Guild Wars 2

Sir.2614:

I should have been more precise in my first post. I’m referring to treb placement on the upper tier of Stonemist, as they can not be counter-trebed. You can easily treb Wildcreek, Klovan and Durios from these protected locations., but the other three towers require treb placement that can easily be counter-sieged.
In reply to your response, there are two locations within the Valley keep that can reach Bravost and Langor with a single treb, hence covering your outer towers. They’ve both been utilitized to great extent since the BWEs. I’m certain many players know where they are.
I am by no means saying anything “negative” about the green portion of EB. These maps are fairly well-balanced and the sections that do not seem balanced simply require some ingenuity to overcome. This keeps the matches interesting and separates the servers who follow cookie-cutter strats from those that who constantly adapt and develop their own.

First of all, you’re wrong about the treb placement. There’s safe treb spots in Stonemist to hit all of the outer towers (And when I say outer towers, I’m referring to the ones nearest Stonemist. Outer as in furthest away from your keep, not furthest away from Stonemist. AKA not Langor and Bravost) I’m not going to tell you what these treb spots are.

Secondly, why are you totally flip-flopping on your stance concerning EB balance? What you said in your first post really indicated that you felt Lowlands was a bad position. Now you’re apparently saying there’s nothing negative about Lowlands at all when that really isn’t the case. Lowlands has poor supply coverage. There’s no reason to deny it; anyone with a brain can see it. TA PR guy looking over your shoulder or something?

It’s all left to interpretation. Good game and/or good luck, my friend!

Sir.2614:

I’m not sure that it’s meant to be a status symbol, but if a server does not move from it’s position, it is locked to that color. It seems as though the only way HoD can shift to a different color with the current system is to lose.
It is also apparent that green is the most difficult area on EB to defend. It’s the lowest ground, both towers can be trebed from SM and the Lowland’s Keep is the most vulnerable to attack from multiple sides.
A wise frog once said “It’s not easy being green,” but we’ve been proving him wrong since day 1.

Every outer tower in EB can be trebbed from Stonemist. And Valley is a much worse keep than Lowlands; it’s so tiny that you can’t even build trebs on it to cover your outer towers. If you wanted to say something negative about the green portion of the map in EB you picked two incorrect things. A better weakness would’ve been to say that Lowlands offers very little protection of the supply lines and it’s the easiest third of the map to harass caravans and take supply camps.

I should have been more precise in my first post. I’m referring to treb placement on the upper tier of Stonemist, as they can not be counter-trebed. You can easily treb Wildcreek, Klovan and Durios from these protected locations., but the other three towers require treb placement that can easily be counter-sieged.
In reply to your response, there are two locations within the Valley keep that can reach Bravost and Langor with a single treb, hence covering your outer towers. They’ve both been utilitized to great extent since the BWEs. I’m certain many players know where they are.
I am by no means saying anything “negative” about the green portion of EB. These maps are fairly well-balanced and the sections that do not seem balanced simply require some ingenuity to overcome. This keeps the matches interesting and separates the servers who follow cookie-cutter strats from those that who constantly adapt and develop their own.

I’m not sure that it’s meant to be a status symbol, but if a server does not move from it’s position, it is locked to that color. It seems as though the only way HoD can shift to a different color with the current system is to lose.
It is also apparent that green is the most difficult area on EB to defend. It’s the lowest ground, both towers can be trebed from SM and the Lowland’s Keep is the most vulnerable to attack from multiple sides.
A wise frog once said “It’s not easy being green,” but we’ve been proving him wrong since day 1.

GG to both SBI and JQ. It has been a fun week with many memorable battles.