Guild Wars 2

Disclaimer: As stated by the title Resdan.2359 is a noob. If given conflicting advice by someone who is not, follow that instead.
Coming into Guild Wars 2 one of the features that excited me most was WvWvW and I am sure I was not the only one. Upon entering WvWvW he player has to choose from four rather large maps, decide between no small number of objectives, and deal with often conflicting orders from chat. As such I have taken it upon myself to give a few tips to low-leveled or new players. First, stick to the Zerg. A Zerg can generally be defined as a large group of players often led by commanders. Commanders can be recognized by the blue emblem over the avatar’s head or on the map. As a low-leveled or new player you probably will not be able to accomplish much on your own. Sticking to these large groups of players allows you to become accustomed to the challenges of WvWvW in a relatively safer environment. Second, avoid placing siege or ask for a more experienced player’s help. Siege are game changing but without proper placement can be reduced to near meaningless wastes of money. I hope you found this beneficial and if you have any suggestions of your own, be sure to post.

- always carry supply
- don’t take supply from keeps/tower if somebody try to upgrade it
- always carry some basic siege weapons
- ask players around you do they have supply before you deploy siege weapon
- don’t deploy golem straight in to enemy arrow cart fire and write “BUILD THIS GOLEM”
- destroy cannons, oil and siege weapons first (well depends situation)
- don’t claim if your guild don’t have any buffs
- run supply if needed (boring i know)
- don’t stole other people golems

There’s a useful thread already but it doesn’t have everything. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/The-Basics-of-WvW-guide-and-more

Avoid taking supply from towers and keeps. If the tower is under attack, there is no upgrade (or the upgrade is unlikely to finish) and you are using the supply to help defend that is an exception. Also if the commander or whoever is in charge says not to repair a wall don’t use the towers supply to repair it.

(Some commanders say not to ’waste’ supply on a wall being trebbed, I say letting the enemy break the wall and get in just because they built a treb, is just as bad as using the supply to fix the wall while it’s under attack. All you can do is try to use common sense. Using supply from a supply camp instead of the tower or keep to fix the wall tends to be a decent compromise)

Upgrades:
If you have some money to spare, and you come across a tower that has full supply but no upgrades going it’s a contribution to your server to buy an upgrade. Preferred upgrade order that I always hear for towers is Walls > Doors > Oil > Cannons > Walls > Mortar.

Supply camps can also be upgraded, but their upgrades are less useful. First is usually increased supply, allowing the more durable towers to get more supply from the dolyaks. Afterwards the only option is caravan guards, and then you can order higher level and more guards after.

Supply camps with a lv 80 guards can actually be taken by a lone player that knows what they are doing and play their class well. Lv82 guards makes that much harder. I’ve solo’d many supply camps on my ranger, but I’ve never managed to successfully solo a camp with lv 82 guards. Higher level guards also makes it easier to defend a camp against small groups.

Quaggans
Borderlands have underwater quaggan camps. When a quaggan camp is taken, the quaggans will send some troops to help your side. Either guarding a camp or door, or sending waves against nearby camps. To capture a neutral camp (they have a grey icon on the map) You have to either kill nearby krait or give them pearls that are scattered about the lake. That is like a heart meter, except it shows 3 meters, one for each team. When a team fills the bar, the camp is ’flipped’ to their side. To take a quaggan camp held by an enemy team you destroy the large pearl in the center of the camp. That disables the camp, and a few minutes later the camp will be neutral again.

The temple of storms is in the middle of the lake on an island. When this can be taken there will be a neutral camp icon on it. Capturing this is a simple king of the hill, stand in the zone with no enemies around until it is captured. When this is captured, your enemies in the direction of any quaggan camps your team holds will be struck by lightning at random, including enemy siege engines. This can do significant amounts of damage over time, and can help crack a heavily defended keep.

Diplomacy.
Don’t piss off other servers. I have seen stronger servers whom others hate with such a vengeance that they receive focus fire, allowing weaker servers to win.

• Don’t camp spawns. i.e. wait with the zerg in front of the spawn point with sieges etc. If another server camps your spawn point, always remember that there are many more exits. Camping also doesn’t achieve anything when you could be capping other points in other BL. Camping jumping puzzle is debatable.
• Don’t do anything with corpses. e.g. sitting on them, jumping on them. A salute for a well-fought fight would be appropriate. You already won and got the badge, no need to desecrate their corpse further.
• Don’t alt-f4 in downed state. You lost, take it like a man. Alt-F4 also takes much longer for you to return to the battlefield.
• Don’t post inflammatory posts on the forum. e.g. ‘We are all so elite, your server can only win with zergs.’