Guild Wars 2

How exactly do they work? I know capping the keepside quaggans send a group of quaggan to the keep. I know lightning strikes come from somewhere. But I don’t know what the middle thing does. Or what exactly creates the whether. I assume it’s somehow linked. But really I have no clue.

middle quaggans send guards to the supply camps.
the other nodes generate lightning storm and veteran quaggan with his gang “attacking” bay, hills or garrison.

They aren’t that useful outside the lightining strikes.
Veteran quaggan can be solod easily.

The lightning strikes detoriate your siege within the keep, etc so eventually they will be broken if you let the enemy hold them long enough.

But they are cute. It hurts me every time I have to kill them

@sazaw… Really? – I love to kill those fatty meatballs

The three outer quaggan nodes = sends the veteran quaggan to the entrance of bay, garrison, and hills to attack the gate.

The middle quaggan node = creates the weather lightning storm to kill siege everywhere.

DivineBeing.2086:

The three outer quaggan nodes = sends the veteran quaggan to the entrance of bay, garrison, and hills to attack the gate.

The middle quaggan node = creates the weather lightning storm to kill siege everywhere.

Nope. Keep quaggan nodes generate lightning that hits keeps and contests them. They also create the quaggan squads that attack or defend the keep. You can cancel this by attacking the power node located near the icons on the map. The central node is responsible for supply camp quaggans.

I have some extensive knowledge on how this work. I operate a lot underwater and solo their quite frequently. The three underwater camps in the north, east and west send 4-5 regular quaggans and an elite quaggan. The elite quaggan is responsible for creating a storm that will deteriorate any siege that the enemy encampment may have. Alternatively, if you own that keep it will send those same quaggans to help defend the doors.

The central island will send about 8 regular quaggans to the southern three encampments. They do not do a whole lot since they are only level 80 and do not have ranged, but it generally means that it makes it a little harder to take those camps back when left undefended. A good 5 man crew will not even notice them. (Heck even a three man crew will not notice them either).

I think everyone forgot to mention that quaggans throw up white swords on the enemy keeps they go up against, which can be valuable in that it makes it look like a ninja is going down. This also effects a waypointed keep by contesting it.

Proumbro.1376:

I think everyone forgot to mention that quaggans throw up white swords on the enemy keeps they go up against, which can be valuable in that it makes it look like a ninja is going down. This also effects a waypointed keep by contesting it.

Very true!

It takes 15 pearls to bribe a quaggan camp for your side. You can collect pearls in advance, say before reset, and use them at the beginning of next matchup. Why aren’t the pearls in your inventory reset, too?

When enemy has a quaggan camp (west, east or north) the quaggans around the camp are sometimes friendly, sometimes hostile. What is the logic behind that?

The temple does not have indicator telling which team has the quaggans guarding south and south-east supply camps. Is this a bug?

I remember that earlier when enemy controlled the temple, there were number of quaggans running in circle around it and you could attack them to remove enemy control. Is it intended it no longer functions that way?

Many pearls hidden inside terrain. Only way to find them is to hold down control key. Is this intended?

The cute Quaggans are just there to make you feel terribly guilty when sacking objectives.

Korgov.7645:

It takes 15 pearls to bribe a quaggan camp for your side. You can collect pearls in advance, say before reset, and use them at the beginning of next matchup. Why aren’t the pearls in your inventory reset, too?

Why would they you’ve collected them. Should your inventory go away? Furthermore you can also just kill krait in the area and do the same thing.

Korgov.7645:

When enemy has a quaggan camp (west, east or north) the quaggans around the camp are sometimes friendly, sometimes hostile. What is the logic behind that?

That I believe is a bug, but haven’t looked farther into it.

Korgov.7645:

The temple does not have indicator telling which team has the quaggans guarding south and south-east supply camps. Is this a bug?

I wouldn’t mind knowing this myself.

Korgov.7645:

I remember that earlier when enemy controlled the temple, there were number of quaggans running in circle around it and you could attack them to remove enemy control. Is it intended it no longer functions that way?

I can’t honestly recall it ever doing that.

Korgov.7645:

Many pearls hidden inside terrain. Only way to find them is to hold down control key. Is this intended?

They’re not hidden if you get close enough you can see them. The Ctrl feature can be used everywhere to see the names above things that are in the distance. I often do this on gathering nodes as well.

Wotah.2975:

Korgov.7645:

I remember that earlier when enemy controlled the temple, there were number of quaggans running in circle around it and you could attack them to remove enemy control. Is it intended it no longer functions that way?

I can’t honestly recall it ever doing that.

Or maybe it was that yo gain control you had to kill the quaggans running in circle. Perhaps way back in beta weekends. Killing krait to gain favor of quaggans does make more sense, though.

Currently there is no active way to remove enemy control. You just have to wait until it becomes gray again. Maybe thats the reason it doesn’t show color either.

salluks.6017:

They aren’t that useful outside the lightining strikes.
Veteran quaggan can be solod easily.

Not useful? That’s not quite true. Slightly advanced tactics here, but if you go for one of the keeps, kill the guards and get the doors down, it’s good timing to get the Quaagies to roll in behind you.

A Quaagie group can kill red door guards as they respawn.

The quaggans are an imporent part of wvwvw since they will destroy siges in keeps and kill traders. You ever wondered what happend to the guild banker or banker you just spoke to 20 min’s ago in Garrison lets say ?. Well chances are that the quaggans killed them with lightning. You ever been hit by “something” while in a keep ?. Well same thing.Do you recall when we had orbs ?. All of a sudden the alter got destroyed, well that was the quaggans.
Any seiges in lets say Garrison Lords room will get destroyed even if you refresh, only way to keep sieges there are to refresh and keep quaggans on your side. You will have to gain their loyalty by help build the Weather Machine(node) and then deffend it aganst attacks from Foe incl Kaiges. Kraigs will keep probe the camp and kill the villagers.
So, before we try to ninja a keep we will set up sieges first, then we will go bribe the quaggans with giant pearls so they will now attack said keep and cause white swords. We will be sitting on sieges waiting for swords to come up and first then do we start to break down wall/gate.
If I see a quaggan camp is hostile I will then kill the node and collect pearls while waiting for camp to go grey so I can gain their support.
The Temple of Storms will as said above send a group to southeren camps and either help defend or attack.
If some of you have encountered hostile quaggans in " your " camp it is most likely that quaggans are loyal to your foe and you took camp while they was in route or the quaggan camp got flipped and you missed it.
Either way, I raised 4 toons so far in wvwvw and that is something I find is good for a levling toon to do. Good xp, good loot, good way to get used to under water fighting and most important very good for the war efford over all. And you can/will scout for under water golem attacks lol.
More and more people are starting to understand the mecaniks of the quaggans and are now putting in an efford to keep them, that is awesome but we still need people to defend the camps just as if it was a supply camp.
This is my understanding of the quaggans. I hope I’m not to far of track and it will help you.
And pls guys , don’t pick at my spelling:). english is not my first languege.

Quaggan’s are pimps basically

sazaw.1347:

But they are cute. It hurts me every time I have to kill them

I initially have the same thoughts, but then I remember all the times in pve where they pulled more aggro than they needed to and died quickly and left me to fend for myself. After that I feel good about killing them.

Proumbro.1376:

I think everyone forgot to mention that quaggans throw up white swords on the enemy keeps they go up against, which can be valuable in that it makes it look like a ninja is going down. This also effects a waypointed keep by contesting it.

yep you flip the node, the enemy goes ‘oh its just the quags’ then you do a silent siege and are at inner before they even realise something is wrong.

For a while there, allied quaggans would take out siege in the corresponding keep. This seems to have improved in recent weeks, but it was a terrible bug that made siege a money sink. They still, on occasion do take out siege. Allied or not. I think it’s being investigated now.

Be funny if you could use that item to dress up like them and run to the keep. When someone attacks you, your group uncovers and ganks them.