Guild Wars 2

I have a half formed idea right now, would like to hear everyones thoughts on the pros and cons for this.

I was wondering how it would play out if they replaced the dino event with a cannon that you manually had to operate like skyhammer. It could only fire on 1 gate at a time and it took gates out at the same speed as 1 sup ram. I imagine this would be something roamers would constantly fight over.
If you are on blue bl and you see it’s a enemy from the green server using it you could either attack him or figure out which objective he is hitting and try to steal it.
While your main force is attacking a keeps outer a couple roamers could use they skyhammer to start on the inner gate, or fire at another keep to contest the wp/ cause a distraction.

I could be wrong but I feel like the slow speed at which it takes down a gate would keep it from being overpowered. It’s also not something you would camp a zerg on since it would be more efficient for them to use multiple rams/catas directly on an objective.

The main thing is this would force people to come out in the open and fight rather than camping siege on a wall, and it removes a little bit of the silly PvE from the map.

Thoughts?

Sorry Puck… i hate anything that has to do with SkyHammer. T_T thinking about it haunts me to the core.

Dino event… is that the thing in the Oasis??

Simon.3106:

Sorry Puck… i hate anything that has to do with SkyHammer. T_T thinking about it haunts me to the core.

Dino event… is that the thing in the Oasis??

Yup. You farm a bunch of pve mobs to activate a skyhammer that simultaneously fires on every gate on the map. It fully opens paper gates and takes upgraded ones down to about 50%

I’m trying to come up with something less….. terrible…. but still keep it close enough that anet might consider it.

I think they can keep the event, but just give a reward chest and remove the canon

Well, I’m sure the main point of that event is to make us think: Should I defend this tower? If I do, the invaders will get that Oasis thing and blow up our gates. If I go out there, that will leave us defenseless!

Etc… Which would you pick? What would be your priority? Are you sure this is the right move? Because the wrong move might just cost you your fortress. >=) Sounds delectable no?

It sounds nice at first but I think this would also heavily support the stronger server.

Say you are 40v70 defending your keep. They can’t get in because you have too many people using siege, but you also have no chance in an actual confrontation.

Now they only need to go to the Skyhammer, camp it with 70 guys, shoot down your gates and steamroll your group because you don’t have any chance to defend yourself.

Entenkommando.5208:

It sounds nice at first but I think this would also heavily support the stronger server.

Say you are 40v70 defending your keep. They can’t get in because you have too many people using siege, but you also have no chance in an actual confrontation.

Now they only need to go to the Skyhammer, camp it with 70 guys, shoot down your gates and steamroll your group because you don’t have any chance to defend yourself.

That’s why I said make it go as slow as 1 sup ram. Think about how long that takes on a fortified gate, I don’t see many zergs willing to camp the middle of the map that long.

If they did it gives the defending server a ton of time to call people in or to do hit and run attacks on the group

and it definitely benefits the larger server a lot less than the current version does

Q: Hasn’t the center of the borderlands map been a fail since launch? This is just another fail, imo. As long as the WvW Devs ignore players, the center of the map will always be a failure. At least the ruins actually did something semi-worthwhile for other players.

I do like your idea. As it is now, that thing is just a waste of time. Would be nice if the Devs actually explained why they put it there in the first place, how exactly it was meant to be used, and by whom.

Fellfoot.8156:

Q: Hasn’t the center of the borderlands map been a fail since launch?

Yes.
Really not shooting for a win here, just trying to go for less of a fail lol.
For some reason anet really loves their skyhammer since they keep shoving it in every game mode, figured I might as well run with that theme.

Someone else suggested to remove it and put a neutral zone there… with cross server say chat. I like that idea too. Could you imagine the trash talking and fights that’d soon there after take place?

Fellfoot.8156:

Someone else suggested to remove it and put a neutral zone there… with cross server say chat. I like that idea too. Could you imagine the trash talking and fights that’d soon there after take place?

I’d love that idea if they gave us a dueling mode. But I doubt either will happen.

@Puck

Like the idea! Still got to get some more experience with the event myself before I can come up with any ideas for myself.

Also like the idea of actually having a dueling area, or something similar, perhaps an arena of some sort, where you get points for winning fights.