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old.Thanatlos
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Keep claims
If you bother to claim a keep, especially in our own realm please upgrade the doors!!!
Have had 2 keep defences (1 crau, 1 bolg) where doors were lvl 1!!
If you claim a keep, you get a bonus, some respect from the guild. Imo there are some responsibilities to realm defence associated with owning a keep:
- Notifying the realm when enemies are near
- Try and defend it yourself
- Keep the keep defendable (not lvl 1 keep because it costs so much bountypoints)
Door repair
If you repair doors for a keep, recommended wood to use is ironwood or heartwood.
If you want to upgrade a door to lvl 5, start by repairing the door fully at lvl 1, then upgrade to 2, repair to full health again and so further. Repairing at 1 lvl higher costs like twice as much as repairing 2 or 3 times at the previous level.
If you want to have doors at a suitable level to be repaired so you can keep the enemy at the 2nd gate the gate should be lvl 3 or 4, that way someone that brings around 200 ironwood can keep a door up for quite a bit of time, especially if more people who can repair bring wood. High level doors cost amazing amounts or costs of wood and no-one carries that.
If you want the keep to be defendable upgrade the outer door to lvl 4+. Any higher than 6 usually brings complaints and huge costs if you stop the enemy when they did some damage to it but didn't break it.
Wall defence
If you're on the walls you're a target. if you can't kill an enemy in 2 shots you shouldn't be there. A hero with a bow might get a kill or two but in exchange for that 5-10 people around you were targets affected by an aoe targeted on you, disease, str/con debuff, dot, dd.
So if you're going to be on the walls make sure you've got a better reason there than firing a shortbow. I know it's boring but it beats having like 2 fgs of res sick people on the wall with healers being oom all the time in the courtyard.
Courtyard
Try interrupting enemy mages with gtaoe and pbaoe, maybe even pbaoe dd if you're quick enough and try and stay a bit out of sight. That way pbaoe mages can clean up people at second gate or repairs can be made till reinforcements arrive.
Stand as far away from gatekeeper as possible since that's usually targeted, so left side is best (not sure about gatekeeper targeting coz i don't have aoe spells
If door is at around 10% and no repairs can keep up, you move to lord.
Lord
Again, the most important thing about lord sieges is don't be a target to enemy aoe.. if you are dotted then so are all the other people around you. Interruption follows by various aoe spells.
If you're a healer (especially druids who don't need los to heal with spread heals) try and stay way out of sight. make sure resists are up, tanks guard pbaoe to be a pseudo moc. This way the real moc can be saved for an all out charge of the enemy. Without interrupts from enemy mages (if you kept out of sight only gtaoe can interrupt and that's real hard to target) and some nicely placed mezzes from bards on the charging enemies can provide a nice steady flow of targets for the pbaoe around the corner.
Buffing guards and lord helps a bit too. And if you're at dun crauchon you can also build some siege weaponry
These are just some tips for the realm, do with em what you will, any additions would be great.
If you bother to claim a keep, especially in our own realm please upgrade the doors!!!
Have had 2 keep defences (1 crau, 1 bolg) where doors were lvl 1!!
If you claim a keep, you get a bonus, some respect from the guild. Imo there are some responsibilities to realm defence associated with owning a keep:
- Notifying the realm when enemies are near
- Try and defend it yourself
- Keep the keep defendable (not lvl 1 keep because it costs so much bountypoints)
Door repair
If you repair doors for a keep, recommended wood to use is ironwood or heartwood.
If you want to upgrade a door to lvl 5, start by repairing the door fully at lvl 1, then upgrade to 2, repair to full health again and so further. Repairing at 1 lvl higher costs like twice as much as repairing 2 or 3 times at the previous level.
If you want to have doors at a suitable level to be repaired so you can keep the enemy at the 2nd gate the gate should be lvl 3 or 4, that way someone that brings around 200 ironwood can keep a door up for quite a bit of time, especially if more people who can repair bring wood. High level doors cost amazing amounts or costs of wood and no-one carries that.
If you want the keep to be defendable upgrade the outer door to lvl 4+. Any higher than 6 usually brings complaints and huge costs if you stop the enemy when they did some damage to it but didn't break it.
Wall defence
If you're on the walls you're a target. if you can't kill an enemy in 2 shots you shouldn't be there. A hero with a bow might get a kill or two but in exchange for that 5-10 people around you were targets affected by an aoe targeted on you, disease, str/con debuff, dot, dd.
So if you're going to be on the walls make sure you've got a better reason there than firing a shortbow. I know it's boring but it beats having like 2 fgs of res sick people on the wall with healers being oom all the time in the courtyard.
Courtyard
Try interrupting enemy mages with gtaoe and pbaoe, maybe even pbaoe dd if you're quick enough and try and stay a bit out of sight. That way pbaoe mages can clean up people at second gate or repairs can be made till reinforcements arrive.
Stand as far away from gatekeeper as possible since that's usually targeted, so left side is best (not sure about gatekeeper targeting coz i don't have aoe spells
If door is at around 10% and no repairs can keep up, you move to lord.
Lord
Again, the most important thing about lord sieges is don't be a target to enemy aoe.. if you are dotted then so are all the other people around you. Interruption follows by various aoe spells.
If you're a healer (especially druids who don't need los to heal with spread heals) try and stay way out of sight. make sure resists are up, tanks guard pbaoe to be a pseudo moc. This way the real moc can be saved for an all out charge of the enemy. Without interrupts from enemy mages (if you kept out of sight only gtaoe can interrupt and that's real hard to target) and some nicely placed mezzes from bards on the charging enemies can provide a nice steady flow of targets for the pbaoe around the corner.
Buffing guards and lord helps a bit too. And if you're at dun crauchon you can also build some siege weaponry
These are just some tips for the realm, do with em what you will, any additions would be great.