Guild Wars 2

this is just a curiosity as I was in edge of mists and was curious how most players in WvW feel about this

I and about 4 others were at the back of the zerg heading up the stairs to a capture point .. about 3 to 4 NPCs were dropping AEs in the area THEN an enemy thief jumps in and manages to kill us .. NOW we were at the back BECAUSE we were dealing with the guards that would have been on the rams taking down the walls

when I mentioned that there was 1 enemy behind them I was told “you stopped the zerg to warn us about one player .. if you fall behind it is your fault”

we were literally the equivalent to 5 feet behind the mobs of players BUT it was not right that they stop and help a downed player TILL after the capture ..

IS this the common WvW belief??

1. LOL at 5 of you losing to a single Thief
2. It’s a zerg – it doesn’t care about 1 or 2 players, they’re zerging in order to farm rewards
3. This is PvP. No one cares about WvW here

hackks.3687:

1. LOL at 5 of you losing to a single Thief
2. It’s a zerg – it doesn’t care about 1 or 2 players, they’re zerging in order to farm rewards
3. This is PvP. No one cares about WvW here

so sorry I posted in the wrong forum .. gawd terrible ..

ty though for showing me the attitude for PvP and WvW really is this bad and non team work ..

shaman.1938:

hackks.3687:

1. LOL at 5 of you losing to a single Thief
2. It’s a zerg – it doesn’t care about 1 or 2 players, they’re zerging in order to farm rewards
3. This is PvP. No one cares about WvW here

so sorry I posted in the wrong forum .. gawd terrible ..

ty though for showing me the attitude for PvP and WvW really is this bad and non team work ..

No, no. It just seems like you have the wrong perspective. In PvP, you sometimes abandon your team on mid to steal far. Same thing: The zerg wasn’t going to slow itself down just ‘cause they lost a few. That’s just an unreasonable expectation.

Dondagora.9645:

shaman.1938:

hackks.3687:

1. LOL at 5 of you losing to a single Thief
2. It’s a zerg – it doesn’t care about 1 or 2 players, they’re zerging in order to farm rewards
3. This is PvP. No one cares about WvW here

so sorry I posted in the wrong forum .. gawd terrible ..

ty though for showing me the attitude for PvP and WvW really is this bad and non team work ..

No, no. It just seems like you have the wrong perspective. In PvP, you sometimes abandon your team on mid to steal far. Same thing: The zerg wasn’t going to slow itself down just ‘cause they lost a few. That’s just an unreasonable expectation.

the time to stop and revive the players at the end is not even going to barely slow it down but meh ..

it was more the attitude that I wasn’t even supposed to bother to mention that they were being followed and targeted as they went along .. he I get it .. don’t bother say anything and just pretend every other character is an npc since we aren’t supposed to say anything unless the few elite want to say something ..

if this game has a sub i would be off to the unsub option as the attitude seems to have decreased badly in just the last few weeks ..

this isn’t pointed at the last post BTW at least you didn’t feel the need to be rude about it ..

WE weren’t BTW "separated from the zerg .. and it wasn’t just 1 thief but the AE from about 3 or 4 NPCs that the zerg agroed whille breaking the wall ..

I always thought it was supposed to be a team effort and we were supposed ot work together .. obvously I was wrong but ty for all the answers since it means IF i am in WvW in some distant time I will play accordingly

It’s pretty simple, really. Edge of the Mists isn’t really WvW. The EotM zerg is a champ train and people are using it to farm for loot and levels (and WvW ranks that most of them likely won’t actually use) from NPCs. Most of the folks you run into in EotM are gonna be tunnel-visioned by getting to the next tower to get more champ bags.

That’s why EotM zergs can get wiped by a single Spectral Wall. Or one-pushed by basically anyone with a headset. Or why twenty people will go down in seconds charging at an RI’d Basilisk.