Guild Wars 2

Wanted to start this thread so that I can maybe learn a few tricks for defeating Omega golems while defending. I am very good at defending, but my bane right now is Omega Golems. Before it was not an issue because they cost allot of money. Now they are like dime store candy. So I need to learn how to adapt to the new tactic. Siege on the wall is useless against an omega unless you have a ton pre-manned.
A omega can kill wall siege of any type in 2 or 3 rocket volleys.
Arrow Carts are nice but they don’t kill fast enough to be effective against a golem unless you have like 4 or 5.
Balista’s need line of sight and are easy to kill by anyone with a ranged attack.
Cata’s many times cant reach next to the wall where they are hiding or are too slow in turning,
Cannons are normally killed by any intelligent zerg before the golems are brought up. Mortars and Trebs are nice but too slow unless the golem driver does not know what he is doing.
Compound those problems with a 30 or 40 man zerge and defenders don’t stand a chance.
Any incite good or bad would be appreciated.

I know this doesn’t help but this reminds of the time where one of our commanders lead 28 Omegas across EB.

Superior treb x2 directly behind the gate.

4 guardians on rotation of wall of reflection

Superior treb behind the gate is great against alpha golems but omega golems attack from far away (I think 1500 range) and therefore won’t be hit by these trebs if you shoot the door. And as shoufer mentioned there won’t be much left to fight them because they can erase pretty much everything that is dangerous to them with a few rockets and people clear cannons before the golems come close.

LOL, the guardian Idea is good, but not realistic for off peak hours. Getting 10 players during off peak hours can be challenging at best unless you are maybe T1 or two, I have never been on the top tier servers. But unless your server is blessed with a good sized off peak population you wont get 4 of any class defending. I will use it during peak hours though nice idea. Here is hoping they don’t nerfe it like they did elementalists being able to stop treb shots. Still don’t agree with that one. Who cares if they can perma stop a treb for a half hour. 3 or 4 players are standing in one spot and not somewhere else attacking is a good thing and would make me want to treb more. If someone has the patience or organization to do it more power to them. They could have just nerfed it a bit so that the wall receive damage but not full damage.

ratamahatta.7360:

4 guardians on rotation of wall of reflection

this!

But besides guardians there are far more skills that will destroy Omegas in no time:

Mesmer – Reaction
Mesmer – Speed Wall (if traited)
Ele – should be able to stop the rockets like they used to block trebs
Guardion – Line of Reflection
Guardion – Bubble
Asura – Deff-Golem should spawn a Bubble that protects from Rockets

To kill the Omegas I prefer using conditions. Stack Bleed etc on 1 Golem and use pestilence of a Necro to share it to all Golems. With coordinated Nekros you can simply double all conditions stacked on the Golems.

To defend a Tower against Omegas is very difficult especially if you are outnumbered. If you defend a Fort let them come to the inner Ring and shoot evry siege you have build INSIDE because most Golem rushes will go straight inside without clearing any further.

I haven’t tested this method jet but Alphas als have a big bubble that protects from projectiles they should also defend from the rockets and buy you time.

greetz

You counter omega golems with.. your own golems!

This is how [HzH] deals with Omega rushes.

love the idea and when my server is at full strength we can do that. I need ideas of how to defend against them with smaller numbers. But that was a very nice tactic, just wont work in my situation now when they have superior numbers 40 plus and omegas