Guild Wars 2

Spoiler, it’s not kittening rocket science. One person goes to treb, and lays waste to first push of breakers. 98% of people you are firing at will not understand what is happening and attempt to heal through it. Treb is generally going to be capable of putting down most teams first push, and for a smart bunkery player, running all over the treb and stairs makes kiting the rare player that comes up after you a breeze. It also leaves the other 4 players to handle pushing though the gate and npc’s. This ends how to play defense in stronghold. If you are doing something else i.e. more than one person defending off the bat, fighting them in the streets, ANYTHING THAT INVOLVES MORE THAN ONE PERSON; you are doing it wrong. This leaves the other 4 to push npc’s and gates to win in less than 5 minutes. Composition makes almost no difference in stronghold, if you are playing it correctly.

One person runs supply. Exclusively breakers until the gates are down. The other three defend the breakers and buff them to get gates down fast. Hgh scrapper is awesome for bringing gates down in less than 30s. Once the gates are down, supply runner switches to archers, and defender pushes lord with the other 3. If done half awake, the other team is still fighting the second gate at best.

Go counter clockwise with the support npc’s then full burn on lord. Spam the finisher, game over. It is so easy I have thought many times that Anet would drop the male and game mode altogether. They haven’t, simply because so many players are obsessed with chasing the enemy team, and diluted to thinking that spending the match fighting the enemy as they work their way into the keep makes more sense than beating them to the Lord with fast effective offense. They counted on the sheeple, and unfortunately for those in solo q with them, the gamble paid off.

What happens when someone teleports up to you at the treb to interrupt you?
What happens when someone class counters your supply runner?

You’re right, it’s not rocket science but it is rock/paper/scissors science.

Dude, counters are based on conquest. What happens when you can’t streak through an enemy as treb? Drop from cliff and start cit cling behind. Call the target and support runner can come help if they are better than you. Treb from distance and aim for the bottle neck. Your second shot in off by the time the knockdown ends. If they get to you and chase, drop off cliff and condi breakers. Focus breakers to finish your job then kite them to team door for stacked kill. Keep them off the door and their own breakes.. every class has some level of stim break and stability now, if supp runner gets ganked, they should run….

killing the door breakers when they spawn and playing offense the rest of the time is great if your build is mobile. mobility/support/AOE damage those are what you want for stronghold. a strong early offense is the best way to go.

treb use is excellent regardless. it kills doorbreakers like no other.

basz.6129:

Composition makes almost no difference in stronghold

Well, except for when a team has those druid/tempest that can pretty much keep the first pack of doorbreakers alive to whole time unless focused by the whole team.

I think boon duration and healing affecting the doorbreakers should be heavily reduced, else the game becomes way too class dependent.

Even better. Have your team stack the supplies to ten. Cap mistc champion and use all the supplies with a single push

choovanski.5462:

mobility/support/AOE damage those are what you want for stronghold.

And in general, what class and build excels at AOE with support and mobility?

Some kind of ele? I am asking, since I have not played that kind of class.