Guild Wars 2

Within 15 minutes of the match starting, our left and right keeps were taken, and the enemy team captured our orb of power. All of this was done via every player on the server zerging together to a keep, then straight to the orb of power. Both of the servers tried this strategy. We did not even have enough players joined in by the start, much less where they needed to be. My friends and I attempted to defend both keeps, and there were 10 or less people defending both of them. Yes, much of this can be attributed to the ignorance of our server rushing to the south side of the map in a zerg, but such is the zerg mentality.

A proposed fix is to only allow the server owning the borderlands to move out of their base until the 5 minute mark. However, barriers would be in place in order to prevent the server owning the borderland to rush to the south end of the map.

This fix would allow defenders to get to the bases they need to defend and have time to purchase upgrades and build arrow carts.

./co-sign

usually the servers who have the heaviest presence during primetime american hours get to exploit this 110% all the time

frankly i am sick of it

and not only because Janthir is notoriously empty during American hours

but really it’s across the board, everyone who can field a sizeable force goes for the “get the borderland orb” zerg rush

yet another thing arenaNET won’t fix regardless of how stupid it is

CharliePrince.2071:

./co-sign

usually the servers who have the heaviest presence during primetime american hours get to exploit this 110% all the time

frankly i am sick of it

and not only because Janthir is notoriously empty during American hours

but really it’s across the board, everyone who can field a sizeable force goes for the “get the borderland orb” zerg rush

yet another thing arenaNET won’t fix regardless of how stupid it is

If enough people express displeasure with the situation, aNet may very well change the mechanics. I’m sure they have a lot on their plate right now, but this simple change is very important to the overall balance of WvW.