Guild Wars 2

Just a thought I felt was interesting, so thought I’d see how others felt: Climbing ropes.

This pseudo siege can be purchased and set up at specific and designated spots along the outside of walls. When used, a single player begins climbing up the rope at a slowish pace[not vaulting up], and only one player can use it at a time. NPCs on walls will automatically react to ropes in their vicinity, breaking them and throwing whoever’s on it back down the wall. Players can also break the ropes with ease, as it won’t even have health, but instead simply a “Press ‘F’ to undo rope” option. Ropes use a low amount of supply, but this will make it hard to try to use zerg tactics with ropes to try to scale a blob up a wall. This is more to create a certain “covert” playstyle. Ropes will also have a limited number of uses[2-3] before it breaks of tension. Maybe there can be a upgrade turning it into a ladder with more uses⁵ and a longer time to break it by defenders. The balance here is that while individuals can gain covert access into objectives, this access can easily be locked down, the invader is vulnerable, and it can easily drain supply so that while it is possible for attackers to attempt a zerg-tactic of overwhelming a tower/fort with ropes after ropes, it would be a slow process and easily countered and impossible to keep up forever. Also, for balance, ropes would only work on the out-most walls, meaning the inner walls of a keep won’t be scalable.

Thoughts?

Mesmer says YES to take rope and portal zerg in.

We had already suggestion of it, not gonna happen according to answer from old posts cos it will imbalance and put walls as useless stuff, also lot of backdooring will happen

I think in a world where coverage and population is balanced, we could use climbing ropes.

MAYBE in t1 this would be possible, but certainly not in any other tier where a side has a clear coverage advantage or disadvantage

I’d rather a form of siege that blocks enemy ground targeting making a safe zone for defenders to attempt to repel attackers.