Quote Originally Posted by xtianusxerxes_6754308 View Post
I dont know about other servers but the one I play on is a fairly decent example of a one-sided fight, 10 of the top 12 in one guild, etc. etc. Before the patch came out our guild would survive about two rounds into the GWF, just long enough to die by the second wave of coiners. After the patch came out we won the first GWF against the dominant guild in our server for months, while this was not entirely due to the patch it did help us survive long enough for real strategy to kick in, hence our win. I think the patch does give more power to smaller members/attackers than is due but it is definitely not enough for a small guild to beat a big guild by itself. If the dominant guild on our server used some strategy they would probably have no trouble taking back and keeping their city. As for the making alts to win...... that theory would make it about as far as I as could throw a semi-truck in my opinion, first off in a server that is dead enough to have an alt for each member is going to have a dominant or two dominant guilds as well, and those guilds will have probably 90% of the alts on the server, at least thats how it is in my opinion.

So, my conclusion, does this patch change things? Yes, for sure. Is it fair? probably not, but then, define fair. Should it stay? I think yes because it will cause dominant guilds to use their minds and it will give smaller guilds a chance to win. In fights between equal opponents it should only make the fight that much more interesting. An idea might be to make GWF 45 rnds rather than 30 as an equal fight with this new patch could very well take an hour and a half.






The first day of the patch I would have agreed with you as our small guild won a city from the only city who had owned one for months, rather than taking a sound thumping, as had been happening for months, I have found reason to find different reasons for big guilds losing to little guilds as we also soundly thumped them the next day on defense, I believe alot of the losses that are happening lately have been due to a general laziness cultivated in big guilds from not having to use any strategy for as long as they can remember.
strategy wont work when adam crits 15k into a half power guy with god knows how much boosted hp