Guild Wars 2

I spent all my WvW ability points on cannons, not realizing that they are rarely accessible and get obliterated in a few seconds after they are up. Now, while I am waiting for the next possible respec, are there any places in WvW where I can make use of my (ill) spent cannon points?

Nope. Unless you like waiting for extremely long periods hoping someone will come along.

First target for any siege that might be contentious from nearby Cannons is the Cannons.

Cannons are useful mostly as a method of slowing down or dettering forces you already know are coming. So a scout says (big group inc to our keep) you can waypoint back and be on the cannon before they even enter line of sight. at that point you start firing before they even have eyes on your cannons and hopefully break there momentum. They aren’t meant to stop a force completely. Just to make them hesitate for a moment in order to buy time. They ARE powerful which is why there often targeted early. Being able to be on the cannon before the enemy is even in range of it will up the effectiveness alot.

TL;DR cannons are useful as long as you have people keeping eyes on anything heading to your keep. Id say there most useful in higher tier servers where you can have a zerg ready to engage them outside of your walls. This keeps the enemy in your killing zone.

You won’t often get use out of them but it’s fun when you do. Cannon master does some pretty heavy damage.

Some keeps can use inner cannons to cover outer gates from inside.

good learning experience.

Points wasted matter less as you play longer. Go be a silver general or something.

Don’t spec into Siege Golems unless you’re running with a WvW guild too. You’ll almost never get the chance to drive one if you’re a WvW casual like me.

Go build a canon at one of the ruins. Cap said ruin. Hide at canon on top said ruin. Have fun.

IF your server is blue, go to eotm and build the southern outer cannons. IF the enemy zerg comes to cap the forge, wait until they are at the champ and then start firing.
You will usually get around 20 players killed until they realize whats happening and someone comes over to kill you.
Inner cannon is a loot machine as well, if any zerg dares to go there.

Canon is great fun, get your condition necro out, then hit people with “grapeshot”. 10 stacks of bleed ticking at over 100 per tick. People melt….

Canons covering dolys and sentries are best. Thieves really struggle with 10 stacks of bleed and can’t cap a sentry point while invis, it won’t stop them trying and dying though =P

The cannon covering the Garrison watergate is one of the best pieces of siege in the game. Well worth speccing into cannons just for that one.

Zaxares.5419:

Don’t spec into Siege Golems unless you’re running with a WvW guild too. You’ll almost never get the chance to drive one if you’re a WvW casual like me.

Get traveler runes, Transfer to NSP and jump on teamspeak. Were always needing golem drivers w/ runes.

Go directly to Applied Fortitude and do not pass go.

use an alt

BlazeQ.1095:

Zaxares.5419:

Don’t spec into Siege Golems unless you’re running with a WvW guild too. You’ll almost never get the chance to drive one if you’re a WvW casual like me.

Get traveler runes, Transfer to NSP and jump on teamspeak. Were always needing golem drivers w/ runes.

Appreciate the offer, but I’m a Toaster for life.

You eventually will max all traits anyway. It doesn’t take too long.