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1. Carry your own siege. This discourages your zerg from placing more blueprints than you have supply for and shows that you really are in charge. Commanding is expensive, don’t expect to make money doing it, but a successful commander can also draw in siege donations to offset the cost.
2. Superior everything, and I mean everything. Guild catapults if you can afford them. If you don’t want to throw down omegas all the time that’s fine, but sometime it can make a difference if you’re in a fix. Normal prints are fine too as a budget option for less hectic scenarios.
3. Be ready to acknowledge your mistakes, but don’t apologize too much. Your zerg expects you to be in charge. It’s up to your community to make a welcoming environment for new commanders, and if they don’t, try to get that conversation started.
4. The most important reason to claim is for +5 supply, combat bonuses are nice too. Keep in mind that if the capture isn’t “credited” to your guild, you won’t have the option to claim for a few minutes.
5. It depends on the keep. There is always a way in, there is always a way to counter defensive siege, but it comes down to knowledge, experience, and preparation. Know how keeps are typically defended, know when to persist and when to give up. Sometimes just by prolonging a siege you can drain supply, but that defensive advantage makes it very hard if your forces are otherwise matched.
6. Sometimes it is, I think it depends where you play and what kind of opposition you have. In this case make sure you are always communicating, then you can help each other out either directly or indirectly.
7. As long as you don’t get emotional or upset you won’t drive people away. Do what you can with the group that you have, and more will start to follow. Most people understand that more can be accomplished in a group than can be accomplished alone. If you’re clear about the fact that you’re looking for more experience and will listen, there should be people among your zerg who are willing to help you out with the learning process.
Thank you for writing all that out! I’m seeing a trend of things I need to work on thanks again
1. Ask for siege donations. I would guess that golems, rams, and catas will be needed most of the time.
2. Every kind. But rams, catas, and acs are priority.
3. Ignore disrespectful people. Tag down if it’s your whole server raging. Explain what you’re doing before doing it and they will have no excuse if they didn’t follow instructions.
4. Guilds have buffs you can train in Art of War that can add a variety of useful buffs. A common one is +5 supply to camps.
5. Remove as much enemy siege as you can. Starve them of supply to repair.
6. If most of you are in voice comms it is, otherwise people will become easily confused.
7. Same as #3.Lastly, I would suggest that you don’t constantly throw undergeared, upleveled, teammates at higher numbered opposition repeatedly. If you notice the same people dying all the time inquire about their gear/ spec. Have your guild mates lead by example.
Awesome thanks for writing all that out an for the advice I will definitely get to work now!
Let me see if I can give a light to your issues…
1 – Yeah, that’s bad… Almost everyone expect that the commander drop the siege for them, because of the usual “Don’t drop siege for the commander” police… Of course, if you take too long to make your move, someone might drop a siege at random and complain you’re doing nothing. So fill your bags with the blueprints, and try to plan where you gonna drop them beforehand.
2 – Always carry all kind of siege… Golems can be left aside tho, they are more for specific ocasions, not for general ones… But always have Arrow Carts, Ballistas, Trebuchets, Catapults and Flame Rams. Principally the last ones. Some superiors also come handy.
3 – Being a commander require having a really thick skin, because one can’t simply calm a angry zergling… If you make your intentions clear, and saying why you are doing that, you’re likely to keep the zerglings quiet. Of course people will likely get upset if you get them wiped over and over and there is no god that gonna help you with that.
4 – When a guild claim a objective, all the active WvW buffs will affect players within the zone of the objective… The most popular one is the +5 supply carry buff, which people give to camps, but there are many others that you can check on your guild upgrade list unter the Art of War tab.
5 – Some keeps are easier to attack than others. A sieged keep can be even more dangerous than a upgraded non-sieged keep… You might want to scout around your objective (to check for any siege you can spot) before going for it, and find a way to go around the defenses (if possible). A unprepared attack toward a T3 keep is likely to fail if there are defenders around.
6 – Coordinated efforts are always a great play… Rolling a 100man zergball is counter-productive if you enemy is playing Divide-and-Conquer (thus, being able to cover more ground than you).
7 – Unless you can get someone already known in your server to tell people to give you a chance, the only way to prove your worth to the others is going out there and make stuff happening… Try don’t argue with the trolls that will say you’re bad, because they problably don’t even have balls to take up the commanding role and will give excuses like “gimme 100g and I’ll do it” just to be able to get away without getting on the responsability.
Wow thanks for writing all this out it was a huge help and I will defineatly get to work on all this stuff thank you
Place your own siege or have people that have explicit instructions to place siege for the run. Inform the rest not to place siege. Having random siege placed will drain your zerg of supply.
Ask the group to donate siege to you by mail if they want to contribute.
Thank you sir / ma’m for the input that’s great advice
Hi guys I’m a new WvW Commander ( just bought it today ) and I’ve been in WvW for months beforehand so I know how this all works. And actually running a Zerg is tougher than I thought.
I plan on running my Guild ( CoSA ) in the upcoming Spring Tournament which is I think 4 days away? Point is I need to make sure I have some stuff 100% down before I start so give me a hand will you?
1. Is it alright to ask my Zerg if anyone else can drop Siege? Ex. Flame Rams because I run out here and there and I don’t know if that’s ok to ask. ( Zerg = Guild + Random people )
2. What’s the best Siege to carry? I run with Arrow Carts, Catapults, Flame Rams, and Trebuchets. That’s the essentials right?
3. How do you calm angry Zerglings? I be respectful and apologize for a mistake but if you mess up once some people just explode on you and it’s really moral dropping to be a Commander. know I’m new at Commanding but I try my hardest 100% 24/7 but one mistake will bring upon SF’s wrath on me :/ my mistakes are never intentional and are never ment to wreck someone else I’m just learning you know?
4. What does Claiming things do? I hear a lot of different things so I thought I’d just ask.
5. I don’t know about you but attacking keeps is one hard job to do! I mean no one defending it isn’t to bad but Jesus once a Zerg comes and defends it you are out of the game! Any advice?
6. So I have had small exposure to “Dual Commanding” where one Commander is on one side and the other ( me ) is in the opposite side is this a smart strategy of pushing for map domination?
7. Rally problems: So I pop my Tag and no other Commander is on and people come to me but I’ve had a problem once or twice where a person who cussed me out for my mistakes would alert the Zerg that I’m a bad Commander and new. People like me but it takes one person to say something and half my Zerg leaves me :| I know I’m in a high Rep WvW Guild but people just need to let me show them what I can do! Any advice?
Thanks guys for reading all this! I just needed some feedback on new Commanding! Zerging and being the Leader are very different roles! I’m sure ill get the hang of it but I have these present problems!
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I have every single thing to make Sunrise except Dawn! I had 5 Dawn’s that I bought for only 2g each which I than Salvaged (Before I even decided to make Sunrise) now Dawn costs 622g! I don’t think I can Grind anymore . . . Anyone have some suggestion or anything they can do for me? I want my Sunrise so bad