Guild Wars 2

What are people doing in stronghold? I feel like there’s a lot more to this game mode then I’m picking up on. It feels like a 2 point conquest right now with the map gimmick being the mist heroes that people often ignore. It really feels like most people don’t have a clue what they’re doing in SH right now, or at least the people I’ve seen play.

If you have a tip/hint/strategy post it here. I, along with a ton of other noobs, need to learn this map.

Here’s a quick list of thing’s I’ve learned:

• Door breakers are better than archers, don’t spawn archers.
• Have some one rush the enemy guards at the start
• Have someone defend your guards with the trebuchet
• Heal the lord if you can. It can’t regenerate
• Everyone else runs supply
• Spawn mist heroes if you’re on supply
• When the enemy inner door goes down, send 3-4 people. 5 seems dangerous.

From my personal experience when me an some guild ise run we normally do that same thing.
-Use all initial supply to spawn door breakers
-Send 1-2 to defend guards and kill their breakers
-2 go to enemies hate to kill heir guards and disable treb if need be
-1 goes to middle and gets more supply to run back

That’s the basics for us. If we don’t have any incoming doorbreakers the 1-2 defenders will go get supply and make more for our side. Once both gates are down we typically try and spawn 2-4 archers, and get the mist champions if we’re lucky. If the enemy haven’t spawned anything and we have at least 1 gate still up we’ll all rush their lord, if they have we send 1 back to defend while the others rush who typically, if we haven’t succeeded by said defense, will grab supply and spawn 2 more archers then head to their lord as well.

In case you didn’t know Jackums, you can chose to queue only for Conquest, Stronghold or both. If you have selected Conquest only and you get Stronghold, that is probably a bug you should report! (The options are under the Ranked Match queue button, iirc).

On topic, I’d consider we are all still noobs on Stronghold. Some tips I’d love to share:

1. (Queueing Solo) If you don’t have CC or Boon Removal, go to the Trebuchet in most cases when a Mist Essence Spawns. Trebuchet removes every Stability stack and knocks down the one who is channeling (and it’s annoying and does damage, which is good).

2. Remember that you can put boons and heal Doorbreakers, Archers, Guards… anything! Support builds can feel awesome and you feel great joy watching how the enemy hopelessly tries to kill your minions.

3. If you don’t trust your teammates, in my experience, go to the defense lane and try to secure that the enemy team doesn’t break the door (Trebuchet, killing DBs/Archer near the spawn, crippling them, etc).

4. Try to always summon the Heroes. They are really important and they bring you a lot of points which helps inmensely if the match ends to time. Also, defend him, if a Hero arrives to the Lord Room and your team is with you it’s a secure win.

5. Supply management and push timing are impactful as well. Making sure you always maintain pressure with minions on the offensive lane will gain you positional advantage.

6. Look always at the time to know when will Mist Essence spawns, as well as memorize on which side will the Mist Essence spawn.

(First Mist Essence at 12:00, spawns on the team side that has lesser points. The one at 9:00 spawns on the other side always, 6:00 and 3:00 spawns always on both sides).

7. If you are being heavily pressured, try to sneak a couple of Archers on the offensive lane. It will kill their Guards alone (if there’s any guard on their base) or, hopefully, force someone off the pressure. You see someone defends, you attack the enemy team on the defensive lane.

I think that’s all I can say for now. Hope it helps anyone!