Allright, the bots are not funny neither are these doorfights in wvwvw but what are A.net doin about the bots really???

The bots are bad.

The door banging is just people playing poorly.

Was taking over a keep, didn't have a ram, set up a catapult.  Even THAT was faster than banging on the door.  Any time you see a huge group of people headbutting a door, pretty stupid of them.

Haha!

Bots are common in every mmo though but seems to be a little bit more severe on this one.

However...  these Doorfights.... CRAP!

I voted Bots.

Bots are pretty bad - the worst is teleportation hacks - used now in dungeons to skip lots of content and WvW is just absurd if you run into a player that pops all over the place

anet is still yet to do something about it.

GW2 is being turned into a joke by these players that are rampantly exploiting teleportation hacks

Originally posted by Meowhead

The bots are bad.

The door banging is just people playing poorly.

Was taking over a keep, didn't have a ram, set up a catapult.  Even THAT was faster than banging on the door.  Any time you see a huge group of people headbutting a door, pretty stupid of them.

Does this game have boiling oil yet? Seems like something they should get to adding.

Originally posted by DavisFlight

Does this game have boiling oil yet? Seems like something they should get to adding.

Yeah, a keep upgraded with boiling oil is pretty horrifying.

I just wish there was a way to stealth it.  Haha, people totally see it coming and target the boiling oil first.

Be fun to stop a doorbanging zerg that way, just 'Oh surprise, we were hiding boiling oil under this tarp, and now you ALL DIE ALL AT ONCE'.

Originally posted by Meowhead

The bots are bad.

The door banging is just people playing poorly.

Was taking over a keep, didn't have a ram, set up a catapult.  Even THAT was faster than banging on the door.  Any time you see a huge group of people headbutting a door, pretty stupid of them.

They do it for Retaliation, anyone that tries to hit folks on the door will get 20% of the damage reflected back to them, also there's really bad clipping with the door, so people attack the door to prevent anyone on the inside from repairing.

Originally posted by ABRaquel

Originally posted by Meowhead

The bots are bad.

The door banging is just people playing poorly.

Was taking over a keep, didn't have a ram, set up a catapult.  Even THAT was faster than banging on the door.  Any time you see a huge group of people headbutting a door, pretty stupid of them.

They do it for Retaliation, anyone that tries to hit folks on the door will get 20% of the damage reflected back to them, also there's really bad clipping with the door, so people attack the door to prevent anyone on the inside from repairing.

Oh, it's fine to have SOME people attacking the door.

Just if that's your whole plan, it's pretty stupid.  :I  The actual amount of attacking the door (Without siege equipment) that goes on should be pretty low.  Good siege equipment just melts through a door. :I

Originally posted by Meowhead

Originally posted by ABRaquel

Originally posted by Meowhead

The bots are bad.

The door banging is just people playing poorly.

Was taking over a keep, didn't have a ram, set up a catapult.  Even THAT was faster than banging on the door.  Any time you see a huge group of people headbutting a door, pretty stupid of them.

They do it for Retaliation, anyone that tries to hit folks on the door will get 20% of the damage reflected back to them, also there's really bad clipping with the door, so people attack the door to prevent anyone on the inside from repairing.

Oh, it's fine to have SOME people attacking the door.

Just if that's your whole plan, it's pretty stupid.  :I  The actual amount of attacking the door (Without siege equipment) that goes on should be pretty low.  Good siege equipment just melts through a door. :I

Yeah, usually my guild has half the melee at the door, the other half watching our backs, all of ranged AoE the ramparts to prevent the defenders from killing us and also to destroy any arrowcarts (those things are quite annoying)

EDIT: We do use Flaming Rams (1 if the door is not reinforced, 2 if it is)

Originally posted by Meowhead

The bots are bad.

The door banging is just people playing poorly.

Was taking over a keep, didn't have a ram, set up a catapult.  Even THAT was faster than banging on the door.  Any time you see a huge group of people headbutting a door, pretty stupid of them.

This ^

If you are banging on a door for more than a couple minutes you are either A) doing it wrong, or B) have strong opposition.. and are still likely doing it wrong.

Even though there have been numerous publicized tactics for taking down keeps that don't use the door, people still go for the front, obvious, boring door fight everytime. Many never even bring rams.

Bots are definitely the big issue atm w/ this game. They've been doing a lot already, but they will need to do more. Botting has always been in a big problem for Anet. Even GW1 has a huge botting problem to this day. On the bright side, the bots don't really have an effect on the average player tbh, outside of perhaps WvW. They are mostly just annoying.

Wish more 'seige' warfare was promoted such as destroying keeps and the likes. Seems just like they gave up half way through.

Still, bots are easily the problem. The fact they can teleport around and easily exploit the game though makes this problem MUCH worst.

Originally posted by Purutzil

Wish more 'seige' warfare was promoted such as destroying keeps and the likes. Seems just like they gave up half way through.

 

Still, bots are easily the problem. The fact they can teleport around and easily exploit the game though makes this problem MUCH worst.

You can destroy keeps, though. People just don't often do it.

In fact, the way my server generally attacks stonemist is by ignoring the doors and tearing down the walls.

Originally posted by FrodoFragins
I don't see the problem with door banging while you have rams hitting it.  It just adds dps as long as you don't die and the oil is always targeted first anyway.

Well, right, that's fine.  ... but some people seem to think large masses of people just hitting the door with their auto attack is how it's supposed to be done (Not naming any names, though looking at posts above yours is pretty revealing).  It's even used as a critique of GW2, as if their own failure at using siege equipment is Arenanet's fault.

I've never seen that tactic used when there's even a single competent person in a group. :I  I often end up with random siege equipment just from playing, so if I'm with a group, I'm willing to set up a ram, or catapult, or whatever.  Or an arrow cart to hold a choke point, stuff like that.

Originally posted by FrodoFragins
I don't see the problem with door banging while you have rams hitting it.  It just adds dps as long as you don't die and the oil is always targeted first anyway.

If there's nothing else to do, then it helps. But compared to the dmg you do w/ siege equipment it's very negligeable.

It's often better to focus on taking down defenses like cannons, defenders, oil, etc. than to bang on the door. Even scouting / running interception on the enemy reinforcements & supplies is generally much more beneficial than beating on the door w/ your weapon.

Keep in mind siege weapons are hitting the doors for a few thousand, while most players won't hit for more than 100.

Originally posted by aesperus

It's often better to focus on taking down defenses like cannons, defenders, oil, etc. than to bang on the door. Even scouting / running interception on the enemy reinforcements & supplies is generally much more beneficial than beating on the door w/ your weapon.

I like using the '2' ability on my sceptre as a Guardian.  Makes it really uncomfortable to stand on a piece of wall. :D

Also, yeah, being able to chain, knock back/block off people trying to run into the keep is really, really useful.

I've seen keep attacks do a poor job of that and suddenly there's almost as many people inside as there are outside, and it's all downhill from there. :/

Bots are bad yes. But frankly is the problem a bit overrated, I played a lot and never seen an obvious bot in GW2. Sure, there might have been bots I havnt noticed, many even but people here make it sounds like they are everywhere all the time.

Morons banging on doors is not a problem as long as they are on the opposing sides. Seriously, how do you stop people from playing badly? More kills for me at least.

Nah, there are other stuff that need more attention, bots are bads but the account hackings are really what the security guys should have as main focus. Or tracking everyone who send large amounts of gold so they can ban the goldbuyers, that solves both most boths and account hacks rather soon. 

The PvP devs should work more on balance and making WvWvW better.