Stronghold PvP Thoughts

shoukons

SH PvP has been out for a week or so now and wanted to see what the community thought about it. Just some things I noticed.

1. PvP isn't so intensive in SH PvP. There's some fights and then you're protecting nodes and allocating resources. Kind of nice actually.
2. No communication no victory.
3. The dragon wrecks the snot out of the SH/Catas.
4. I think that SH is going to last just until the major guilds get their gear and have some fun and it will die off (mostly due to longer q times). After the gear is gotten there is no incentive to continue playing SH and most will go back to Dom/GG so use their new gear there.
5. Overall, SH is a great mod that brought guilds and players within the guilds together and more modes such as SH should be put into NW in the future.

Just looking for more of your guys thoughts on it.

Some footage of Denial premades going at it in SH.

20 v 20 Stronghold PvP! Denial vs Taktiks +++

SH PvP! Denial vs Look Good Play Good ++

azuosed89

I agree. Unfortunately, #4 is exactly what happened on PC. I think it is due the game event not offering really anything past the gear resources. A lot of players there are asking to add new rewards so it becomes attractive again.
Maybe give seals? rough AD in even more quantity? guild leaderboards?

armadeonx

I like the guild stronghold concept and it's working well at BR too, people are getting together more and that's a combination of having goals and having a 'home'. Customisation options would be a nice touch - designing a guild logo and putting it on flags in the hold, move things around for aesthetics etc.

I do wish that after you've done a pvp match or dungeon it loaded you back to the stronghold rather than dumping you back to the location you zoned into the SH from!

How long are you guys waiting in queue for a SH match? My guys have queued a couple of times but got bored after 30 mins and people started quitting.

azuosed89

armadeonx said:

I like the guild stronghold concept and it's working well at BR too, people are getting together more and that's a combination of having goals and having a 'home'. Customisation options would be a nice touch - designing a guild logo and putting it on flags in the hold, move things around for aesthetics etc.

I do wish that after you've done a pvp match or dungeon it loaded you back to the stronghold rather than dumping you back to the location you zoned into the SH from!

How long are you guys waiting in queue for a SH match? My guys have queued a couple of times but got bored after 30 mins and people started quitting.

I usually got fast pops, but usually my guild queue with many groups, so I think this helps.

shoukons

armadeonx said:

I like the guild stronghold concept and it's working well at BR too, people are getting together more and that's a combination of having goals and having a 'home'. Customisation options would be a nice touch - designing a guild logo and putting it on flags in the hold, move things around for aesthetics etc.

I do wish that after you've done a pvp match or dungeon it loaded you back to the stronghold rather than dumping you back to the location you zoned into the SH from!

How long are you guys waiting in queue for a SH match? My guys have queued a couple of times but got bored after 30 mins and people started quitting.

One nice thing about constantly qing with 20 guild members is that the q's are very fast. It also creates an enemy team from the pool of people waiting in smaller groups which makes for quicker q's also for everyone.

armadeonx

Thanks, oh how I'm (not) looking forward to coming up against a 20 man Denial team - lol

shoukons

armadeonx said:

Thanks, oh how I'm (not) looking forward to coming up against a 20 man Denial team - lol

Join us and You can Be that 20 man Denial team. =D

armadeonx

lol I suspect my DC and CW are currently a little shy of acceptable spec for you guys, they do alright but still around 50% RI and 9k power on both of them. Also I don't have a mic atm

mercbenz360

I think you sum it up really well.

Its definitely not the place to earn glory, so I'm also concerned it'll die due to the organization needed and the lack of non SH\"personal" rewards. Very fun mode though, and I love that I feel like I learn something or get a bit better each time due to the depth and strategy.

zman81420

waiting for hours to get one Q pop with 10 guildies ready.... I want to play not farm the same few HE over and over waiting.

shoukons

zman81420 said:

waiting for hours to get one Q pop with 10 guildies ready.... I want to play not farm the same few HE over and over waiting.

Denial will be 20 man quing tonight so it'll shorten those q's.

indylol

SH has been a god bit of fun getting 10-15 in together and running the lanes and cutting supplies. I love the how they really did capture the feel of a moba by making you drop your gathered dragon supplies and gold so it truely punishs you for being greedy and hoarding supplies. The dragon is also a great swing mechanic that you can cram 15g in there when the enemy is below 1k hp for a quick execute. All in all im happy with the pvp and LGPG plans on playing it for fun when were not busy with 4 dragons

@shoukons that video seems to be VS Well Endowed so you know. Our guild has multiple towers built and they are... Lacking in defensive structures. We did have a great game vs gannicus and co this morning.

azuosed89

indylol said:

SH has been a god bit of fun getting 10-15 in together and running the lanes and cutting supplies. I love the how they really did capture the feel of a moba by making you drop your gathered dragon supplies and gold so it truely punishs you for being greedy and hoarding supplies. The dragon is also a great swing mechanic that you can cram 15g in there when the enemy is below 1k hp for a quick execute. All in all im happy with the pvp and LGPG plans on playing it for fun when were not busy with 4 dragons



@shoukons that video seems to be VS Well Endowed so you know. Our guild has multiple towers built and they are... Lacking in defensive structures. We did have a great game vs gannicus and co this morning.

yeah man! it was really fun. it was pretty tense, especially at the beginning.

zman81420

shoukons said:

zman81420 said:

waiting for hours to get one Q pop with 10 guildies ready.... I want to play not farm the same few HE over and over waiting.

Denial will be 20 man quing tonight so it'll shorten those q's.

Can't wait....Tell @azuosed89 to take it easy on me lol. I'm sure I will see you on.

shoukons

We've had SH for a while now. What are everyone's thoughts and feelings about it now? Have they changed since the first week we had it?

I've noticed that DC/OP do a lot of tanking on nodes. It's about all we/they can do since it takes them 2034859094908 years to kill a Golem which is a big downer.


Game Denial had against a 12-15 LGPG in SH. Was best game so far.

1 Bul Pally Tanking For DAYS! SH PvP: 20 Denial vs 12-15 LGPG

My favorite moment of this game was at 25:45-27:40 where Neptune saves me from about 6ish enemies and then eventually getting killed right at the end =(.

s4v10rx

shoukons said:

We've had SH for a while now. What are everyone's thoughts and feelings about it now? Have they changed since the first week we had it?

I've noticed that DC/OP do a lot of tanking on nodes. It's about all we/they can do since it takes them 2034859094908 years to kill a Golem which is a big downer.


Game Denial had against a 12-15 LGPG in SH. Was best game so far.

1 Bul Pally Tanking For DAYS! SH PvP: 20 Denial vs 12-15 LGPG

My favorite moment of this game was at 25:45-27:40 where Neptune saves me from about 6ish enemies and then eventually getting killed right at the end =(.

hey shou, let me know when ur guild is doing SH, i would more than happy enough to join n with u as a team or against you as we don't really wanna wait for an hour to have a sh siege. mg GT: FatalEvening165. in fact i encourage every pvpers from other guild to add me as i would love to team up or going against with other good players in PVP

shoukons

s4v10rx said:

shoukons said:

We've had SH for a while now. What are everyone's thoughts and feelings about it now? Have they changed since the first week we had it?

I've noticed that DC/OP do a lot of tanking on nodes. It's about all we/they can do since it takes them 2034859094908 years to kill a Golem which is a big downer.


Game Denial had against a 12-15 LGPG in SH. Was best game so far.

1 Bul Pally Tanking For DAYS! SH PvP: 20 Denial vs 12-15 LGPG

My favorite moment of this game was at 25:45-27:40 where Neptune saves me from about 6ish enemies and then eventually getting killed right at the end =(.

hey shou, let me know when ur guild is doing SH, i would more than happy enough to join n with u as a team or against you as we don't really wanna wait for an hour to have a sh siege. mg GT: FatalEvening165. in fact i encourage every pvpers from other guild to add me as i would love to team up or going against with other good players in PVP

Sounds great. Rolltide can always pst me in game or on xbox and let me know when he has groups up so we can q up against each other.

On a side note: How useless are those PvP towers.