dotme wrote: »

geonsocal wrote: »

]...after about four or five months of listening to people eating chips and coughing in my ear (with a bit of barking dog and crying baby thrown in), i was able to go back to rolling solo...

You forgot to mention chirping smoke detectors and mic feedback/echo...echo...echo... lol

Can't really add much to the excellent advice above, save knowing what siege to use and where (and you may already know this).

Basically, regular ballistas work best for hitting keep walls (They do 2x the damage of fire and/or lightning ballistas and are a little faster than stone trebs. They can also be placed closer to one another).

Fire ballistas are good against enemy siege weapons.

When sieging from the front of a keep or outpost, hit the wood (door). When sieging from the side, do not hit the door (Does no damage) - hit the stonework instead. Avoid hitting sections of outer walls that have doors in them. On inner posterns and outposts, even hitting the steps can do damage and help bring down the side wall)

If you're happy solo, maybe just support offensive keep strikes by setting up siege, or if your stamblade is a bow/range build, keep the defenders from popping their heads too far out on those walls with some well-chosen snipes and poison injections.

Oils are still good for helping defend, generally more effective on flags than above the door, but door oils can slow down an attack, giving defenders more time to arrive.

Solo also lends itself well to scouting. There's not much AP in that, but you can alert your faction to an impending attack via Zone text chat and that's very helpful.