Guild Wars 2

There is presently no defense against a well executed golem rush. Arrow Carts can’t stop them, and smart attackers nail the cannons 15 seconds before the Alphas smash the door.

Anet, we need a third Trap. Land Mines. That only go off if an Alpha/Omega is driven over them.

Build a trebuchet behind the door. Can stop up to 3 alpha golems with just one defender on a trebuchet behind a reinforced door. Almost every door in a T2 keep or tower in SoR/JQ/BG has a trebuchet.

I second the trebs. Also, in hills, don’t ever forget that inner north cannon if they are on the N gate. If you’re already to the cannons stage, it’ll wreck face.

Kill everybody supporting the golems -> kill the golems. Siege for defense is just fluff. Almost no door in our server has any siege at all :P

I do like the mines idea however. Of course, then the idea will be to send a solo golem first to pop the mines and have the rest follow after. But mines could be fun.

Golems move themselves very little as it is already. Mines would only make the mesmer portal chains even more used.

Put portal down → one golem goes in → Explosion? → Other golems follow → Profit

Simple answer: obviously ACs need to be buffed so that they CAN stop a Golem rush.

No, arrow carts are overpowered already. The landmines are a good idea though. Or maybe something like an EMP burst trap that disables all the golems in a certain radius leaving them stunned for an extended period of time.

Nikkinella.8254:

No, arrow carts are overpowered already. The landmines are a good idea though. Or maybe something like an EMP burst trap that disables all the golems in a certain radius leaving them stunned for an extended period of time.

Ooh, I like that. The “Extreme Mechano-magical Purge” mine that focuses on the energies binding golems together. It could work!

Mortars and cannons tear through golems. Both are conveniently set up to aim at nearly all gates. If there is a gate, there is either a cannon or mortar (or both) that can hit it from afar.

VOLKON.1290:

I do like the mines idea however. Of course, then the idea will be to send a solo golem first to pop the mines and have the rest follow after. But mines could be fun.

Which is the sign of a good feature. It serves a purpose but there is a work around if you know what you are doing.

I like this idea, as the current availability of traps are a complete joke.

This would be a logical reaction to the increased availability of cheap and affordable golems that are less than the cost at the vendor (which isn’t allowed for any kind of material might I add!)

The way I see it is this. The Land Mine does the same damage as a Cannon shot to a golem, with a moderate sized AOE radius. Oftentimes golem rushes are spotted, but the reaction time is too long because you can get a critical mass of golems that literally liquify the gate. This is problematic even with waypointed keeps, because by the time the waypoint reopens the enemy has often already liquified the inner gate too.

With keeps without a waypoint at all, getting to the door with 10 golems is game over, even if you DO have people inside on Arrow Carts. Instead of shooting arrows futilely, the few defenders can instead use all that supply (if it is present) to Mine the path to the Inner gate. This would force the golem rush to send there golems in one at a time (losing them in the process) to clear the Mines before rushing foreword with the bulk of their golems. This delay would buy a critical 2 minutes or more, which is oftentimes the difference between saving a keep or losing it. And if the defenders can still not rally a defense with the extra time given, then obviously they deserve to lose the keep.

Or, if its simply a brainless zerg golem/karma farming, they will walk all those golems into the mine field and lose them all. which is good too imo, since anyone dumb enough to not check for Anti-GolemTraps before rushing headlong in (if such a feature is created) deserves to lose.