WvW Portable canon

[DaVid Darksoul.4985]

I loved cannon blueprints, saw no problem with them. They gave defenders a little extra help, and due to placement restrictions were easily targeted by attackers (at least those smart enough to do so). Seems the only ones whom disliked them were those that wanted all objectives to be as poorly defended as possible, so their zerg could karma train with little effort. Sorta like all those crying now about scrounge, eventho scrounge can be ranged down fast. Maybe that role could be opened to rangers supporting zergs.

[ArchonWing.9480]

I thought they were pretty funny honestly. They should have had a stricter minimum firing distance though and being able to put so many together was dumb.

[MedievalThings.5417]

OK, here is the solution for everyone.

1. They add portable cannons, and they add wheels so they can be slowly moved in combat. Placing and using a portable cannon requires four people.
2. Three things must be placed before a portable cannon can be placed. Hence, the "requires" three other players. One player deploys a bow, a second a stern and the third a mast. They will hold these objects and can not use their class skills.
3. All of the players involved in deploying a portable cannon move at RP walk speed.
4. The person manning the cannon can fire and move it, but can not dismount it until destroyed. If any of the four are killed, the portable cannon can no longer move.

Problem solved.

[Baldrick.8967]

Given the current state of wvw and scourges, perhaps cannons aren't such a bad idea after all...

[Hitman.5829]

Oh god no, maguma would siege all tier 1 towers and camps with 1000 canons and they will never leave the comfort of their tower.

[X T D.6458]

Please no to this garbage, I never want to see it again. They cant fix the broken siege mechanics already in place, why add more?

[Titan.3472]

May be the best would be to finally have a Poll about portable canon release (or not), no ? Sometime I can read people complaining about zergs, another day people complain about shield generator on gates BUT when we had the portable canons both these issues had a new way to deal with and it seemed fun and efficient in these scenario. May be some people can think about others situation but i do believe portable canons have their place and role in wvw. A poll would just give the community answer to this dividing question. During that week we had these canons smaller groups had even set up portable canons traps to take on very larger forces and won, isn't a request some had to give smaller groups a chance to take over larger forces too, like taking out an omega golem rush (not like its uncommon event) ? On the Fun scale rating i gave a 8/10 for portable canons, isn't a game about fun ? If you want to limit their spread may be add a seller in SMC that can sell one per week only to people who have a commander tag and a rank level higher than a desired level with unlocked wvw skill in trade for example with an expensive cost too in wvw currency and gold but in this scenario they would have to remain as powerful to justify this limited access.

[Cerby.1069]

@Titan.3472 said:May be the best would be to finally have a Poll about portable canon release (or not), no ?

Best and viable have nothing to do with each-other in this community.

You'll have to make the act of taking and setting up the poll viable. In order to do this you will need an argument that is 40% logic, 30% memes, and 30% popular ideas. In other words the majority of what you preach must be worthless to the betterment of the game.

[Malerian.8435]

Please no. Never again. It was horrible.

[Trajan.4953]

Yes! Please! Bring back the cannons!

If we are going to Pirate Ship we need the right tools!

[Kyon.9735]

Yarr! People want more tools for pirate ship meta eh?