Guild Wars 2

Lots of arguments out there that gliding should be disabled when you are incombat. Also alot of arguments saying gliding into towers is OP (net/nwt alpine ex) and should be disabled. I don’t want to see any of this become a reality, since it would remove gliding from the combat circle (ground, water, air).

A very easy way to kill all these arguments though is to buff ballista 4. When I say “buff” I mean a very clear rock-paper-scissors buff. If they use paper (gliding), then we give the players the option to completely counter with scissors (balli 4).

Ex) INcrease number of targets to 10, make net shot only cast to gliding targets (ideally). Reduce cooldown to 6-10 seconds. Increase range if necessary.

Why? Because the OP’s are correct that there currently isn’t an effective counter to many of the benefits attained from gliding. Thus it seems one-sided, notably in favour of defenders since this is how territory is setup.

Note: I’m not saying siegeless zerg fights needs some1 to build a ballista to counter the aerial aspects of combat. They don’t. There are plenty of classes out there existing that can counter gliding well (ranger/druid FOR EXAMPLE)….adjust ur comp to win air fights like you would for ground or water.
The change proposed is to fix the PPT side of things.

It might be neat to have an air-to-air only balli turret, with very short cooldowns (less than 5s) and hit 5-10 targets, and make it deployable. It could also have an air barrier that knocks them out of the sky like an air shield, maybe like 1 on shield gens (that knocks multi targets out of sky), or number 2 on shield gen which can block them coming in directly.

Flak cannons would be nice.

It would be really funny to cast Feedback on the gliding person so the balli destryos itself. So much possibilities….

Hmmm an anti-gliding bali buff, that would be kinda cool.

Maybe add another skill to shield gens too, something that would just mess with gliding players, instead of damage, yank them out of the air or just immobilize mid air for a while.

Many many possibilities for interesting counterplay here. Hope some of it comes along.

hm, how is it possible that I seen superior balli without 4th skill today ?

Hanakocz.5697:

hm, how is it possible that I seen superior balli without 4th skill today ?

someone was missing his world skill in balistas tree?