Food/ banners dropped on tactivators
Sounds like a good strategy to combat the stupid game mechanics. kitten the tactivators.
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Yes, it’s a great tactic when you know the enemy vastly outnumbers you. What better way to delay a blob than to make it difficult to pull the emergency way point.
You don’t win a battle by fighting fairly. Every general will tell you this. I like a good fight like every other commander. But I like to know I have a certain advantage. Good commanders put themselves in an advantageous position to try and obtain victory. What better way than to prevent the sudden arrival of 40+ defenders. Nothing better than the keep flipping just as the enemy blob runs through or up to the gate because they couldn’t port in via the EWP.
OP, WvW is about tactics, tactics, tactics.
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I would love for them to get rid of the tactivators and bring back bannering the lord instead. However with the emergency way point it is easy to farm bags even outnumbered as their is a loading time where they are spawning in when you can hit them and they are defenseless. Seen so many zergs dying when emergency waypointing in.
There should be an option to autoreject trays/feasts if you have a food active
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Emergency bag farm ftw
I’m going to assume this is directed at Maguuma because I’ve seen our groups do this a lot on the tactivators in SMC.
While I agree it’s a little cheap, I also agree with the others here, kitten tactivators.
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@OP; this is the thing that makes you sad and makes you lose all hope in humanity?
Well here’s a plot twist: THAT very idea that such a thing would cause such a reaction makes ME sad.
Now the next person can be sad that some1 would get sad from some1 getting sad over something that some1 thought was trivial. Then some1 can be sad the next person was sad over the some1 getting sad over the that something that some1 thought was trivial.
Then some1 can be sad that everyone could be sad from the idea of some1 else’s sadness having any bearing on anothers sadness. Then that one guy can be sad that were all sad….on an emotional level, the one compassionate gal in this conversation.
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Anyways I think its cool that people are utilizing every available tactic at thier disposal in this manner. Let’s face it, the game enabled very little of this tactical strategy work. People using their heads a little outside the box leads to this kind of tactics? I think its a good thing, shows anet we don’t all want to play like sheeple. Problem isn’t people being rude or jerks…..its that they don’t have enough to think about when playing the mode as anet intends.
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You don’t win a battle by fighting fairly. Every general will tell you this. I like a good fight like every other commander. But I like to know I have a certain advantage. Good commanders put themselves in an advantageous position to try and obtain victory. What better way than to prevent the sudden arrival of 40+ defenders. Nothing better than the keep flipping just as the enemy blob runs through or up to the gate because they couldn’t port in via the EWP.
OP, WvW is about tactics, tactics, tactics.
And an even better com knows that true victory comes from outclassing and out skilling your enemy in combat, not by doing anything possible to avoid said fight. (Assuming you are equal numbers ofc) Let them come and enjoy the additional loot.
In wvw there is a difference between getting a “fair” advantage that any side can get like good positioning, movement etc and “unfair” advantages like using 20ac’s in addition or avoiding the enemy in the first place. The latter is what you shouldn’t use.
All we wanted was a GvG.
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There is a not assigned keyboard commando, called “select next friend”, probably it works on tactivators as well.
How does using tactivators make it a fair fight. They are gimmicks that have nothing to do with an actual fight.
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You don’t win a battle by fighting fairly. Every general will tell you this. I like a good fight like every other commander. But I like to know I have a certain advantage. Good commanders put themselves in an advantageous position to try and obtain victory. What better way than to prevent the sudden arrival of 40+ defenders. Nothing better than the keep flipping just as the enemy blob runs through or up to the gate because they couldn’t port in via the EWP.
OP, WvW is about tactics, tactics, tactics.
And an even better com knows that true victory comes from outclassing and out skilling your enemy in combat, not by doing anything possible to avoid said fight. (Assuming you are equal numbers ofc) Let them come and enjoy the additional loot.
In wvw there is a difference between getting a “fair” advantage that any side can get like good positioning, movement etc and “unfair” advantages like using 20ac’s in addition or avoiding the enemy in the first place. The latter is what you shouldn’t use.
Sorry to break it to you, most commanders want the EWP blocked when entering a keep. They’ll welcome a force coming through the door and fight it, but not a sudden map queue. You see preventing the use of the EWP IS out “skilling” the enemy. Avoiding a fight isn’t the issue, it’s avoiding a wipe. In keeps the EWP is on inner, so you have to get through 2 walls to reach it. If the enemy hasn’t pulled the EWP before you get in then it’s tough-kitten for them, they were dumb.
In some of the fights we’ve had the enemy runs away even when they outnumber us. They run to a tower or keep and try to get us into siege range. It’s a legit tactic, but a wimpy one. Blocking a EWP isn’t wimpy, btw. Since we’re inside their current structure we want them to have just as hard a time getting to us as we may have had getting through their defenses – that’s only “fair”. We’d rather have a"fair" fight on open ground rather than getting map queued down because we were being “fair” and letting them use the EWP. We aren’t avoiding a fight, we’re delaying it so we can try and take the objective. Remember, if we have “equal” numbers, not all will be fighting the incoming enemy. Some will be taking down the keep lord. So now we aren’t equal.
WvW is about taking objectives and defeating your enemy as quickly as possible. Otherwise we wouldn’t see certain servers running around in 40+ toon blobs.
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On a side note: siege can be destroyed but tactivators cannot.
So in some strange world we shouldn’t destroy siege since it wouldn’t be “fair”, right?
Blocking the tactivators is similar to destroying siege. Think of it that way.
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I actually saw a dragon banner used last week. It’s been some time since I’ve seen one of those used. I thought that was something everyone agreed was bad for the game and stopped using them. I felt pity for the other side’s players who had to play with the banner.
It’s funny how the players prefer vanilla WvW. Maybe we should have a poll about this.
I actually saw a dragon banner used last week. It’s been some time since I’ve seen one of those used. I thought that was something everyone agreed was bad for the game and stopped using them. I felt pity for the other side’s players who had to play with the banner.
It’s funny how the players prefer vanilla WvW. Maybe we should have a poll about this.
Yep, the server we’re fighting right now used 4 or more today to fight us. They became bags.
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I’m going to assume this is directed at Maguuma because I’ve seen our groups do this a lot on the tactivators in SMC.
While I agree it’s a little cheap, I also agree with the others here, kitten tactivators.
Nonsense. My guild has a guy who drove up the price of Feast of Clam Cakes back in Feb-March. Think this is the second or third time I seen someone post about it here.
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better stop complaining and take a bite from that tasty soft saffron bread on top of your emergency waypoint tactivator
That’s actually funny.
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How does this actually work? Do you throw down food on top of an enemies tactivator? I thought only your servers could interact with your food?
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How does this actually work? Do you throw down food on top of an enemies tactivator? I thought only your servers could interact with your food?
Generic items like guild banners and food trays can be interacted by any player.
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How does this actually work? Do you throw down food on top of an enemies tactivator? I thought only your servers could interact with your food?
Nope, you can use any food dropped by any player and it’s the same for banners. If it allows any player to interact with it in PVE then you can interact with it in WvW. The only things you can’t use in WvW are the other servers’ siege weapons, tower and keep portals, WPs, tactivators, supply, and spell effects like the mesmer’s portal(one of the few exceptions to the anything you can interact with rule).
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