BEWARE TRAVELERS OF CYRODIIL!! GANKING SQUADS ARE ABOUT!

Bushrat · November 2014

Now with the FC going away..... us gankers will now have many many many more prey to hunt. THANK YOU ZENIMAX!!!

Sleep · November 2014

How is PvP like today? What do people in Cyrodill say about Forward Camps? My game is still patching.

Palidon · November 2014

Bushrat wrote: »

Now with the FC going away..... us gankers will now have many many many more prey to hunt. THANK YOU ZENIMAX!!!

Ya I am thinking of forming a Gank Squad myself. Find a nice ambush location and just wait for unsuspecting players. So much fun. The ole take a keep or resource can get quite boring.

Cody · November 2014

if only block and casting were removed... then I would join the fun:D

Lord_Draevan · November 2014

Played on Thornblade NA last night, and it was awesome without FCs. Didn't run accross a single impulse zerg, everyone's actually planning and thinking... well, mostly, some still charge in like morons but die in a few seconds. People were waiting at keeps for small groups of 4-5 before moving back to the keep under siege, and people were rezzing a lot more, obviously.

Pure melee builds are going to have a much tougher time than before in sieges, both attackers and defenders. Nearly everyone was fighting ranged, anyone who actually tried melee was dead nearly instantly. Only when the fighting gets to the inner keep is melee viable. For now, it's mostly "pew-pew fights", as it was said in zone.

RinaldoGandolphi · November 2014

Thornblade last night was different for me....Im not sure if it was a good thing or a bad thing, but I changed tactics going in. Action was much slower, though no lag was nice.

I have merely adjusted tactics and begun to employ Bolt Escape (a skill i never used until last night), I still racked up my kills, they came in bursts with periods of downtime, but they came nonetheless. I just play more defensivly now.

I never knew BE was so good for getting away from gankers LOL. I died 1 time in 3 hours racking up 81 kills and 72 killing blows..that 1 death was before i put BE on my bar, after putting BE on my bar, i never died again...i even escaped bad situations I didn't even think was possible to escape from LOL! Im sure those 10 gank groups i got away from were pretty angry they couldn't kill me LOL!

I do agree melee builds got smashed hard with these changes...they already had a short life expectancy, now they have that and no forward camps....oh boy i feel bad for them.

Mojomonkeyman · November 2014

Only terrible players call themselves "gank squads", it implies you wait in stealth for unsuspecting victims.

Good players usually look for good (challenging) fights, which are not about to happen too often if you hide all the time.

Just call it smallscale, roaming or whatever.

Xexpo · November 2014

Lord_Draevan wrote: »

Played on Thornblade NA last night, and it was awesome without FCs.... now, it's mostly "pew-pew fights"

:facepalm:

pmn100b16_ESO · November 2014

Mojomonkeyman wrote: »

Only terrible players call themselves "gank squads", it implies you wait in stealth for unsuspecting victims.

Good players usually look for good (challenging) fights, which are not about to happen too often if you hide all the time.

Just call it smallscale, roaming or whatever.

Yeah agree, and the worst thing you can do is be a part of a 'gank squad' larger than 2. It just screams "I'm crap at this game".

I often jump around out of stealth in the open in the hope someone will join me in a good fight, but of course I just get ganked all the time.

Lord_Draevan · November 2014

kaer426 wrote: »

Lord_Draevan wrote: »

Played on Thornblade NA last night, and it was awesome without FCs.... now, it's mostly "pew-pew fights"

:facepalm:

No impulse zergs = awesome in my book. The pew-pew fights will die down soon enough as people get used to no FCs.

Dreyloch · November 2014

/Agree with those who think gankers are turds that can't win a fair straight up fight one on one. I might still die that way, but I'm sure as HELL going to give you a battle before I die. Come at me bro!

Observant · November 2014

pmn100b16_ESO wrote: »

Mojomonkeyman wrote: »

Only terrible players call themselves "gank squads", it implies you wait in stealth for unsuspecting victims.

Yeah agree, and the worst thing you can do is be a part of a 'gank squad' larger than 2. It just screams "I'm crap at this game".

I'm one of those terrible, crap gankers. Lets duel so you can show me how a real player does it?

Message me in-game @Observant and let's set something up. You've even got your choice of fighting a Nightblade or a Templar.

ETA: Gank squads usually consist of the most organized and strategically aware players I know. I even had a guild in beta called the NakedGankSquad, and we got lots of attention from enemy players saying just the opposite of the fices your spewing around this thread.

Lava_Croft · November 2014

Mojomonkeyman wrote: »

Only terrible players call themselves "gank squads", it implies you wait in stealth for unsuspecting victims.

Good players usually look for good (challenging) fights, which are not about to happen too often if you hide all the time.

Just call it smallscale, roaming or whatever.

And since when do you have the monopoly on what constitutes a 'good' or 'bad' player? An 'unsuspecting victim' in Cyrodiil is simply someone who doesn't understand how PvP works in ESO. There is no safety in Cyrodiil.

Come back down to earth, Major Tom.

Bushrat · November 2014

Mojomonkeyman wrote: »

Only terrible players call themselves "gank squads", it implies you wait in stealth for unsuspecting victims.

Good players usually look for good (challenging) fights, which are not about to happen too often if you hide all the time.

Just call it smallscale, roaming or whatever.

LOLZ, seriously? come on bro, there are so many ways to play this game and have fun... just because you don't like what we gankers do or how we play you think you are a better player than me? That's quite arrogant of you imo. Also I think it demonstrated superior intelligence to use every advantage one has to win a fight... SUCH AS STEALTH FOR A NIGHT BLADE... duuuhhh.

FluffiestOne · November 2014

Fixate is rerolling nightblade; it's been a good past 7 months, dragonknight.

Rylana · November 2014

Mojomonkeyman wrote: »

Only terrible players call themselves "gank squads", it implies you wait in stealth for unsuspecting victims.

Good players usually look for good (challenging) fights, which are not about to happen too often if you hide all the time.

Just call it smallscale, roaming or whatever.

As the leader of a 4-10 man gank group designed around class synergy, situational awareness, not dying, and murdering hundreds of blues and reds a night with KD ratios over 20:1, while usually working against superior numbers, I say sir that you dont know what good is.

FluffiestOne wrote: »

Fixate is rerolling nightblade; it's been a good past 7 months, dragonknight.

Dear Fluffy - Bring it, my DK/Templar/and Nightblade await your corpse at my feet.

nikolaj.lemcheb16_ESO · November 2014

Bushrat wrote: »

Now with the FC going away..... us gankers will now have many many many more prey to hunt. THANK YOU ZENIMAX!!!

And gank squads get counter attacked by enemy squads. Loads more small scale fights allover.

I love this change, it makes death or victory mean something and it spreads out people into a lot of smaller fights.

Of course it means that an organized zerg has to be faced by an enemy organized zerg now, people can no longer randomly move to the fight.

nikolaj.lemcheb16_ESO · November 2014

Mojomonkeyman wrote: »

Good players usually look for good (challenging) fights, which are not about to happen too often if you hide all the time.

Whatever rocks your boat. IMO the good player is the one that is able to take out enemies and get out alive using whatever tools or organization available to him.

The great player is the one that use those skills to help his alliance win battles.

Personal Epen is useless, silly and irrelevant.

FluffiestOne · November 2014

nikolaj.lemcheb16_ESO wrote: »

Personal Epen is useless, silly and irrelevant.

You must be mistaken.

Rylana wrote: »

Dear Fluffy - Bring it, my DK/Templar/and Nightblade await your corpse at my feet.

I am the Lord Fixate, I do not die. Peasant.

michaelb14a_ESO2 · November 2014

FluffiestOne wrote: »

Fixate is rerolling nightblade; it's been a good past 7 months, dragonknight.

Lord "FOTM" is more like it.

Vilestride · November 2014

This is definitely going to be one of the best things about the camp removal, it will actually play a huge roll in taking and defending keeps to have group partol routes to and from them now. I prefer the term ambush or patrol to 'gank' I feel like the difference here is that one would be *** around and the other strategically supporting your alliance :P

FluffiestOne · November 2014

michaelb14a_ESO2 wrote: »

FluffiestOne wrote: »

Fixate is rerolling nightblade; it's been a good past 7 months, dragonknight.

Lord "FOTM" is more like it.

I am lord of the "FOTM"'s so that is acceptable.

Nidwin · November 2014

Wondering what you're going to gank when there's nobody left to gank.

But I've to admit that "ganking", especially in groups shows how skilled you have to be. Very skilled because your healers, whatever could be called tanks , mdps, rpds, grandma and grandpa can all stealth too. One happy stealthing family, isn't it.

Rylana · November 2014

Nidwin wrote: »

Wondering what you're going to gank when there's nobody left to gank.

But I've to admit that "ganking", especially in groups shows how skilled you have to be. Very skilled because your healers, whatever could be called tanks , mdps, rpds, grandma and grandpa can all stealth too. One happy stealthing family, isn't it.

And im sure you run around the map unstealthed all day having loads of success because youre such a superior player to the rest of us right?

Nidwin · November 2014

Rylana wrote: »

Nidwin wrote: »

Wondering what you're going to gank when there's nobody left to gank.

But I've to admit that "ganking", especially in groups shows how skilled you have to be. Very skilled because your healers, whatever could be called tanks , mdps, rpds, grandma and grandpa can all stealth too. One happy stealthing family, isn't it.

And im sure you run around the map unstealthed all day having loads of success because youre such a superior player to the rest of us right?

Nope.
My sub runs out today, didn't even bother with the patch and will download and reinstall DaoC before the week-end
In Daoc we don't ride horses in NF and healers, tanks, mdps and range dps don't stealth.
/stick/follow ftw

I enjoyed it while it lasted. The only fun I had in Cyrodill were those long and very excentric, weird, chaotic fights because of the FC's. ZoS made it's choice, not mine, nevermind.
It's only a game and there are still DaoC out there for my regular RvR Fix.

See you in CU in a year and a half or two, Rylana. Take care and enjoy the ride, pity it won't be mine too.

Bushrat · November 2014

Rylana wrote: »

Mojomonkeyman wrote: »

Only terrible players call themselves "gank squads", it implies you wait in stealth for unsuspecting victims.

Good players usually look for good (challenging) fights, which are not about to happen too often if you hide all the time.

Just call it smallscale, roaming or whatever.

As the leader of a 4-10 man gank group designed around class synergy, situational awareness, not dying, and murdering hundreds of blues and reds a night with KD ratios over 20:1, while usually working against superior numbers, I say sir that you dont know what good is.

FluffiestOne wrote: »

Fixate is rerolling nightblade; it's been a good past 7 months, dragonknight.

Dear Fluffy - Bring it, my DK/Templar/and Nightblade await your corpse at my feet.

Sounds like you are doping the same thins we do on the EU server. I run a mixed unit with Templars, DK's, Sorcs, and YES NB players. I have to say it is challenging and very fun to take on groups that are full of good players and often larger than my little squad. We often go deep into enemy territory and take resources and cut transit lines at key times in the battle, ninja strike keeps and so forth.... this all contributes to the victory of our Alliance. And ofc its all coordinated with large guilds and other AD groups for maximum effectiveness.

AND.. when its not at key times we just have fun killing enemies who are careless about how they move around the map.

Rylana · November 2014

Bushrat wrote: »

Rylana wrote: »

Mojomonkeyman wrote: »

Only terrible players call themselves "gank squads", it implies you wait in stealth for unsuspecting victims.

Good players usually look for good (challenging) fights, which are not about to happen too often if you hide all the time.

Just call it smallscale, roaming or whatever.

As the leader of a 4-10 man gank group designed around class synergy, situational awareness, not dying, and murdering hundreds of blues and reds a night with KD ratios over 20:1, while usually working against superior numbers, I say sir that you dont know what good is.

FluffiestOne wrote: »

Fixate is rerolling nightblade; it's been a good past 7 months, dragonknight.

Dear Fluffy - Bring it, my DK/Templar/and Nightblade await your corpse at my feet.

Sounds like you are doping the same thins we do on the EU server. I run a mixed unit with Templars, DK's, Sorcs, and YES NB players. I have to say it is challenging and very fun to take on groups that are full of good players and often larger than my little squad. We often go deep into enemy territory and take resources and cut transit lines at key times in the battle, ninja strike keeps and so forth.... this all contributes to the victory of our Alliance. And ofc its all coordinated with large guilds and other AD groups for maximum effectiveness.

AND.. when its not at key times we just have fun killing enemies who are careless about how they move around the map.

Thats pretty much Aldmeri Vice in a nutshell. Most of us play multiple classes, so the mix is always different, but we rarely ever run without causing a serious disturbance wherever we go. Some days theres just two or three of us and we stick to pure ganking or resource capping, some days we have more and try to prep or even take keeps (taking Aleswell with six people during prime time was a riot).

Unfortunately half of our roster has quit the game since launch (typical story so i hear), so our influence has waned from what we had going back on NA Dawnbreaker second cycle, but we can still make punches here and there.

Currently we are invading Chillrend (DC buff server) on a semi-daily basis as well as supporting our allied guild TKO on the main PvP campaign Thornblade.

Funny thing.. you mention EU server, nearly all of our members are from Germany/UK/Portugal besides me and like two other guys. If it wasnt for the fact the EU server was in the states at launch, theres a really good chance we would have been on the EU server.

Nijjion · November 2014

How RvR is meant to be played! OH YEAH!

Still long way to go but AoE caps removed will make it closer to feeling like good old DAOC!

Muizer · November 2014

Gankers can be morons though. I mean, I recall on the AD buff server Haderus EU, you'd occasionally get groups of AD just sitting outside (and sometimes inside) Gartok gate to pick off lone EP players coming through. How pathetic is that!

Cody · November 2014

Dreyloch wrote: »

/Agree with those who think gankers are turds that can't win a fair straight up fight one on one. I might still die that way, but I'm sure as HELL going to give you a battle before I die. Come at me bro!

mock us all you want:)

when I actually stay and fight instead of running... and end up kicking your a**, you will learn to respect us gankers:)

oh wait... block and cast is not removed yet.....
crap:D