Guild Wars 2

Alright, so our group got through the outer-walls of SM. We decided to get up on the outer-walls and build some ballistae to counter some of their siege.

Every single time I tried to drop a ballista, nothing happened. I tried about 20 different times in various places, and still it wasn’t working. I then checked my inventory and saw that every time that I failed, I was also consuming ballista blueprints. I went from 40 something to 20.

So is there a particular reason I couldn’t drop ballistas? I stopped trying to get them on the edge after the first 3 times, and tried putting them directly in the center of the wall. And why would I be consuming my BP’s if nothing actually dropped?

Destructible walls eat siege.
You´ll need to place it on bits that can´t be destroyed.

Dang, that really sucks. I knew that siege couldn’t be placed on some walls, but had no idea that it consumed BPs in the process. Thanks.

Still seems pretty dumb that it will fail AND consume it. That would be a bug in my book.

I’ve also had some rams eaten by the gate, though it seems it happens when I probably put it right into the gate rather than a bit outside of it.

pixieish.9627:

I’ve also had some rams eaten by the gate, though it seems it happens when I probably put it right into the gate rather than a bit outside of it.

I can confirm this.

I know I have had this happen to me quite a few times. I believe I also reported it..

Little surprised if you didn’t know this was happening.

Yerffejy.6538:

I know I have had this happen to me quite a few times. I believe I also reported it..

Little surprised if you didn’t know this was happening.

Well, I knew that siege couldn’t be placed on some walls – but I wasn’t sure what walls they were. And I definitely had no idea that it ate the BPs in the process.

DevonCarver.5370:

I agree. I’ll see what I can do about it. No promises as it may be more complicated than it should be.

Thanks

If you can click on a wall and see it’s health don’t drop siege on it. Usually on hills keep try dropping the siege on the ramps. On garrison on corner of stairs. On bay back end of gates or corner of stairs. glhf

Also next time stop after 2nd ballista doesn’t show don’t need to test it 20 times lol.

Outer gates of valley keep in EB, on the side where the two gates are in the same arch, eat rams regularly – a problem since we tell people to place rams close to door so they can hit both.

Luvpie.8350:

Also next time stop after 2nd ballista doesn’t show don’t need to test it 20 times lol.

Hehe, I’ll keep that in mind next time. After 6 hours of commanding, I don’t think my brain was working correctly at that point.

Half of my rams are eaten by gates.

If gate eats Great Lord Flame Ram, is the Gate should be new Lord?

Funny/strange thing i notice is superior AC (what i used when i saw it) you can place at point A but not normal AC with is strange.

This was on Cragtop.

I had the same bug many times already when my world sieged SM. Any ballista I dropped on the wall simply disappeared. No building site spawned, the blueprints didn’t drop either, it just vanished from my Inventory…

What is weird about this (to me) is that it lets defending players build siege in these locations without problems, it’s just the attackers that have issue. If you’ve ever been defending a wall and manning an arrow cart you have experienced the odd sensation of standing in mid air while you and your arrow cart float where a wall use to be. :|

I don’t understand why it lets one side plant siege but eats it when the other side does, seems like it’s trying to give you an error message but then doing something else instead.

DevonCarver.5370:

I agree. I’ll see what I can do about it. No promises as it may be more complicated than it should be.

Much appreciated, thanks.

destructible walls also eat grenades

…really really annoying.