Every time there is a new build or patch, WvW maps are [obviously] emptied.
Organized servers / guilds can take advantage of this and take down a T3 Tower / Keep / SMC with little to know effort because players who normally would be nearby, know enemy movements, etc… are not there and are less agile to respond.
I’ve seen this happen often, seeing a Tower, deep in enemy territory speed capped with little trouble because one server was organized enough to get all their players on right after an update and rush a tower, before the other server has the manpower to defend / able get into a tower.
It’s easy to say “learn to play” or “this happens at Reset”, but I believe that a mechanism needs to put this in place to inhibit such occurrences, especially to prevent fully upgraded locations to fall faster than they should, when at Reset everything is T1.
There is unlikely an easy solution (there never seems to be when it comes to changing this game), but two ideas that don’t seem too unreasonable:
- Lock out WvW for 5-10 minutes to allow everyone the chance to update and load into the game
- Prevent new siege (aka rams and catapults) from being place for 10-15 minutes to allow players to saturate the maps again
On the grand scheme of WvW play, it probably matters little, as one might argue that if a server can organize that fast and the other server couldn’t, the location was bound to fall. But often these events can trigger a House of Cards event, where that server’s locations fall shortly after losing a strategic point. Also, no one likes losing a T3 tower when your computer takes 5-10 minutes to load into WvW
Gandara
(edited by Esprit Dumort.3109)