Keep takes and zone control BS
First let’s address Bablog’s comment in the previous post about how we only had our keep for 30 minutes Saturday:
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In any case, keep defenses were not nearly as exciting Sunday. I guess Destruction learned its lesson from Saturday, where we repelled several invasions in the span of seven hours. They zone hopped and avoided us like that annoying person at work who is always trying to get you to buy their daughter’s gee gaws to raise money for the PTA.
We took every keep in every zone save one, so by the time Destro got back from church (that’s where you were right?) we were pretty bored. Fortunately something other than Serpent’s Passage popped. Thunder Valley was a blast:
Lots of destro to fight, and they were actually trying.
Toward the evening, we heard that Order was trying to flip Reikland back to Order control. Except it didn’t quite work out. A group of Order went to grind PQs while a couple of groups of us (aka Fight on the Flag + stragglers who didn’t want to PVE) roamed around Reikland.
And when I say “roamed” I mean, “we don’t have a friggin clue where we’re going, so let’s run around and see who follows us.”
OK that’s everyone. We ran into a giant zerg at the northern battle objective, and fled to the force that was still dawdling at the keep, where we slaughtered the Destruction.
Which leads me to my latest rant here. Zone control mechanics are screwed up. Seriously. That group of Order grinded PQs for the better part of three hours. Even after we lost all of the keeps and BOs and convinced people to stop PVPing (I never thought I would say that) we had a couple slivers of victory points. We still ran a few scenarios (good fights all). But having to PVE to claim a zone is rather lame. I am not sure what zone control should be based off of, and since we are the underpopulated realm I am not sure there is much to be done.
Rather than PVE, our guild rolled new characters. If we can’t help the realm at least we wouldn’t hurt it.
Oh well. Overall I’d say the weekend was a success. We have a few new 40s and many others on the way and Saturday’s keep defense will not be long forgotten. See you next weekend!
Tags: keep defense, keep seige, RVR, Thunder Valley, Tier 4 Scenarios