Guild Wars 2

From what i have noticed on the forums is people complaining about getting “zerged” in WvW battles and it is starting to confuse me as to what a zerg is. I had always thought a zerg was an uncoordinated blob of players that are mindlessly roaming the map, but people seem to throw the word around like its nothing.

Serebus.7314:

From what i have noticed on the forums is people complaining about getting “zerged” in WvW battles and it is starting to confuse me as to what a zerg is. I had always thought a zerg was an uncoordinated blob of players that are mindlessly roaming the map, but people seem to throw the word around like its nothing.

It means “an opposing team that defeated me in combat” in the same sense that troll has now come to mean “someone who disagrees with my point of view.”

Mindless charging from area to area relying SOLELY on numbers and not any tactical decision (or at least it was what it meant in the old days).

A zerg is an unorganized mass of players who relies on nothing besides their numbers to achieve an objective.

Very little strategizing, teamwork, or planning happens in them. They typically tunnel vision an objective and either it dies or they do.