Strangely ch/m gate hold dont realy change SW top points.
Top guilds still there. Havenot seen gate alt guild been on top for a while. Ofc there is time when you lose to 4-6 tower fcap. But there is no guild who can pull in constantly.
If they do then they deserved it cause it need good cordination.
And to hold gates also not easy thees days even with invisible ch./m. Oppos just flame tower outside and gg or camp at gates and tab anything that comes close.
Unbr have good idea to use cata +ch/m to not get alts killed. Thats one solution, but i wonder how it works vs flame tower spam.
Thing is there is many ways to play and that some says sw is cool only when you power fight all sw is wrong. Who says that oppos must be even seen. Hell just hold gates, go all rogues and dont kill single oppo but fcap when ever you think is needed. That would only make pvp gears useless if they cant find you :D. And im sure ch/m + fcap is not cause they dont wana fight. But moustly cause there is no chanse. We all want to win.
To realy fight strong guilds you cant duo them not even trio. So you need good groups of geared players to fight off like Noc, Thunder or some others.
For example last sw vs Noc. We got like 1 mid geared pvp ch/m+ p/k +p/r (k.m or r/d). Well we got 3-4 not bad geared for frontlines vs 12 very good geared players. So what are the odds?
Other example is Divinity. They have very good geared players t15 weps and so. Good pvp clases, X buildings and exp in sws. Yet they are not many thees days and that leads to that they not at Top also anymore.
Also I kinda would want to get mercenary thing back. Thing when you could join 1h till sw and fight in that. Cause now only TOP sw guilds can give free chars to other guys or from other servers to play to boost thier frontlines.
All discusions about ch.m gate guarding is only cause all wana finish things faster or easier and then wait rest of hour till all server finish sw to do some runs :D.
To summup. If guild wana hold gates let them. If you strong enough or skilled to break in vs many ch.ms and p.wl go for it. If not why bother just trap hard and P/R towers.
Ch/m gate holds not ruining sw. As i wrote to earlier some class fix would do way more then making tricky strats vs ch.m.
Curently I need to play specific class in sw just to counter wls. I cant play other combos cause those would have no chanse. And its sad :(.