronghold is a great map, i found it very very fun and entertaining..
The only think that impressed me badly is the utility difference of the 2 npcs you can cast:
-Doorbreaker
-Kitten tengu

Playing a lot of matches many has found useless build the kittens, while skritts are very useful for their big damage to the gates..
Kittens only have kittene when all gates are broken, but are not necessary to kill the enemy’s lord, while skritts are mostly the key of the team success..

However, here’s some little tips that can help the kitten to be more useful in the fight, and provide some advantages to the team who’s casting them:

Solution 1: Archers can cast Combustive shot (cd 20 sec), providing more pressure and help team fight (fire field for blasting might)

Solution 2: Archers can cast Deflecting shot on target (10 sec cd), granting blindness to enemy and short time projectile reflect

Solution 3: Archers can cast Healing spring (When they reach 50% of their hp), granting some heal to allies and a water field for increase the team sustain

Solution 4: Archers can cast Pin down (20 sec cd) on target, granting more pressure on the target and granting a little advantage to the ally team

There’s more and more solution to improve utility of the archers, don’t let they stay how they are, they risks to become soon useless, removing a gameplay option in this amazing map…
Thanks

I haven’t actually played stronghold, but one of the big things I keep hearing is how bad the archers are. How dare these tengu be allowed to bring such shame and dishonor to their families. I like all of the solutions the OP suggested as I was simply going to say put Rapid Fire on them and have it hit like it came off a power ranger, but his are more creative solutions. I think one of those solutions would not be enough and I don’t think it would be too much to allow it to do all of those things because the archer is optional anyways and you’ll be sacrificing damage on gates whenever you chose to make one.

I think they just need archers to prioritize guards over players. If I shoot the archer once, it agros to me, which is nothing cause it does nearly no damage if you are running anything other than full zerk. If they prioritize guards, you have to nuke them since you can’t just pull agro and let the guards 1 hit the wall breakers.
(Works really well on LB ranger or engineer)