Should it be so easy for small groups to put down sieges?
Well… yes.
Because that’s how you get a border going. Its when you start to put limitations on this, like 4 people required to built guild siege against the no doubt fortified keep that’s been ticking all night, that WvW grind to a complete halt. The very strong buff to champion NPCs, removal of siegerazer and door/wall hp is another similar issue (ironically, the shrines are dead simple to cap, I have no idea why they arent all veterans at least), it acts a buffer against small groups doing things.
Do you have a 5 man squad ready and waiting for you when you join WvW? No? Then gtfo. That’s pretty much what the new WvW tell you. That’s absolutely horrible. I have always bragged about how GW2 WvW scale well from 1-25+ players, especially compared to for example ESO where you needed a full 20 man raid waiting for you just to cap the eqvivalent of a lousy camp. You could easily join a border and get the ball rolling. All things considered, they pretty much ruined that.
4 ppl should not be able to take full upgraded keeps maybe a tower but it should be a hard thing to do. If it was easy then what would be the point of these things upgrading? That the def of night caping and is a major reason why ppt means nothing.
ESO is supply free rvr every one is seiges that was a major error to do that.Jski, but that is what people want, they want a easy reward ,that is what GW2 made people get used to, if anet made each player deploy instant built siege, gw2 players for sure would love that…. Before the new patch to WvW, the old BL were nothing more like karma train maps and this is what people want back.
As much as the auto upgrades and other stuff on the BL and EB needs work/fixes or even removed this patch made to see how many Skrits were playing WvW after al.
Except those “keeps” in your own border that are enemy fortified and upgraded insanely fast. So if a small group struggles to take them back or just find it takes way too much time they just sit there all night ticking hard ppt. It’s not like the enemy spent much time “upgrading them.” Earth keep reinforces almost instantly when you have the camps. Morning ppl get on see it and don’t even want to bother either so they log off as well. If you see this as healthy… then have fun playing by yourself sooner than later. Taking back your own BL shouldn’t be as hard as taking an enemy BL and it almost is especially with a couple defenders vs a small group. Auto-upgrades need a lot of work.

. It was a struggle to cap a few things while the very large DL group was capping so fast just to try and keep a decent tick. But you’re correct we all KNOW coverage is what wins. Everything will be upgraded meaning RoS will have to climb out of a hole (more than likely will never happen).
thanks though was fun especially the fight between overlook and mendons.