1. Why is this run taking three hours?
   
2. Why are we holding last on wave 2 for ten minutes?
   
3. How can I contribute to the team if there is no room for me to slash/shoot/throw?
   
4. Why are we holding last on wave 19 for twenty minutes? What's going on? Why are people dying repeatedly and why am I tabbed out reading reddit while they are doing it?
   
   

1. Use TeamSpeak if you are able to. It isn't necessary for you to speak as long as you can follow orders or react properly to situations involving breaches or wraiths, but it is a bonus if you can give useful feedback and information to the team.
   
   
2. If you bring in a support item, use it. Don't bring it in and just drop it somewhere on the ground expecting someone else to place your barricade or use your medic box.
   
   
3. If there is no dedicated healer for your team, use 3 medic boxes at the end of each wave and then refill them along with your other ammo. This way, the team will not have to wait in line to heal.
   
   
4. Use medic boxes. The DPS of the team is correlated with how risky each attack will be. If your team is at full health, they will be more willing to continue taking risks and finish off the wave faster as a result.
   
   
5. Do not overcrowd slashing spots. If there aren't enough slashing spots for your team, it is likely that you should widen the shield line. If there is one shielder, you can usually have two slashers. Two shielders allow for three slashers. Three shielders allow for five slashers. There are exceptions when you add in pikemen with long weapons.
   
   
6. Understand your team composition. If your lineup is commando heavy, build your barricades accordingly.
   
   
7. Do not overcrowd shooting/throwing spots. This leads to a phenomenon known as double peeking, which gets your allies killed and actually decreases the speed of the run. If there are no more good spots to throw or shoot from, you should instead do one of the following: heal the team with medic boxes, shuffle the tomes and barricades so that they do not despawn, or reinforce the barricades.
   
   
8. You should never be standing idle between waves. If you have time to be standing around you could be building barricades, shuffling items, toming for more barricades/barrels/tomes, or moving on to the next wave. Someone is usually holding the last bot. Don't force him to spend 30 minutes doing it.
   
   
9. Do not do things mindlessly. Evaluate and re-evaluate the situation whenever you can as situations tend to deteriorate very quickly when you're not paying attention. The most important thing is having the ability to adapt.
   
   
10. Use the score screen (default key: tab). Players should be checking this screen frequently to check whether you are close to the end of the wave and to quickly ascertain the health of the team.
    
    The score screen will inform your decision making. Will the team be okay for the next wave? Should a tome be used? If the majority of the players on the top of the scoreboard are dead, it's a good time to tome. High DPS is necessary for a fast run. If one or more of your shielders are dead, it's a good time to tome. Do not muck about in indecision about toming, but make sure that you announce your intentions so that other living players are prepared. Each player should be able to come to these conclusions individually.
    

1. Archers can refill their quivers by taking the ammo off of fallen Nords. Do this between waves rather than hogging the ammo refill box. The arrows you pick up will be the same quality as those of the first arrow you pick up. The type of arrow you are using will be shown by the quiver on your character.
   
   
2. If you are a class that does not have the luxury of refilling your ammo from the corpses of fallen foes, you should begin your ammo refilling as the wave winds down. If there are only four bots left visible, not every archer/crossbowman/pikeman on the team has to try to kill them. Get a headstart on refilling your ammo instead.
   
   
3. Give feedback of what you see to the team. Players on the ground can use information of what you see to determine their best course of action.
   

1. If there are 6 commandos on your team, adjust the size of your shield wall accordingly. Using three shielders is more efficient than using only one because it allows for more spots from which other players can slash. Furthermore, you lose fewer barricades because more attention is focused on the shields.
   
   
2. A staggered shield wall can be a lot more effective than a straight shield line. In most cases, it can give a better angle to attack from and can compensate more slashers.
   
   
3. Decrease your idle time as much as possible. Follow shielders out and try to understand what they are doing. Remember to always leave room for retreat. Do not stop moving in areas where players will be exposed to ranged fire. If the shielders set up an impromptu shield wall at the front, they will need slashers.
   
   
4. When it is the end of the wave, go out and hold last so that the shielder can repair. If another slasher has already taken the last Nord, look for barricades that haven't been placed and reinforce the barricades as needed.
   

(20-03-2014, 04:49 AM)madjosh link Wrote: you forgot to add the part about siphoning through 70% (maybe 80% now) of the maps which take 3-4 hours to complete no matter how efficient the team is and that your better off flipping the map in order to optimise run efficiency

Quote:    Follow shielders out and try to understand what they are doing. If the shielders set up an impromptu shield wall at the front, they will need slashers. 

(20-03-2014, 04:49 AM)madjosh link Wrote: you forgot to add the part about siphoning through 70% (maybe 80% now) of the maps which take 3-4 hours to complete no matter how efficient the team is and that your better off flipping the map in order to optimise run efficiency

(20-03-2014, 02:04 PM)Maroon link Wrote: It's not always a good idea to keep placing all the barricades still unbuilt, as having some packed up back-up barricades in case something goes wrong is almost never a bad idea.

(20-03-2014, 03:40 PM)Deer link Wrote: In some situations this can be dangerous for the shielder; especially with the way some people slash (not knowing when to backup/ blocking the shielder from getting back into a safe place). I know that these are things that should be done, but in some situations they are advanced tactics and should be done with caution and more knowledge of how the shielding AND slashing roles both work ( and how they need to work together).
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(20-03-2014, 01:31 PM)-Perception- link Wrote: You also forgot to write sth about the good old toming problem, half the team dies for useful stuff, and those few that remain alive just stand around being idle, waiting for hours til finally someone feels like dropping a tome..

(20-03-2014, 01:34 PM)human_being link Wrote: [quote author=madjosh link=topic=24420.msg170850#msg170850 date=1395290967]
you forgot to add the part about siphoning through 70% (maybe 80% now) of the maps which take 3-4 hours to complete no matter how efficient the team is and that your better off flipping the map in order to optimise run efficiency