Guild Wars 2

What do you guys think about massive turret team that is popping up in PvP?

I am fine with dealing 1 or 2 turret spammers on a team but 5 really irked me…

Perhaps it’s time for a debuff on these turret engi? You guys tell me what’s up.

Not so great a team that has guards, warriors, celes elementalist, bomb kit engi, condi necro easily counter turret engi team.

Basically bring lots of stability and aoe damage.

zoursour.6590:

What do you guys think about massive turret team that is popping up in PvP?

I am fine with dealing 1 or 2 turret spammers on a team but 5 really irked me…

Perhaps it’s time for a debuff on these turret engi? You guys tell me what’s up.

People have done this with Thieves, Warriors, Necros. It’s just people playing around.

Fight back with 5 spirit rangers or 5 hambow war

There is nothing wrong with turret engis. They are annoying for unexperienced players, that´s all.

No high level team would ever use such a passive build. I remember an esl weely final where a team tried it versus us with 5 turret engis and they couldn´t do anything.

^^An easy way to combat a really bunky team is to run a high burst set up. So that’s the normal shatter mesmer, thief etc., but also builds like zerker staff ele and zerker necro become viable against teams like this.

The problem all comes down to how soloQ and gw2 in general works.

This is not like dota or LoL where you can accurately expect what composition your team/enemy is going to be when you que up and see what “hero/profession” they picked.

Without the ability to be mentally prepared, you will always have a messy group set up for pick up games, and some builds will always work better in this kind of chaos. IMO this kind of pvp is hard to observe for entertainment and will be hard to be popular in esports for the general public.

Of course for the long term PvP-ers, it’s more easy to quickly grasp the meta builds and see through the composition, but I think that’s one in few.

It is a fairly cheezy build/composition. A lot of people may say it’s not the best team, l2p etc. but in truth it is a very rewarding comp, for little effort. With the boons the turrets give out, not to mention all the projectile/knockback spam it becomes pretty difficult to focus out any of the engis, particularly when they are using the melandru runes/ soldiers, so the fact they don’t have condi cleanse or stun breakers is a non issue. Put in a single bunker support guard into the mix and you’ve got a recipe for —- more cheese.

Things to counter this comp include using damage cheese (staff/frost bow ele, well zerker nec), or hard hitting mobile comps. You usually will not want to initialize the match into the mid fight where they will be strongest (elite crate aoe stun all being ready for everyone).

Please give turrets the smiter’s boon treatment. Builds like this have no place in a pvp environment.

People play engi simply because the turret spec is the easiest thing to play right now.