Because you PvP to win, not to just show up. How can you expect this NOT to happen?

If you are looking for a "fair" fight - you need to duel. If you are looking for combat, you will do whatever it takes to be the last man standing. They designed BGs to accommodate an even number 4x4, but Cyrodil is outright war.



There are no participation ribbons for showing up to a battle.

chris211 wrote: »

what makes 20 zerglings chase down one guy endlessly? what goes through their mind when they are chasing down one person like that I don't understand?

KILL ALL Spare NONE

What would be the other option for them chasing endlessly? All 20 "zerglings" turn their backs for you, do nothing and give a fair chance for you to 1vx all of them easily perhaps. It feels like many just want somekind of immunity in pvp area when soloing, when you solo it's just a matter of time when you bump into a large group and most likely they will attack you, because it's pvp area and that's what you should expect always. Question is why would "1vxer" run away from the 20 "zerglings" when that's exactly the situation the "1vxer" was searching I'd assume?

Checkmath wrote: »

what makes 10-20 coordinated group players (like ball groups or guilds) chase down one guy endlessly? what goes through their mind when they are chasing down one person like that, i don't under stand?

I edited OP a bit for a new question.

Endlessly? If I'm in a group we'll either chase you down because a) you can be a pest later, and it's better to remove that irritation now; or b) stop you from putting a camp down nearby so you and your mates lying all dead in the field can rez up and hit us.

If you're just a rabbit.... just keep running, an organised group will stop chasing you in due time.

Ei8htba11 wrote: »

chris211 wrote: »

but yeah all bowtards need to be ult dumped then bagged

Ok, possibly not the right thread to ask but the quote is here so I'll ask (and I am trying to understand, and I haven't done PvP so indulge me).

Snipe (bowtards apparently), this is frowned upon? It's a legitimate ranged attack, part of the game, other classes have ranged attack. Why is this frowned upon in PvP when I've consistently seen the explanation of 'it's war, everything goes' (notably during the PvP festival event when PvE buffet was on the menu).

Snipe is a legit ranged attack yes, typical snipeling wants as much easy kills with as minimum actual fighting with enemy as possible, in larger fights they often have their own alliance players doing the actual fighting in the front lines while they pick their skilled kills from range without putting their own precious arse in the actual fight. Often the snipeling is also a nightblade class maximazing the chicken effect of the whole setup.
Snipeganks are probably the most chicken ways to play pvp in my opinion, my characters are usually tanky enough and I often survive bowganks, after few fails these players don't bother attacking me, but target the easier targets instead, that's how these chickens opetare. However I've been playing on NA server for few weeks now and my characters aren't as strong as my EU characters of course, I've been bowganked few times so fast from my mount there wasn't any time to block or roll before I was down, even if I survive first hits I'm already so low on resources and won't last long. I got the full impregnable set from battlegrounds and it helps much in those situations, helps to survive but not win those situations at this point.
Bowganking lower cp players is still totally legit way no matter how chicken way to play it is, I'll just get stronger and tankier so at some point those chickens need to find some rockhole to hide instead of easy kills. However chasing these ganklings with a full group is also totally legit way to play also, after few weeks experience as a n00b again I totally support every bowgankling run down to the grass level.

Kalixte wrote: »

idk wrote: »

I wonder if OP is talking about an actual zerg or players searching around a keep for any stragglers after they win a battle.

Zergs tend to not waste their time for one guy. Many at a keep after a battle will search and kill those hiding around in the area. Very different that what OP is trying to say.

Really, you don't know. Perfect demonstration here, literally happens all the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGuK0pGxHzI

This is what happens if you troll the site of the battle. Probably the rabbit in this video kept flipping exactly one ressource all the time.

GarnetFire17 wrote: »

chris211 wrote: »

what makes 20 zerglings chase down one guy endlessly? what goes through their mind when they are chasing down one person like that I don't understand?

What goes through their mind? 1 more kill for the quest. Guys, Cyrodiil PVP was not designed for a few good players to duel each other. It's supposed to for the average player to join up in large army combat. It's not supposed to be a solo experience.

Exactly in most cases just one more kill for quest, it feels the chased ones often think nowadays they're somekind of untouchables even they can kill new players however they like. It's amazing that this discussion is still on, dueling has been around for probably about 3-4 years already, battlegrounds about 2 years now, these pvp modes are obvious choices if someone actually wants to avoid being chased by these large groups. If someone picks Cyrodiil as pvp mode and decides to go tough solo 1vxer way, it's fine unless the soloing is nothing but running away, rock humping, tree hugging and whining about "zerglings".

One time I was riding my mount on my EP and got in the middle of an AD zerg and just rode along with them.
Took them a while to realize they had a red in their midst.
Didn't end too well for me once they realized. lol

It was a scroll run so they were distracted.