Guild Wars 2 Commander Camp -- A Practical Overview of Dreadfall Bay // Ascension Bay

-- Let's start with a disclaimer. I'm not a PPT guy, or a siege master. There's a lot that goes into deciding where to siege an objective, and what hits where. This is general overview stuff, a foundation from which you can add some specialty knowledge later on as you talk to more people. If you are a siege wizard, and you want to share some of your arcane knowledge, hit up the comments!
-- Before Commander Camp, I was a guest on Quietly's Say Chat podcast, where we talked about commanding in World vs. World. You can find those podcast episodes here: • Say Chat Season One
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-- Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:37 Objective Overview
00:57 South Outer Bay
02:48 North Outer Bay
04:22 Inner Bay
05:00 Terrain and Positioning
06:02 Lord's Room
07:08 Outro
-- Housekeeping:
I thought it'd be fun to time myself working on CC3. Not minute to minute, but just a general, opened DaVinci at X:00pm, closed and saved at Y:00pm. Eleven hours of "sitting at a computer in front of DaVinci" work on this one. Now, can I get that time down in the future? Yeah, of course. I taught myself a few things here that took some time to figure out. But man, still. I hope the tower videos are shorter. :)
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[@Ipod888brooklyn]

That was awesome. Thank you!!!

[@RbDaP]

borderlands are quickly becoming my favorite WvW maps, and Bay in particular is always a good battle, both for defending and attacking. TY for the guide sheriff, many people dont know about the siege spots lately so it's nice to have a handy guide to direct a squad to!

[@rhaz2282]

Super clear and concise video! I love the use of seige markers on map and the at a glance companion guide. It really helps me visualize the area cohesively!

[@sheffplaysgames]

I'm not totally happy with that companion -- I felt like it was useful enough to post along with the video, but I definitely want to keep iterating on the design and information that it contains. We'll see how I can tweak it further. :)

[@imagorilla95]

Just discovered this channel and it's incredible. I've been looking for something like this for a while!

[@sheffplaysgames]

Happy to provide. :)

[@Saint_Cuthbert]

Great guide, thanks Sheff

[@Aalii6]

👍👍

[@cheshirecat742]

Amazing job, you explained everything really well, for sure earned a sub and recommending if I know someone who wants to know about this stuff :)

[@sheffplaysgames]

Sincerely appreciated. :)

[@argumentum-ad-absurdum]

Great video absolutely loving this new series. i always felt like wvw is suffering from a serious lack of fight oriented commanders and its great to see you making this series to bring wvw back to life. Could you do a video where you explain the calls a commander makes from a commanders point of view and the different steps of a fight like empowering doing a fake push range spiking or bombing.

[@sheffplaysgames]

Yes -- Communication is going to be one of the next two or three videos, which is going to get at some of that. "Steps of a fight" comes down to your squad composition, though. We'll get at that a little bit when we talk about how to build a squad, but a lot of times, the calls that a commander makes come down to the way that they built their squad (or, the kind of people that ended up joining that night if you open tag).

[@argumentum-ad-absurdum]

@@sheffplaysgames sounds great i cant wait for the next parts

[@Filderich]

Thank you for the guide series - but would LOVE to see you cover the defensive siege placement on objectives. That is a thing that is very hard to learn and I'm yet to see any guides on that! Keep up the good work! :)

[@sheffplaysgames]

That's been a common request on the Reddit post as well. I'll probably update the visual companion first, and then see about putting that information in the videos later on. The nice thing about the visual companion is I can change and update it pretty much any time I want. The videos are a bit more permanent, unfortunately.

[@Filderich]

@@sheffplaysgames niiiiice - looking forward!!! :)

[@metallonegw2283]

I hate sieging , but your video make me want to , lol

[@sheffplaysgames]

I like to use siege to force fights and defenses at specific spots in an objective. It's not *just* for breaking down walls and gates, you can also use it to dictate where people have to fight you to defend. :)

[@SirPureBS]

What about watergate walls? You dont mention them in the video

[@sheffplaysgames]

Counterpoint: what is a gate if not two walls, next to one another? It's very briefly mentioned at the start of the North Outer chapter, but I could have sworn there was a metal grate down there and not two walls. I think I got it mixed up with another keep and didn't double-check because it's such a weird spot.

[@SirPureBS]

​@sheffplaysgames there is 2 walls, the metal gate you are thinking of is the portal(or maybe green keep ebg)

[@azureavocado8463]

You missed sieging outer bay from ruins , and from SW camp Kappa