Monday 15 December 2008

Here Comes The Zerg


"Mass tactics", "Safety in numbers" or "This is just how oRvR is, right?" These are just a few this it is called, whatever you call it it is the tactic of massing together an army of a warband or two worth of people and using it to roll around the oRvR countryside in game smashing everything in its path under its wheels. Drawing more and more to it mass like moths to a flame.

Why do people mass together like this? All rushing around from one point to another trying to waste as little time as possible anywhere? Is it to find the enemy and put them into the grinder at the from of this behemoth? No.

And you may have guessed by now, that I am not talking about those organised zergs that do what a single overlord and master tells them. Instead I'm talking about the type of zerg that gives everyone their own ability to freely come and go and do as they please as long as they don't piss off any of their teammates too much.

So what are the attractions of the zerg? Well for one thing it means your very, very unlikely to get ganked. Safety in numbers. Secondly and undeniably, running blindly from Battle Objective to Battle Objective to Keep is a good way of getting Renown Rank and also the new oRvR influence. Any order you get will get to will be mown down and pushing forth the enemy infront of you, hacking at their knees and hearing the lamentations of their women without casualty one to yourself is fun. For a while.

After that, well it becomes more of a boost, you remember when you wanted to hit level 18 quickly so you got a level God-only-knows-what to come and boost you through and all the mobs were 7 levels ahead of you you knew if you hit one you would die? So you just followed this guy around mindlessly. Its a bit like that, I spent an hour at one point never leaving my horse.

Even the guys that are only doing it for loot are getting stiffed, apparently due to whatever system keeps are using the same people keep getting the gold bags, one guy I know has 6 in his inventory cause he has all he wants from them and he is hoping the contents might change at a later date. Someone else has the complaint that the WB leaders are lazy and they are missing out on loot due to everyone rolling need on items they want but can't use. Warband leaders won't kick them or enable Need on Use so the nice blue shoulder piece that is 2 times better for your Marauder? That just went to the shaman over there.

The thing is, that it isn't like there is a choice. You either zerg or your out of oRvR. Small groups, six to twelve man stuff have done a little here and there before suddenly the zerg shows up, takes over the keep you've been working the last ten minutes and claims all the loot bags for themselves.

If they aren't currently at a point and a small group is skirmishing further up the road at a point that is in the zergs crosshairs but they haven't gotten to yet cause they are still taking the keep down the road for example you will be called on it. People in the zerg feel that any BO out there belongs to THEM and only THEM, if you take what is there's then you are a thief and deserve to be blacklisted. It happens folks, if you aren't one of them then you are preventing them getting what they want.

So basically, the zerg is a faceless mass, that doesn't want anyone else interfering with THEIR game, are probably not having too much fun in their full WBs and bitch at anyone that tries to.

I sometimes wonder if the only people that get anything out of it are the people in /2 posting sarcastic remarks at the sheer idiocy of it all.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

spell check for the win.....

Skips said...

Hey there was only 3, I've seen worse in newspapers. Tahnks fro teh haeds pu tohugh