Guild Wars 2: Stronghold Basics

How to queue for Stronghold

On the top right portion of your screen click the swords to open the PvP menu.

Then check the Stronghold checkbox in Unranked Preferences

Map

Legend:

Shield: Archer and Door Breaker summoning locations
Barrel: Supply spawn location x2
Grey Fist: Mist Spawn locations
Trebuchet: Trebuchet locations
Helm: Lord location
Right base/side: Red Team
Left base/side: Blue Team

Map

Battle of Champion's Dusk

Teams

- Red - Starts at a dock
- Blue - Starts in a castle

Supply

- You begin the game with 1 supply
- You can only carry 2 supply at a time
- Killing an enemy that is carrying supply will cause them to drop it
- Players who die in the enemy’s base will drop 2 supply
- Anyone can pick up supplies dropped by anyone else.

Summons

- Door Breakers
  - Cost 1 supply
  - Deals large amount of damage to doors
  - Dies to the enemy Guards in 1 hit
- Archers
  - Cost 1 supply
  - Deals small amount of damage to doors
  - Deals a good amount of damage to Guards

Offense Lane

- Guards
  - 1st set in front of the 1st gate
  - 2nd set behind the 1st gate
  - 3rd set in front of the 2nd gate which leads to the Lord room
- Doors
  - Players cannot do damage to the doors. Only Door Breakers, Archers, and Mist Champions can do this.

Defense Lane

- Just like the offense lane, you’ll have an equal placement of guards, doors, trebuchet, elite guards, and lord.

Trebuchet

- - Damages enemies, knocks down enemies, and does break bar damage to Mist Champions
  - Dmg vs NPCs
    - Door Breakers x2
    - Archers x 2
    - Mist Champions - takes too many hits to be viable to kill
  - Certain Mist Heroes can be aggroed if hit before he reaches gate
  - 1 supply Repairs trebuchet
  - Trebuchet reaches both of your gates, central supply, and defense lane mist. It does NOT hit the offense lane mist.

Mist Champion Spawns

- Cost no supply
- The announcement to summon a Mist Champion comes 30 seconds before it is available.
  - 12:00 - losing team’s side
  - 9:00 - random side
  - 6:00 - random side
  - 3:00 - random side
  - 0:00 - random side
- Channeling can only be interrupted by CC

Mist Champion & Abilities

Each Mist Champion will have different attributes: attack, defense, and speed

Summon Ability (War Cry), Ally AoE Buff (Passive), Lord Room Skill (Elite)

- Turai Ossa
  - A defensive hero
  - 2 pips of Offense, 4 pips of Defense, and 3 pips of Speed
  - Shield of Elona, Desert Carapace, Bane of Joko
- Grymm Svaard
  - An Offensive hero
  - 4 pips of Offense, 3 pips of Defense, and 2 pips of Speed
  - Cannon Barrage, Steel and Fury, Nomad II Broadside
- Lightbringer Tybalt Leftpaw
  - A defensive hero
  - 3 pips of Offense, 4 pips of Defense, and 2 pips of Speed
  - Apple Drop, An Apple a Day, Rotten Apple
- Nika
  - A specialist hero
  - 3 pips of Offense, 2 pips of Defense, and 4 pips of Speed
  - Furtive Glance, Smoke and Daggers, Fade to Black

The Mist Champions will attack you only if you’re next to the gate.

Obtaining Other Mist Champions

By default, everyone will have Turai Ossa as their starter hero.

Mist Champions are unlocked in the PvP interface by going to the Mist Champions tab then right clicking the hero you want and pay 15 gold.

Complete the reward track with the hero’s name in it after purchase

Grymm Svaard
- No game requirement
Lightbringer Tybalt Leftpaw
- Requires Heart of Thorns
Nika
- Requires Heart of Thorns

Lord Room

- Elite Guards
  - Elite Mage
  - Elite Cleric
  - Elte Soldier
  - Elite Ranger
- Lord
  - Skills - The lord will do regular strike skills in addition to:
    - Scorpion Wire
    - Dagger Storm
    - Whirling Wrath
    - You'll want to avoid these skills
  - Downed - Will use: Throw Rock and Wave of Light (the guardian push back skill) when someone tries to stomp
  - Rezed - If the team rezes the lord then he will come back to 50% total health

Win Conditions

- Killing Enemy Lord
- When the timer runs out, winning by points
  - If the timer runs out and the lord is in combat, then the game will go into overtime until the lord dies or is out of combat. Once this happens the team with the most points will win.

Scoring

- 5 points for player killed
- 5 for guards killed outside of the enemy base for a total of 20 points (if defense lane guards are killed)
- 10 points for each guard killed past the 1st gate (excluding the Elite guards in the lord room)
- 20 points for summoning a Mist Champion
- 50 points for breaking a gate

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