Guild Wars 2

Here’s a video guide on scouting/defending/attacking all the borderlands towers and keeps.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLduHbZPbtobGpF6P9Xb2qO00ZguZN4DjX

Inside each video description you can find the siege placement images.

Please let me know what you think.

PS: All videos are up

Even though there was little new stuff for me to learn, i think its a great video guide for newer players. Great work!

Thank you. The other 3 towers are coming soon.

Here’s the defensive/offensive guide for placing and using siege equipment for the Briar Tower
[check the playlist video link at the top]

Catalin, this is excellent, thank you so much, please keep posting these videos for offensive and defensive siege.

Needs a sticky when you are finished

I’m glad you found the videos helpful.

Now here’s the guide for the sunnyhill, woodhaven, longview tower
[check the playlist video link at the top]

I have added siege placement map images for all videos

I have just added Cragtop to the playlist.

I have made a playlist for all the videos [check at the top]

Inside each video description you can find the siege placement images.

PS: It’s a work in progress. I will post here when new videos get added to the playlist.

I have added the garrison video. Check the youtube playlist link at the top.

Catalin.5341:

Here are the siege placement map images for Lake Tower: http://imgur.com/a/y2mLV
Here are the siege placement map images for Briar Tower: http://imgur.com/a/oRaOr
Here are the siege placement map images for SunnyHill Tower: http://imgur.com/a/oZFXk

There’s a spot in Sunny/NWT to place a treb that makes it incredibly difficult for catas on the cata ridge to hit and impossible for ballistas to hit, that still allows you to hit every spot along that ridge and destroy whatever siege they have there. I found it by accident after a guild group had speed built a ballista and 2 catas, and had taken out our ballista, wall ACs, and supply hut treb. The catas could cata into the tower and destroyed our gate treb. It was built in somewhat of a panic but I made sure to SS it for future placement.

This thing saved the kitten tower.

It’s a good spot for the treb, although it’s hard to hit their catas at sentry because of limited visibility. The treb I show in the video is placed on the ramp, but it’s placed lower so they can’t kill it with ballistas. If they decide to build ninja cataputs and bombard the entire tower’s yard to kill siege inside then that’s a bit overkill, because that can easily be accomplished with one cart (check the video at 14:32) or even with the cart at the gate.

Also everything placed on and next to the supply hut can be killed with the cart at 16:06 in the video and that cart can be built easily without any threat because it’s very far away from the tower and the camp is near.

Good spot non the less. I’m glad you find the siege game in WvW interesting.

Dont agree with you about crag/dawn/cliff

But Arenanet should limit how wide you can see when on siege.

It should not be a advantage to be lower then higher as Arenanet made it now with LOS.

Very helpful videos. I really appreciate that you explain the use of mortars and cannons. Many people have no idea how to use them and how powerful thy are for defending keeps. With some mortars and cannons you can even hit the lord room in the garrison.

Belenwyn.8674:

Very helpful videos. I really appreciate that you explain the use of mortars and cannons. Many people have no idea how to use them and how powerful thy are for defending keeps. With some mortars and cannons you can even hit the lord room in the garrison.

The last part is true, although most people make it general practice to wipe all siege before going after the lord. Those who don’t either haven’t played much or have an 80+ blob where it doesn’t really matter.

I don’t post in WvW forums really, but I wanted to say that these videos are absolutely fantastic. Good job.

The last part is true, although most people make it general practice to wipe all siege before going after the lord. Those who don’t either haven’t played much or have an 80+ blob where it doesn’t really matter.

I do mention in the video that the mortar and canons are those at inner when defending outer or the ones from the east walls when they attack the west gate. Other wise I would have said use oil when faced against rams or the canon right next to oil.

I don’t post in WvW forums really, but I wanted to say that these videos are absolutely fantastic. Good job.

Appreciate it. I already have a to-do list of how to improve all the videos I already posted, but I now want to push Hills and Bay and then do the re-edits. If I manage to finish the editing for Hills today it might be up on youtube tomorrow.

@OP , you can edit your first message and sum up all these videos…..

it is not very helpful to have all these videos in separated posts ….

you can edit your first message and sum up all these videos

Thank you for your input. I have changed the original post to have the playlist video url.

I have added the video guide for Hills. Check the playlist youtube link https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLduHbZPbtobGpF6P9Xb2qO00ZguZN4DjX

I posted new versions for Sunny, Cragtop and Lake tower. The change list is in the video comments.

New versions for garrison and hills are up, check the playlist url. I’m struggling with bay now because we have no scouts or players anymore and it’s hard to get bay to T3. So this video will take a while. Same for v2 for Briar.

New version of Briar is up

I have published the video for Bay, which means that all towers and keeps for Borderlands have videos now.