Guild Wars 2

Attempting to rank up through this mode because I’m getting bad experiences in normal play, and I swear it takes like 20 minutes a match to queue .

We had a guild mission last week to get a win on stronghold and we said cool this could be fun. We got a 20 min que and said naw we wont be able to get this.

Other then guild missions i dont really know anyone who plays it.

I love it, but it never pops for me anymore.

I stopped queuing for it during season 3 because one elementalist of even terrible skill level could carry a team even moreso than in conquest that season. So much so that if the other team had an elementalist and yours did not, it was an auto-loss by a large margin. I just had not bothered rechecking it.

I actually prefer stronghold as it is more engaging and is without those tiny capture points where no-skill AOE spam covering the whole point reigns supreme.

Hopefully they have some balance changes in the works and a new stronghold map soon.

(And a deathmatch mode that can be checked on and off like stronghold for courtyard and some new map with the options for 3v3 and 5v5).

Victory in Stronghold is determined by a few gimmicky mechanics that aren’t possible unless your class can exploit them.

• stack stability and channel a hero uninterrupted
• heal door breakers with ele (there is WAAAAAAY too much outgoing healing to npc’s)

It’s a fun map, but it’s not a fair fight if one team is comped for it and the other isn’t.

To much pve in a pvp and nearly no chance to flip the table when you are on the loosing side in my experience

Defence is skilless dps rushing.

Offence is skilless bunkering

I presonally prefer this mode. Imo, it brings a mix of tf2 payload race and small-scale wvw. Plus I can actually do my job as a theif, infiltrate, assasinate, steal their kitten, gtfo.

I really enjoy Stronghold, but it’s a bad case of “not enough players to build competitive teams in matchmaking”. Every match I get it’s a steamroll one way or the other, and usually ends up being a 4+1 vs 1+1+1+1+1 or something.

I only played stronghold once or twice since its release and I still don’t know the rules to win.