Guild Wars 2

Anyone else feels like siege weapons are too weak? A Ballista for example needs several shots just to kill 1 person, the projectiles are easy to evade and the ballista is also easily destroyed. In real life one shot of a ballista could instantly kill several armored people at once.
Today I placed a ballista at a spot which looked good, a warrior came along and before he died he reached my ballista and destroyed it before I could kill him (I am lvl 80 guardian in full exotic damage dealing gear).

I feel like its fine, theproblem seems to stem from you trying to solo someone with a siege engine. Usually I’m teamed up with at least another person on a cart or balista. If you had siege one shotting people, you wouldn’t get out of your spawn against more sizable opponents (HoD/JQ/SBI/ET).

Not one shotting maybe, but needing 5+ shots for a single warrior is redicilous and thats when he doesnt even use any healing or protection skills. If he uses them he wont die at all before reaching it.

Is the Ballista meant for attacking other players? At Anza we had the enemy team set up a Ballista on the hill overlooking it and managed to 1 shot all our siege weapons in the tower. It was incredibly effective, certainly a tactic I plan on using at key locations.

As for the other siege weapons, Arrow carts are invaluable, Catapults can single handedly save a location and Mortars/Trebuchets are great for long range damage. I don’t find any of them weak.

in real life ballistas were mainly anti personal weapons, and it makes more sense to destroy structures with catapults and trebuchets?
Ballistas do about 5000-8000 damage per hit currently. Not enough to make any warrior care.

This isn’t real life. In real life a ballista would down anyone in a single shot. These are anti-siege weapons, and giving them the ability to kill people in 2 shots pretty much makes them overpowered. They are meant as support. You have multiple ballista, how about you get together and mark targets, work together. If you are alone, then you shouldn’t be able to hold off the keep solo. You should be able to slow progress, but not rule the keep. I think they work fine. We’ve used them successfully in every siege or defense, I don’t see your problem other than feeling like you can’t one or two shot people as being weak.

Well I wont waste any money on them anymore. If they dont make sense and only good in big noumbers theres no reason for me to invest in them.

Siege weapons are incredibly powerful when they can fire from a protected position at a massed enemy. But they are incredibly vulnerable if they are in an unprotected position. Which is pretty realistic…after all they are artillery.

I was able to defeat an entire zerg with one ballista placed strategically on top of a tower. But I can easily kill someone on a ballista if he is standing in an open field with no protection.

Pretty sure that is how it should work.

No one shooting siege weapons please.