Sandman929 wrote: »Go about your business and gank them despite the hate. Some people would hate you no matter how you killed them.
Ganking is hated becuase the general goal of ganking is to kill your enemy without giving a chance to fight back.
If people dont have a chance to fight back they feel powerless, get frustrated (especially after geting ganked repeatedly) and ultimately become angry.
This gets amplified by the fact gankers often have even less "skill" at open combat than the average player, since they stack the odds so much in their favor through the alpha strike so they get very little actual PvP experience. This is however subjective opinion from me spanking gankers.
And unlike in a moba game or other genres a ganker/ assasin does not aim to kill a high threat target to make it easier for his team, but instead only kills for personal gain (or that of the 2-24 man gank squad preying on single targets). On top of that gankers often seem to look for the weak and unexperienced when choosing their targets, just to guarantee they actually get something.
Rohamad_Ali wrote: »I do not hate gankers . I laugh and respawn .
So true. And when I run across someone that I truly just can't gank with my opener I bail while being thoroughly impressed (unless it was due to shuffle, then it's more )...Because many people prefer not to look in the mirror when they're doing something wrong. And if someone is constantly getting ganked, they're doing something wrong.
This one has been ganked.Lucius_Aelius wrote: »It's a legitimate strategy in warfare so there's nothing wrong with it per se, it's just the most cowardly way to fight even though it's effective, and some people get inflated egos and think they're hot stuff for getting kills against people that don't stand a chance. In this game the burst is so strong that most people simply cannot survive the opening salvo, especially since on horseback if you get knocked off you can't break free of the animation and you're usually dead before you can stand even on tankier builds like mine.
I think the animation of being knocked off your horse needs to be able to be broken free of like any stun, and gankers need to remember they're nothing special for fighting in the least challenging way possible (at least if they want any respect), but ganking is and will remain a legitimate and effective strategy and there's nothing inherently wrong with doing it, mainly it's just obnoxious to be on the receiving end and (especially when being ganked by multiple people at once) not standing a chance or even having the opportunity to fight back.
The reasons it's annoying are also the reasons why it works though, so it is what it is, Guerilla warfare always sucks whenever you're not the guerilla fighter (and sometimes even when you are, it's not always fun to be outmatched and not be able to do anything besides gank and hope your enemy dies before they have a chance to fight back, otherwise it can end very badly for the ganker).
Stoopid_Nwah wrote: »This one has been ganked.Lucius_Aelius wrote: »It's a legitimate strategy in warfare so there's nothing wrong with it per se, it's just the most cowardly way to fight even though it's effective, and some people get inflated egos and think they're hot stuff for getting kills against people that don't stand a chance. In this game the burst is so strong that most people simply cannot survive the opening salvo, especially since on horseback if you get knocked off you can't break free of the animation and you're usually dead before you can stand even on tankier builds like mine.
I think the animation of being knocked off your horse needs to be able to be broken free of like any stun, and gankers need to remember they're nothing special for fighting in the least challenging way possible (at least if they want any respect), but ganking is and will remain a legitimate and effective strategy and there's nothing inherently wrong with doing it, mainly it's just obnoxious to be on the receiving end and (especially when being ganked by multiple people at once) not standing a chance or even having the opportunity to fight back.
The reasons it's annoying are also the reasons why it works though, so it is what it is, Guerilla warfare always sucks whenever you're not the guerilla fighter (and sometimes even when you are, it's not always fun to be outmatched and not be able to do anything besides gank and hope your enemy dies before they have a chance to fight back, otherwise it can end very badly for the ganker).
Lol but on a serious note, what isn't considered cowardly in this game? Sorcs that streak away and minecamp? Templars that stand at the back of a zerg beaming anything they see? The Templars and dks that rely on malubeth being broken? The stam builds dodge rolling like monkeys with shuffle up so they seemingly never get hit?
I never understood the hate tells of "yeah well you're just a stupid coward using invisibility". Pretty sure people just have big egos, and when a decent ganker comes their way and melts them they feel some sort of injustice has been done to them lol.
The number of times you used cowardly in that paragraph kinda just makes me hope you're Xbox NA-DC or AD.Lucius_Aelius wrote: »Running away and/or hiding is by definition cowardly, but it's also legitimate strategy in warfare, living to fight another day and whatnot. There have been lots of people too brave to run away and/or hide in real life, and it got them killed so there's only so much good you can say about being brave in warfare, sometimes you just need to be a coward to win. People like fair games though and not being able to fight back feels cheap even when it's good strategy, and especially when gankers have big egos just for being good at cowardly tactics then it's easy to understand why they're looked down upon by other players who don't gank much or at all themselves.
Hahaha if they were trying to gank without utilizing cloak and/or purge they deserved that beam .I like it when somebody tries to gank you, and they fail, and then try to run away and you RD them to the ground, and then they whisper you to tell you to shove your jesus beam up your arse