OK… here is where ArenaNet does blow chunks.

Aside from the horrible team mismatching, the verbal abuse is still DEFINITELY allowed in combat areas. Please keep in mind that AreaNet is a very “woke”, DEI-friendly, pro-pride company.

On paper.

In competitive area, you can call someone a “retard”, make fun of their gender-identity (or what one assumes their gender identity or orientation are depending on whether they’ve done something poorly or well), tell people they’re idiots. It all seems to be fine with AN.

Keep in mind that we are still talking about a very, very small number of players. But when they’re on the losing team, they just can’t seem to help themselves. After all, they’re all Super Chads who never lose. Must be everyone else’ fault.

And, to be fair, if there is an ArenaNet employee running around in WvW then it’s someone who is part of the development team, not customer service. Maybe they’re just enjoying the fruits of their labors, but I figure they’re there for a specific reason. They shouldn’t be tasked with policing map chat.

Still.

On LC this week, there’s this guy….

I first saw him tag up yesterday. He was standing around at a waypoint, so maybe on a bio break or something. But I joined his tag today after failing to single-handedly save Quentin Lake and Langor Gulch from a group of mostly green and a few red players. No surprise there. You can’t attack a mob, or at least I can’t, and survive.

So I joined up with the tag. We took a security checkpoint and he had just ppt-ed Umberglade Woods while green had moved in on QL and Langor, and began trebbing our keep. Like they do every single friggin’ morning.

I assumed we were mobbing up to defend our territories that green was clearly flipping, but instead we headed to Ogre Watch and got demolished by a group of reds who were very good with stealth and/or porting. The tag demanded we stack, but as over half of us were instantly downed, that seemed unlikely.

By the time the seven-man squad Vito commanded arrived at the keep, the green team was a mob of around 20 players. Vito started commanding people to stack in the corner while they clouded the keep lord. And then IMMEDIATELY started calling people retards and idiots because we lost.

The green zerg was a MUCH smaller group when they took QL. Maybe 6-8 players. They grew a bit when they took Durios and Langor, and by the time anyone on the map – besides the people there defending it (tbf, they didn’t call it out until the walls were down) – green outnumbered us by a lot.

So “stacking” on Vito while a large mob of enemy players clouded around the lord and drained it, Vito was busy screaming at everyone in all caps that they didn’t know how to WvW, and that they were retarded idiot chuds.

I’m a noob, but I’m pretty sure you can’t “stack” and take out a mob five times your size. Never once seen it happen. No one pulled EWP so players from other maps couldn’t come to defend. No one really had time to do much of anything. Green just marched around our area of the map and flipped territories, then began the exact same assault on our keep they do every morning.

It’s not that stacking is a bad strategy; it’s very useful. But it’s simple math. Green was also stacked. They were 20+ players. Aside from people manning siege – which is the best way of fighting superior numbers – there were about 4 people. And it was over in about 15 seconds.

As an autistic person, I object to the term “retard.” I prefer “window licker”, and I’ll tell you why.

War is retarded. Genocide is retarded. Screaming at other players for failing to pull off the impossible while you stand in the corning acting like a spoiled infant is retarded.

People with Down Syndrome are innocent. Child-like, but with life experience. You can have great conversations with them, if you aren’t an asshole.

On the other hand, window-licking is the first step in scientific inquiry. Geologists used to lick rocks to determine something of their composition.

Maybe poop BEFORE you log in next time, eh commander? It’s not our fault we didn’t demolish the enemy mob with a small handful of players while you did nothing but stand there and scream about the stupidity of other people.

I’m starting to feel like maybe ArenaNet should be paying me to play this game, rather than the other way around.

At least the Legendary Starter Kit 2 from the Wizard’s vault is fixed, so world completion (though still tedious) at least has an end-goal in sight. But holy hell.

I’m officially moving the Lutgardis Conservatory vibe from “resigned” to “pretty damned frustrated.”

So map completion it is. A new legendary weapon won’t make me a better player, but it IS shiny.

I can live with shiny.

PS. The tag took back the keep before I wrote this post after successfully re-claiming Langor Gulch with only a few of the red team left behind to try and keep us out (thanks for the res, guildie! Didn’t have time to respond, but I think his name starts with Logan). But after I published the post, green had re-claimed Langor and our Keep again.

It’s sad. Almost like 5-7 people can’t fight 20-30. Who knew math meant something?