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Tesla Monkor
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This thread is partially a complaint to noone specifically, just addressing a general problem that DAOC is starting to exhibit. I can only speak for the RvR situation on Prydwen, as I have no alts on Excalibur that RvR (yet).
Currently, there are several ways in which you can participate in RvR.
1. You're part of a carefully balanced group that knows exactly what they're doing. (The Elitists)
2. You're a stealther, either alone or grouped. (The Sneakies)
3. You run solo (The Brave Ones)
4. You join random groups at portal keeps and venture into the frontiers. (The Cows)
In my opinion, only 3 and 4 should be valid RVR tactics. The situation as it is on Prydwen right now make both of them impossible. Number 3 is obvious, and would be hard to pull off on any server, regardless of it's RvR-health, but 4 should always be available and currently is less viable than even option 3.
The thing most annoying is 1. Not because they're good at it - they're too good at it, if anything. Every realm has them, and most people know when to run like girls if a particular colour cloak is running in your direction.
These people have spend considerable time in perfecting their groups into effective killing machines. This is neither good, nor bad in itself, but it's having a rather nasty side-effect.. It's destroying the casual RvR for everyone else. At any given time you see several of these so called 'Gank groups' running about, and noone likes to gather up groups, wander down the portal hill and get pounded into a red smear.
Personally, I hate it. Zergs are good. Zergs are fun. Everyone can do something in a zerg without getting shoved under the grass in 2-3seconds flat. Gankgroups are NOT what DAOC was made for, and they're causing more damage than most people realise - On top of which some of them are sickeningly arrogant when addressing people wanting to run alongside with them in smaller groups - safety in numbers, after all. If I could, I'd wish people had never invented the optimised group idea. :/
Just a few thoughts.
Currently, there are several ways in which you can participate in RvR.
1. You're part of a carefully balanced group that knows exactly what they're doing. (The Elitists)
2. You're a stealther, either alone or grouped. (The Sneakies)
3. You run solo (The Brave Ones)
4. You join random groups at portal keeps and venture into the frontiers. (The Cows)
In my opinion, only 3 and 4 should be valid RVR tactics. The situation as it is on Prydwen right now make both of them impossible. Number 3 is obvious, and would be hard to pull off on any server, regardless of it's RvR-health, but 4 should always be available and currently is less viable than even option 3.
The thing most annoying is 1. Not because they're good at it - they're too good at it, if anything. Every realm has them, and most people know when to run like girls if a particular colour cloak is running in your direction.
These people have spend considerable time in perfecting their groups into effective killing machines. This is neither good, nor bad in itself, but it's having a rather nasty side-effect.. It's destroying the casual RvR for everyone else. At any given time you see several of these so called 'Gank groups' running about, and noone likes to gather up groups, wander down the portal hill and get pounded into a red smear.
Personally, I hate it. Zergs are good. Zergs are fun. Everyone can do something in a zerg without getting shoved under the grass in 2-3seconds flat. Gankgroups are NOT what DAOC was made for, and they're causing more damage than most people realise - On top of which some of them are sickeningly arrogant when addressing people wanting to run alongside with them in smaller groups - safety in numbers, after all. If I could, I'd wish people had never invented the optimised group idea. :/
Just a few thoughts.