postern door bypass

[footpatrol2]

So any chance we can take away postern door entry to a rank 0 keep when the door goes down?

It was fun in the beginning because it was a big change and now it just feels like a zerg fest. The choke points make the fights feel epic and make it feel like a actual keep take. Now it feels super zergy. Also certain classes excel at chokepoint holding and this kinda steals there thunder.

Any chance of players hitting the door again also? This allow's for the offensive to have a focus point. Right now there really isn't any focus point and only requires tanks on a ram to break down the door. This allows a defensive force to play postern games and steal away focus from the door hence slowing down the advance of the keep door going down. It makes the defensive force feel like your making a impact.

[Daknallbomb]

wtf plz NO ...... than we have 5 hour funnel fights again -.-

[NoRKaLKiLLa]

Door funnels are so absurdly in favor of incredibly defensive and passive gameplay that you have people whose only contribution to the rvr campaign is tapping an AOE heal or damage ability on one spot. It's not dynamic nor interactive to partake in the defense and it's fruitless and frustrating to play against. So you go to the trouble of prepping a zone, capping all the BOs, running the resources and escorting the ram only to run into the people playing the other side who haven't the intelligence or coordination to anything except gather in one spot and body block. No. Not only no but **** no, get out of here with that ****. The only problem with the current system is that there's zero incentive to attack a keep that's not either at rank 0 or is minutes away from reaching rank zero. If capturing a keep with a star gave a multiple odd rewards in accordance with the number of stars at has, ie. 1 star keep gives 4 purple bags and 1.25x renown, a 2 star keep gives 6 purple bags and 1.5x etc etc etc then you might see people willing to hit a stone wall in coordinated gameplay at the off chance of actually breaking a funnel. In the mean time the meta is wait for your lazy, incapable or simply and more often the case, undermanned faction to bleed rank until your back door is plowable and you get bent over and smashed. You've also the option of funneling the second floor and hiding under the skirt of your keep Lord of you want an "epic" standstill that is heavily in favor of the passive and defensive faction.

[Pumatouch]

You've also the option of funneling the second floor and hiding under the skirt of your keep Lord of you want an "epic" standstill that is heavily in favor of the passive and defensive faction.

Okay I'll bite The socalled Skirt is a direct tactical response to what I've dubbed "Dancefloor Below" coupled with Lord going through walls. You know what it means.
Truth.

[NoRKaLKiLLa]

Don't get me wrong, I understand that it's a valid and effective last ditch effort to defend a keep, but it's not fun, to me, to mindlessly rely on sheer numbers, a choke point and a NPC to win any kind of engagement.

[Daknallbomb]

oh ure so right norkal i remind 4 hours funnel farm at some fights ist just well no fun ;D

[Shamrockinc]

You've also the option of funneling the second floor and hiding under the skirt of your keep Lord of you want an "epic" standstill that is heavily in favor of the passive and defensive faction.

Okay I'll bite The socalled Skirt is a direct tactical response to what I've dubbed "Dancefloor Below" coupled with Lord going through walls. You know what it means.
Truth.

It's simple really, but alot of work for the devs. Just need to make the walls, SOLID again... Don't know how many times, i've been defending or attacking a keep, only to watch the damn Lord, rubberband through the walls. Let alone how many mobs actually continue shooting you through those same damn walls...
Just my 2 Pennies...

[Daknallbomb]

there is the pathing thingy again ;D

[Haojin]

We tried it before, on live and here, it's a total mess.

No.

[Natherul]

Will probably not close the postern until something major changes.

Locking thread.