The point of roaming isn’t to just wander around and look for single enemies to kill – that doesn’t really benefit your server.
When you roam, you want to cap camps (any good roamer should be able to solo a non-upgraded camp), kill yaks and sentries, report on enemy zerg movements, and watch for swords on friendly nearby towers so you can run in to man siege and call for backup if needed.
During the course of all of that, you’ll often run into enemy players doing the same thing, that’s when you fight them.
The point of roaming isn’t to just wander around and look for single enemies to kill – that doesn’t really benefit your server.
When you roam, you want to cap camps (any good roamer should be able to solo a non-upgraded camp), kill yaks and sentries, report on enemy zerg movements, and watch for swords on friendly nearby towers so you can run in to man siege and call for backup if needed.
During the course of all of that, you’ll often run into enemy players doing the same thing, that’s when you fight them.
That’s not necessarily true… plenty of people simply roam for pvp without touching any camps or “helping” the server out. What you’re defining is havoc-ing I think?
Well, the roamers i know (including myself) are primarily looking for outnumbered fights and zerglings to troll. We are dying a lot so it’s always good to being outnumbered.
Camps are capped and defended whenever possible but the main point is looking for good fights.
Tbh I dont think “good fights” mean dying alot while looking for outnumbered fights
I rather prefer fighting equally skilled opponents.
In terms of roaming… sword/torch/blink/decoy/mass invis PU build. Its the only real way. You basicly become a thief, ie immortal when roaming. You can troll 5 people for an extended period of time and even if you cant defeat them, you can disengage at will. You have to work really hard to die.
Its incredibly cheesy, but most roamers you meet will use their cheesy builds too
Either way you know you did good if a perma-stealth thief join your party and complain about OP PU mesmers.
Personally I slap mantra heal + restorative mantras + menders purity + traited staff on my PU build (along with traveller runes). Conditions glide off me, I am constantly running at +25% speed and jumping around like an invisible mofo in combat.
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