Guild Wars 2

I notice that people dont do the base events in WvW. why is this?
wasnt this a new feature added to WvW? But I have never seen people stand in based together to trigger it.

The breakout events are sometimes used as a diversion while more devious skullduggery and general mayhem are propogated.

Well mostly guilds use them to get a little extra help because it requires 10 people in one spot waiting for the event and people don’t like to wait

Predator.7321:

Well mostly guilds use them to get a little extra help because it requires 10 people in one spot waiting for the event and people don’t like to wait

but is the reward for doing it weak or something?

You actually get a pretty hefty reward. Free siege, free supply, a free Champion NPC…

They practically hand you a free tower with full supply, unless a large chunk of your enemy’s entire server is specifically out to stop you.

in tier 8 theyre quite common

we often run into coverage issues and the related towers change hands fairly often, so theyre pretty useful (and very frustrating for the opponents defending)

i myself want to know the Champion NPC loot table like mentioned by Freelancer in the Tales of Tyria podcast…

if the champion does drop loot it is not worth it as killing him will only enable the opossing team to unleash another breakout event.

oh… what if he does have Dawn/Dusk in his loot table ?

azizul.8469:

oh… what if he does have Dawn/Dusk in his loot table ?

we still get nothing, whites, junk and blues out of all champ mobs i dont really have hopes for this particular champ lol. but if anyone wants to kill him do it at the right time at least not while the enemy is trying to use him as a distraction to make your whole server focus on the breakout event and they go cap your whole map.

if a map is all one color it may be appropriate to just do a breakout and grab one tower.

it may also be more appropriate to start by grabbing the NE/NW tower or going fast and silent into the garrison… all depending on your long term plans for the map.

my point being there are numerous strategies available and going for the easiest tower to get first isn’t always the best strategy… but sometimes it might be.

I sort of see them as cheating. Not that I don’t do them but they just feel cheap to me.

But it does seem like the times we really need him we can’t find 10 people on the map anyway. Go go tier 7 in the morning!

In my experience nobody has patience for them.

They typically wait 30 seconds to try get enough people then go off and do something else.

Once you get your 10 people and the event triggers you suddenly have 30 people standing next to you -.-