Guild Wars 2

Is the garrison supply drop from winning EoTM a bad mechanic because it’s basically RNG?

By the way, how does the supply drop work if Red owns Green’s garrison in Green’s BL:

• If Red wins EoTM, does Red get a supply drop there?
• If Green wins, does Red get a supply drop there?

it drops at citadel ( SPAWN POINT ON EACH HOME BORDER ) not garri.

Covis.6037:

it drops at citadel ( SPAWN POINT ON EACH HOME BORDER ) not garri.

Really!? I’ll have to look for it.

In any case I feel the randomness aspect of the supply drop makes it a bad mechanic.

Not sure what you mean by RNG. If your server’s color wins the current match, then you get the supply drop. Match outcomes may not be “predictable,” but they’re also not “random.”

Heezdedjim.8902:

Not sure what you mean by RNG. If your server’s color wins the current match, then you get the supply drop. Match outcomes may not be “predictable,” but they’re also not “random.”

RNG was bad word choice, what I meant was the lack of control over who gets the drop. Your server doesn’t have much influence over who wins EoTM considering it’s a chop suey of servers — plus, who knows how many instances of EoTM exist at a given time.

Supply drop in citadel is a way for EoTMers to say “see, we actually do something for our server”, even if not points…

The point of going in EoTM is not having a supply drop for our server, it’s having fun… The supply drop is just a little plus… And somewhat 400 supply every couple of hours really is nothing…
Not like as if any lead was “well, EoTM is now closing, so let’s wait for our supply drop”…
It’s more like “Oh, nice, take supply here, we can go directly attack a structure”

And, well, a server might have some control, like when a few of our guilds went on it at the same time and regrouped in an overflow…

But really, win or lose, it makes so little difference, that it doesn’t worry me…

If you want to have a role, tag up, drive people, defend/attack, and most of the time, if you organise your troops properly, you win the match :p…

Let’s say the mechanic was that every 4 hours one color would randomly get a supply drop at their BL citadel.

Overall, it wouldn’t make much difference in the big scheme of things, but it’s still a bad mechanic — I feel the EoTM supply drop is very much like this (not as bad as totally random supply drop, but bad nevertheless).

I think its an excellent mechanic, because it gives some minor consequence so that people who want to win EotM have an incentive, but it doesn’t really impact results. If there is no supply, usually your group can just fill up at N. Camp regardless. It really just amounts to a convenience thing.

It makes no real difference in gameplay since everyone can just ferry supply out of EOTM if they want to. This is a bad mechanic though.

It’s good and gives a great advantage to who ever receives the supply drop on reset day for wvw… Reset day in a home BL the whole BL is pretty much starved of supplies from being double teamed by 2 servers for 6+ hours.

The supply drop worthless.

Consider that anybody can go get full supply from EoTM in just 3 clicks. That’s more unbalanced than the supply drop