Guild Wars 2

I dislike how the wildlife always disrupt PvP. I know it’s not that big of a deal but animals serve no purpose in WvW, why are they there other than to stack sigils, which can be done on enemy players…

I’ve used them for cover. I’ve used them as preemptive insurance to get myself up from downed. I’ve used them with Steal for the shadowstep to get me out of trouble. I get loot off them. Critters also give me Fleet Shadow when I C&D them. They don’t disrupt me at all, being just another tool to use if you know how.

It would be nice if players couldn’t rally from hitting the PvE mobs anyway. They do make the landscape more interesting, and combat sometimes “gah! CC’d by a moose!”, but it’s too easy to use them as cheap rallying posts. Gankers (I mean, uh, roamers, yeah, that’s the word) tend to hang around groups of them for this very reason.

Edit: hahahaha, the post above mine was written while I was typing, and illustrates my point perfectly. Well played, sir.

Use them to your advantage. I love using the krait in underwater fights to help me kill my enemies or help me rally. “Can’t you just fight them 1v1?” you might ask – Sure, but if they’ve brought backup, then I’m probably screwed. Plus, being a healing Ele, I can do damage…but it tends to take a while to kill anyone. Usually just ends up in a stalemate where one of us leaves, lol.

Thrashbarg.9820:

Gankers (I mean, uh, roamers, yeah, that’s the word)

Are you against roamers/gankers? Your comment is puzzling.

Xirin.8593:

Thrashbarg.9820:

Gankers (I mean, uh, roamers, yeah, that’s the word)

Are you against roamers/gankers? Your comment is puzzling.

Nope, sometimes I am one. I’m just a snide kitten sometimes. ;p

(I am against nearly unlimited free rallies when I screw up though, just feels like cheating.)

I like the wildlife. They give another tactical opportunity for players.

For example, when the Wintersday event was going on, and there were those exploding present boxes with enemies inside of them everywhere (including WvW), I would use those boxes to disrupt enemy NPCs, and take them out while staying away from the present box NPCs all the while. By the time all of the present box NPCs were dead, due to my efforts and theirs, there would only be (maybe) a single guard left and the Supervisor at camps. I did this multiple times at camps (there were a few camps that had present boxes that spawned practically within the dead center of them). Made capping them with small numbers a heck of a lot easier.

I use them to keep my adrenaline up for blast finishers.

I use them all the time so I can port around the map using Judge’s Intervention and Flashing Blade on my Guardian. Like most others have said they’re there to present opportunities to either fake out, capitalize on, or disrupt your enemies. If anything I wish NPCs would harass camps more often. Skritt and Centaur camps could raid supply camps for example and steal some supply from the depot. Could make it an event for the defenders, and for anyone attacking it’d be a good opportunity to strike while the guards are fighting the other NPCs.