Guild Wars 2

About a week or two ago, my server did an all minion master zerg with Necros. It was pretty funny, and it steam rolled through a fully upgraded garrison with an enemy zerg defending.

I was thinking how bad kitten it would be to have a 30+ thief zerg that you couldn’t even see! Just random people appearing and disappearing all around you.

MIND

BLOWN!

Has anyone tried it before?

There is a common saying referred to with K-6 students… My guess is that it would be similar to ‘Trying to Herd Cats’. Did anyone else see that shiny warrior over there… Best of luck though.

Dagger storm with Signet of Malice x20 = dead enemy zerg.

I’d like to see an army of condi-spec D/D Venomshare Thieves, back-flipping for justice.

Interceptor.2653:

I’d like to see an army of condi-spec D/D Venomshare Thieves, back-flipping for justice.

Almost did that… was running havoc with my guild, we were all thieves and I was running venomshare.

It was pretty sweet.

Have said thief zerg pop thieve’s guild all at once. A 30 man thief zerg is suddenly a 90!

Thief zerg with SoM, Ambush Trap, Dagger Storm, Devourer Venom, Smoke Screen and venom share. My god it would be awesome!

Did a similar thing to a zerg with a five man group of thieves. We downed the entire zerg within seconds

That kind of stuff makes the game more fun.

Fade.7658:

Have said thief zerg pop thieve’s guild all at once. A 30 man thief zerg is suddenly a 90!

(T) randomdude1: there are only 25- 30 just capped spel. Heading mendons.
(T) random dude 2: ok we will head them off…. Oh god run!! Run for you lives, the whole server is here!! Hackers are breaking the map limits! Run, report! Run some more!

Wryscher.1432:

Fade.7658:

Have said thief zerg pop thieve’s guild all at once. A 30 man thief zerg is suddenly a 90!

(T) randomdude1: there are only 25- 30 just capped spel. Heading mendons.
(T) random dude 2: ok we will head them off…. Oh god run!! Run for you lives, the whole server is here!! Hackers are breaking the map limits! Run, report! Run some more!

That would actually be hilarious.

Probably can get like two set of 70 thieves attacking two tower at once.

It would be even more funny to stealth like 20 thieves when enemy zerg approach, and when thieves un-stealth, now there are 60.

It can be fun all you want, but once it would collide with any other zerg there would be carpet of dead thiefs.

Karolis.4261:

It can be fun all you want, but once it would collide with any other zerg there would be carpet of dead thiefs.

True thieves don’t charge head-on, they stealth, they hide.. and then they take you from behind.

Tyragon.2496:

Karolis.4261:

It can be fun all you want, but once it would collide with any other zerg there would be carpet of dead thiefs.

True thieves don’t charge head-on, they stealth, they hide.. and then they take you from behind.

Thieves wont survive enemys zerg splash damage. You can stealth all you want but u wont get nowere close to stacked up zerg.

But the other zerg wouldn’t know it was a thief-zerg and just assume it was some OP thief-hack- and thus would likely do nothing but waypoint to the forum ….

Karolis.4261:

Tyragon.2496:

Karolis.4261:

It can be fun all you want, but once it would collide with any other zerg there would be carpet of dead thiefs.

True thieves don’t charge head-on, they stealth, they hide.. and then they take you from behind.

Thieves wont survive enemys zerg splash damage. You can stealth all you want but u wont get nowere close to stacked up zerg.

Ever read discworld? The secret to not dying isn’t being tough, or fast, it’s simply not being where the other guy’s sword is :P

Jugglemonkey.8741:

Karolis.4261:

Tyragon.2496:

Karolis.4261:

It can be fun all you want, but once it would collide with any other zerg there would be carpet of dead thiefs.

True thieves don’t charge head-on, they stealth, they hide.. and then they take you from behind.

Thieves wont survive enemys zerg splash damage. You can stealth all you want but u wont get nowere close to stacked up zerg.

Ever read discworld? The secret to not dying isn’t being tough, or fast, it’s simply not being where the other guy’s sword is :P

Ofc, thats the way thiefs are forced to play. And there is the with it, it doesnt work with zergs vs zerg warfare in gw2. Normal zerg with guardians/warriors/eles/necros/mesmers would simply be immune to thiefs zerg in that case. When saying zerg i mean stacked up blob ofc – thiefs cant come close to that and live. If stacking up would be impossible ( cough*collision detection*cough ) there might be different situation then.

Who said a thief zerg would go against another zerg? As I said, they don’t go charging in, they take you from behind, one by one, when you’re not stacked, then retreat, and repeat.

Can’t chase what you can’t see!

There is guild in the Mesmer forum consists of players that frequent their forum, they call it OMFG – Official Mesmer Forum Guild – or something like that.

Talk about Clone Wars.

I doubt a zerg consists of Thieves can top that — but it would be entertaining to see.

See the picture below…

Tyragon.2496:

Who said a thief zerg would go against another zerg? As I said, they don’t go charging in, they take you from behind, one by one, when you’re not stacked, then retreat, and repeat.

Can’t chase what you can’t see!

OP said. Or why would a zerg go against anything but a zerg?

http://i.imgur.com/qonvcYw.jpg

Everyone Heartseeker spamming towards the enemy zerg. The horror!

Spicyhash.7605:

http://i.imgur.com/qonvcYw.jpg

Oh, so you went to the ninja parade too? I go every year to not see the ninjas!

We usually run 20+ thief nights about once a week. Works perfectly fine. You can wipe any zerg with any zerg if your pin/players play correctly. We also run full tank groups, full ranged groups, full necro groups, minion master zergs, all Asura map blobs (google black gate farms RATS for some lolz, that’s our troll all asura guild), and pretty much anything we can think of. We are going to run an Ele ball soon too. [SG] thief nights are my most favorite to command though.

As the biggest guild of thieves we have tried zerging several times, it does not work.
You can destroy random zergs quite easy, but any trained guild will easily beat you thanks to the combination of skills, boons and Ccs of different classes. Beat in terms of kill the half of the zerg, obviously nobody kills a whole thieves zerg.
Thieves are much more useful working in low numbers and groups than zerging.

Best,

Haltair, one of the Twelve Shadows

Works like a charm for us, once a week for 2 years now in T1. If you fight a tank blob on there terms you’ll most likely not win. You can’t play your thief zerg like a tank zerg…they are thieves. Nothing a tank blob can do to you open field. Only real threat they are is if they catch you in a choke of some sort, or your pin flubs up. It is definitely hard mode though.

Best,

Mance, one of more shadows

thief zergs work great. theres a few things each has to run to do so.

Sig of malic
smoke screen
daggerstorm
shadowstep
blinding powder

few traits but too long to get intohere. pretty self explanatory. plus crit = health steal food plus health steal runes or rock dog runes. valk gear. etc etc.

runs over anyone. mass blinds. no projectiles work. port with steal/SS so melee dont F you. lots of heals.

the MOST IMPORTANT TIP…. NEVER EVER stomp finish. let the AOES do the work.