(edited by King Amadaeus.8619)
I do like the idea of traps, however I do believe they should have been added similar to blueprint. (similar cost, similar sell areas.) In fact traps where on my list of suggestions for wvw, although mine took a more devious route.
The traps I had ideal-ed, where more costly in supply, more powerful, and multi-use.
Essentially you build them like blueprints add supply then they cloak and wait for a trigger. once triggered it takes 15 seconds of no damage(to or from) to re-cloak.
I had three in mind..
RazorWire Trap: 40 supply. bleeding and crippling.
Pitch Trap: 40 supply. burning.
Black Powder Minefield : 50 supply. damage and launching.
A black powder minefield in front of a gate would make short work of anyone wanting to hit it, as they would have to destroy the trap before they could hit the gate.
Thinking further into it. If traps could be bought with gold, we may see more on the battlefield, although it does boil down to the fact its 15 badges to kill someone once. In most cases it would never be wanted or used.
Id rather have a sticky trap that prevents people from moving or escaping using stun breakers. You hit the sticky trap, you get stuck for 5 seconds, no way out.
It does just go down to the fact the door needs a longer time to contest. 2,000 damage is a good number for this.
On the thought of locking a way point, it does seem like a good tactic for outnumbered servers to balance the game. If there can be some way to actively combat the problem I think It can be added to WvW as a good mechanic.
Perhaps having waypoints not lock when contested. rather you have to setup a Waypoint Jammer, somewhere near the base (where you get the status event). This way players can hunt down the jammer and destroy it to remove the waypoint. Although, it would add another objective for players when sieging keeps.
Any of these ideas would require a lot more thought before implementation. Perhaps some anet dev will read this and get a better idea than these
(edited by Esprit Dumort.3109)
Can we please have the door’s on the keeps/SM take more than an enemy looking at them funny to contest?
Today, I encountered an enemy theif who build their entire build to do one thing. Hit the gates to contest them.
He would run between stonemyst and our keep contesting them keeping our waypoints from being used.
The problem? No one could stop him. We had upwards to 15 players hunting him down and he would teleport/stealth/stunbreak/swiftness away. That’s just ridiculous. I know you want theifs mobile but when 15 players cannot kill him?
Stealth traps? Apparently no one wanted to use them. The idea was floated in the chat but no one bothered to buy any.
I don’t think it takes a genius to see if one player could permanently lock 2 way-points Its overpowered.
EDIT:
In case you don’t want to read;
-Keep’s and Stonemist are contested too easy.
-An minimum damage requirement is needed.
-Traps are too expensive to use on one person who can re-spawn quickly.Please keep the discussion to those points
You see how he quoted that “Keeps and Stonemist are contested tooo easy” and ’Traps are to expensive on someone who can RESPAWN QUICKLY"? He is not exactly asking you to tell him off because they are to lazy to place a trap, READ HIS LAST POINTS!!!! They are expensive and the thief can just respawn and do it all over again, The problem is that things are contested to easily, and I totally agree with the damage minimum. What I dont like about the 30 second thing now is that they could mow a door down with 5 golems and they are already at inner before someone can say “whats going on at Bay?”
(edited by Iavra.8510)