Guild Wars 2

So, I had an idea for an anti-zerg feature. It is not thought through really. But I thought to shout it out to you guys to see what you think.

I thought of a condtion, that can be applied to players via a trap or smth. It has several properties:

• slows your movement by 33% and prevents speed bosts from working
• causes you to be in combat (no waypoint use possible)
• can not be affected by cleansing or transfer skills
• the condition will be applied to allied players, if an effected character moves
• wears eventually out after after the effected character stoped moving for some time and the condition has not been reapplied
• after the condition has been removed, the player will be granted an imunity to that condition for a certain ammount of time
• the condition is removed on downed, the imunity effect will still be granted, if removed that way

This condition should especially effect larger groups, cuz players would spread it onto each other. The immunity after remove effect should prevent it from being used constantly on a group and therefor make it unable to do anything. Also the trap should be relativly expensive.

This trap could be used for 2 purposes. Gang a Zerg and simply kill it by preventing the players to move or, I believe that would be more efficient, slow a Zerg considerably down. It would hopefully allow for more tactical gameplay and for the chance to allow a server to switch to several smaller Zergs making tactical assaults and strategic planing more a part of WvW.

No. Instead of punishing zergs, why don’t you ask for small groups to get buffed?

Zerg slowing trap already exists… They are called Sentries

Seigfried.5938:

No. Instead of punishing zergs, why don’t you ask for small groups to get buffed?

Agree rather have some zerg bursting, or zerg protection abilities for squads/commanders that only works when there are < 30 allies and more 30 enemies close.

Or even better a reward reduction the more people you have. Since most of the zergers are just farmers and dont care about fights, points or whatever.

Roll ranger.

Frost Trap, Spike Trap, or just stand there (rangers = sentry effect)

Remove speed boosts and 10% or no reduction is a sweeter spot. You don’t want to make the traps ubiquitous.
It is ridiculous how easy it is as a zerg to maintain perma-swiftness.

Lurch.9517:

Zerg slowing trap already exists… They are called Sentries

They’re more like filters to weed out randoms.

Sentries? The ones that die in like 2 seconds and which can’t even kill a doly?

A speed debuff that increases in intensity depending on how many players are in your aoe, plus a similar debuff in supply capacity. Both have been suggested many times before.

Seigfried.5938:

No. Instead of punishing zergs, why don’t you ask for small groups to get buffed?

How about both, that’s the solution really.

As to the OP I like the idea and would support it.

It’s called THIS:

Thief Dagger Storm

I do it all the time to zergs to slow them down, works great. Just enjooy Dagger Storm before it’s gone is all I can say.

Beat you to it by…. almost 3 months?
:P
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Real-tools-for-the-WvW-player/first#post2179363

This would have tremendous implications for the dying GvG community.

itd only be anti zerg if its base duration multiplied by the number of targets. That sid it generates dumb gameplay. Instead of letting people get to thepvp fighting, people are now tangled up by a special condition. Also the commander wil always be hit. And people trickling on to the fight will only be faced with an opposing enemy zerg.

Dumb (said in the nicest way possible)

Fuzzion.2504:

This would have tremendous implications for the dying GvG community.

Why would you say it is a ‘dying’ community??