About an hour or so ago, I was asked to do some scouting for you guys, spying on FC’s and GoM’s zergs. I agreed, and went off on my course. About half an hour later, I’m watching my allies die in a massacre right outside of the ogre camp by a massive FC zerg. I, fortunately, managed to escape away only to see pure chaos break out between FC and a smaller group of GoMs. Unsurprisingly, due to their massive forces (and the fact that this battle was occuring on their side of the map), FC won. This is where our little problem started to settle in.
As FC finished mopping up enemies outside of their tower, the went south to flip the ogre camp. I gave you all a good heads-up about their arrival, and I had hoped that, by the time FC had cleaved through the camp and swept up Umberglade Woods (since it was as good as theirs anyways), that we would have amassed a large enough force to counterattack at Durios. About three minutes after I issued my warning, and our pseudo-commander (didn’t have the blue chip over his head, but he was serving as command anyhow since nobody else was their) had repeated something along the lines of ten separate times that ‘we need to stack at Durios’, FC finally struck, hitting Durs hard. Fortunately, my warning had managed to save Durios and eradicate the FC zerg. Right?
The FC zerg had about 50 or so people in it. By the time they had gotten to Durs, with me shadowing them, we had something along the lines of 8 to 15 people.
Guys. Commmmeeee onnnnnn.
I know that we can all point our fingers at a lot of different things, but I think that some of the problems that we’re having, here on ET, include:
- Lack of cooperation. Guys, when somebody reports “30+ at QL, need backup ASAP” and a commander says “everybody to QL!”, this is not your queue to go and try to capture some obscure, unknown supply camp in the far north single handedly. I think that it would help a lot if we actually, y’know, got our forces to where they needed to be. I know that we could’ve saved ourselves from the attack by FC if some of y’all had cooperated. I know that we had the numbers on our map to do that, too.
- Lack of command. Personally, I blame it on a lot of you guys. Mostly because when you don’t cooperate (see above) then our command gets frustrated and leaves. Like it did today. Can’t say I blamed the commander for it, though.
- Dissension. I think that we all know the one troll in our chat in WvW that is ruining the game for us. Personally, I’m shocked that ANet hasn’t chosen to ban his access to chat by now. If ANet used the same policy for chat as they did for these forums, the troll would have been banned multiple times over by now.
My point is that we all need to start working as a team and pull our act together. Right now, it feels like a very large proportion of us are kittening around simply because we can.
Love,
Arctu
(edit: and gawd help me)