Guild Wars 2

One solution is to make the defensive sieges of keeps/tower/etc the same way as the cannons/balistas/etc. Make permanent build sites for arrow carts and balistas. Put it in good spots (if the devs play wvw, they know the usual spots) and make it that it gets better with the tier of the keep/tower.

Tier 1 -> regular acs and balistas, in a few spots;
Tier 2 -> sup acs and balistas, in more spots;
Tier 3 -> more sup acs and balistas spots and a defensive sup treb spot;

That way, you don’t need to worry about decay nor siege trolls.

If destroyed, you can pay the workers to fix the sieges.

I’d be happier with just longer decay times the farther down the wvw list your server is (or maybe by tiers?). T1 should have the number of players needed to easily refresh siege every hour, whereas lower servers (~>20) servers do not have the numbers to keep stuff refreshed for that long. The only exception should be flame rams, they should keep the short decay time (same time length across all servers).

Personally I do like
Normal siege last a hour
Superior and Guild last 2 hours

It isn’t that bad.

I’ll second permanent defensive siege build sites as the best solution to this. This could even be a separate, new upgrade if they wish (or just rolled into one of the cannon/mortar upgrades). Have spots around keeps/towers which contain permanent sites for ACs and ballistas, perhaps highlighted a specific color to indicate they are permanent, and still allow players to place more siege if they wish that would be subject to the timer.

I would like to know what Devon Carver thinks about siege decay and maybe what he and his fellow Devs have talked about when it comes to the siege placement in general.

Will we see a longer decay timer for Sup and guild siege?
What about peoples idea of have siege spots on towers similar to mortars?
Will we see new siege weapons soon?

THE Dentist.5960:

Getting rid of siege decay timers on all siege except rams would make wvw a lot more enjoyable for those that spend their time focused on defending. In all honestyit would make it more enjoyable for everyone imo….. ANET please get rid of it.

Thoughts?

Since there is no way to “map” the siege, passing the siege to another timezone is almost impossible – actually it is impossible since there are gaps between times and no players on the maps many times.

If we were allowed some way to map the siege but also increase the time that they “decay” as well as even giving us (has been suggested before) a way to trait into siege so it lasts, eventually, forever and not the dolyak kind of “achievement” please.

WvW can be better in many ways.