why the lack of keep guards?

dsalter

keeps have a horribly low amount of guards posted, i mean i can actually sneak around a whole keeps courtyard with very little worry for my own safety andeven pick of guards because of the fact they are usually placed in solo's.

i mean if these keeps are so valuble, why the lack of NPC defence?

i recommend placing an archer 2 spots appart on the roofs (basicly where oils commonly go), all mage guards have an archer with them on the outter walls, the corner mages have 2 archers and a mender with the mender being further back and several more patrolling inner melee guards. as at the moment guards are barelly an issue 4 people can easily take a keeps outter and inner wall, and sometimes even capture the keep itself due to how push over the guards are.

the AI is another thing that needs looked at, they like to try "chase" targets that are no longer in range of them and ignore the several others running past them, why are they not target switching sooner?

Halrloprillalar

lolwat

dsalter

Halrloprillalar wrote: »

lolwat

can tell this is likely a troll response but i'll respond any ways for others sake.
the guards that guard keeps are almost non-impactfull. more guards need to be added to keeps so that they cant be 4 manned easily, these are key locations not some resource.

orginized groups will still face roll them. just it'll take alittle longer

Turelus

Because people are meant to defend and make it PVP, not PVE.

All those archer spots can be filled by player archers and mages.

Halrloprillalar

Not many groups can 4man a keep, and even then only if it's completely undefended by PCs.

Guards are already a huge nuisance, we don't need more PVE

Agrippa_Invisus

Buff wall HP (by a LOT).

Nerf guards.

Cody

idk how you took a keep with only 4 players. The only way you could have done so is if you use the FOTM(or most optimized, however you know it) builds and the keep had ZERO enemy players in it. You cant go thru front doors, the NPCs would tear you apart, so you had to go through the walls. the flags have at least 2 honor guards, along with other keep guards. you must have gotten lucky, as, again, I don't see how 4 players could capture a keep. You and the other three players with you must be some of the best in the entire game. good for you, but not everyone is that good at the game.

Have you even taken into account the Non-veteran only campaign? players get killed in sometimes 1 hit by these keep guards! heck VETERAN rank players have a hard time with them. im Vr12 in all epics and legendries and I can only take one at a time. and only if they are melee guards and menders. everything else will kill me. Guards are fine the way they are, the game does not need to be adjusted to fit the wants of the so few percentage of players that are god like at this game.

If you need extra defenders, use Zone chat and call for them. If no one comes, then you lose the keep. So what? its not the end of the world, just capture it back.