Guild Wars 2

This game is so disappointing in WVW it feels broken. The rendering issues and night capping are horrible yet something bugs me even more.

This game is based on strategy and siege weapons. There is a wide choice of siege weapons with roles, ranges and counters and it feels great. Arrow cart against people attack, batistas in choke trebuchets when they got catapults defending.

Overall it’s fun to have a siege warfare it creates huge battlefields and it looks epic. The best thing so far is how siege is balanced. You can try to put 2 rams on a door and take it fast, but if they invested in Oil and a catapult behind the gate you will need to invest in a catapult too. Then if they get a trebuchet or a mortar to destroy your catapult you will need your own trebuchetss etc or maybe even a golem on the door so that he can hit inside the blank spot of trebuchets and mortars.

Sometimes you will need to defend these trebuchets from enemy attacks by investing even more in arrow carts and well placed balistas and they will need more siege weapons too.

But then all of a sudden a Mesmer, one single Mesmer with one single skill can teleport and entire army in your siege weapons and focus them. It doesn’t even matter how hard you try to kill them, they are doing a suicidal attack and that is so worth it. They are investing 0, absolutely no supply, no badges, no money except for repairs I guess and they can destroy an army of siege weapons worth a ton of supply, badges and money.

I have a question for Arena Net is this seriously how they think this game should be played ? Because right now it seems like that only way to take something is just ram the doors fast enough so the enemy can’t mass to defend then portal or use trebuchets from a tower… I’m so sad this game had so much potential for strategy and awesome playstyle, but it’s far from it…

It IS a strategy, it’s just you doesn’t have the enough experience. Learn to wipe clean your base & double check before you defend it. You don’t come complain because your base got wiped by a mesmer portal caused by your own mistakes.

Icytears.2647:

It IS a strategy, it’s just you doesn’t have the enough experience. Learn to wipe clean your base & double check before you defend it. You don’t come complain because your base got wiped by a mesmer portal caused by your own mistakes.

Casue obviously you can see invisible Mesmers and constantly AoE an entire position of siege weapons to be safe right ?

How long can a Mesmer to go invisible? 5mins? 10mins? I think max would be just around 20sec. Thank god Anet disabled ele’s/asura skills to teleport unless it’s being a straight line and without holes in between. Then you people might start complaining about people teleporting into base going through the seiges.

Aww, did the big nasty enemy kill your siege weaponry? This is how portals are supposed to be used. Quick surprise attacks to take out key elements of the enemy assault or to generally wreak havoc. Using portals effectively is one of the most important skills to have in an organised group, along with proper use of guardians/elementalists for healing/support.

Portals add another layer of strategy to the game, and is much better for it. There are some issues with portals, though those are engine issues (rendering) and not with the skill itself.

It does seem a little unfair that the Mesmer has this amazing, tactical utility spell no other class can remotely compete with.

It seems odd for Mesmers to be such game-changers where everyone else has a very comparabale tool-set.

Trebuchets set high up in the castle can destroy towers and are out of reach. It’s a nonsense

Sebyos.4089:

Icytears.2647:

It IS a strategy, it’s just you doesn’t have the enough experience. Learn to wipe clean your base & double check before you defend it. You don’t come complain because your base got wiped by a mesmer portal caused by your own mistakes.

Casue obviously you can see invisible Mesmers and constantly AoE an entire position of siege weapons to be safe right ?

Don’t listen to anyone who tells you to “learn” how to do something. These people are often vapid and full of themselves and do not actually have a god kitten clue of what they’re talking about.

The mesmer portal is used for all kinds of cheap snake tactics like this but I don’t think it’s an exploit and I don’t think it’s something ArenaNet can or is willing to fix.

Just curious.. are you from Meguuma, Sebyos?