Zerg, and what it really is

[freekay]

Can't believe I was on vacation when all that drama in the other thread was going down *sad face*

Anyways, much love to the zerg tribe - you guys always make my DDO runs more lol-full.

[Aritukus]

This... zerg... is too... tempting. I can see how easily it is to fall for it, Mech Nowdays Hazard Team's Action Force is tempted with this dark art of zerging and the result is mostly incredible. Only if we could somehow resist the temptation...

It IS ENLIGHTMENT!

[psykoosi]

Personally I live for those 4min running w/ devils/wizking/monestary, etc runs...so

totally agree with mr.gruber there nothing is better in ddo than a good efficient zerg. to explain what it means, will just link some screenshots to prove my point via completiontimes.

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steelrender atcz

[arjiwan]

I had a bad experience with Agordmils.

Yes, he can solo TOD with no pots, but that doesn't change the fact that he is a chronic shadow humper.

I rest my case.

[lordstranho]

Zerg it
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[Aurora1979]

but as long as you don't die as much as I do you're probably doing OK.

Or being just about the only capped person I've ever seen die in part 2 of the shroud

Zerging is fun, I do it sometimes but its not a life style I can live by to be completely frank, I'm not good enough and some quests I have to slow down.

But then again, the easy quests I can zerg in no problems.

[Finch_Bloomwhiffler]

I do believe that I was in Lotus' groups the first few times Agordmil joined us, and he was indeed THAT bad.


<3 Gordie

<3 Gordie too, but, boy, does he suck at piking!

Gordie: "I'm piking now."
*Gordie proceeds to do entire quest.*

I've always been in ATCZ <-- Skill is obviously not the #1 factor, which is why I disliked the original guild name and ultimately changed it when I had a chance. Maybe it would have been more accurate to call it A Tribe Called Bew?

Bew! Bew! Bew!

[Darknark]

<3 Gordie too, but, boy, does he suck at piking!

Gordie: "I'm piking now."
*Gordie proceeds to do entire quest.*

Bew! Bew! Bew!

I lack both focus and discipline.

[Finch_Bloomwhiffler]

I lack both focus and discipline.

So do I, you just have better results!

[Dance]

Zerging is a strategic run-by or a fast paced questing style. It is ultimately an optimized and better way of running a quest for more exp+items per time it takes to complete. Often people mistake 'running ahead' as 'zerging', or 'turning the corner because i can't heal through walls'. In reality, if you are accusing someone of zerging chances are you simply need to catch up.

The term was adopted because of its methods of exploiting weaknesses in your opponents defenses. If a protoss player decides to ffe, or a terran player fortifies a strategic location on the map, you simply run by their defenses and into their main to force them to re-position. In an mmo environment, you run-by to gather mobs and kill them off in bursts (using aoe + cc) it is more efficient and uses less spell points on casters, cool down effects like multishot will be utilized to their fullest extent, healing and intimi-tanking are much easier when everyone stops to fight at the same spot.

Zerging also optimizes the quest route based off of exp/time. If the quest takes you 10 mins to zerg, has a reward of 10k experience, then an optional that takes 5 mins to complete and gives you only 500 exp is not worth it. You can simply window farm the quest and get 60k experience in 1 hour rather than 42k in 1 hour doing the optional. Hence why most optionals are skipped when zerging.

I get annoyed seeing party posts that say 'NO ZERGERS',
a) follow them, or b) dont heal them. Chances are they are self-sufficient anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Arakasia]

It's a learning curve to run the Tribe Called Zerg way, but the benefits are awesome, when I first started being nearly good enough to run with them, and talked myself into a run,

I think it was either, a temple of VOL with Mechgruber on my fvs "RHEMEIR" or it was a TOD when they took a chance on a newly capped monk "NISAMA" that had converted to become a light specially for more TOD runs,

that my learning really started to take off about what is possible for a toon played and built well can do...



I'm still learning but hopefully, I'm not as green as I was.

As always, it's an awesome rush running with you guys from zerg, just hope I can keep up and not die...

[Lohingren1]

Zerge, Whats zerge? never heard of no Tribe of Zerge nup.

*waves at Mech*

im really loving these over explained detailed descriptions of zerge though, so **** cheesy. Why not just say it how tis, and spare the pleasantries.

tis just a more efficient way to play the game simplez.

Though its not for everyone, zergings fun.
Taking your time can be fun also, not everything has to be a rush fest.

Each to their own, just as people like a specific class, people like their own playstyle. I can understand why people get so stressed when grouping with ATCZ though, ive been on a lotus train many times in the past. And honestly its non stop, hardly any breaks and pretty much gotta be on the ball. Dont be planning to many smoke breaks and fetching drinks cause your most likely gonna be half a quest behind by that time. It is pretty stressful if your not used to doing stuff so fast which is the case for alot of people.

[Quarterling]

"What is zerg?"

"Zerg" is one of the words my StarCraft-obsessed roommate says, and when he sees me playing DDO, he asks me why I'm not playing a "real game" like StarCraft.

Feh; so annoying sometimes! The less I hear the word the better.

[Dolphious]

Zerging is fun.

Throwing a hissy fit and rage-piking the raid because you're asked to chill out and wait a few seconds for buffs in another guild's run is silly and lame.

Going into a profanity laced tirade after the group completes while you pike is pathetic.

Zerging is fun, just like riding the rapids, but so is floating down the river with a beer and some friends.

We adapt to the way you guys run, and have a great time doing. Maybe if you adapt to how other people run from time to time you might find that can be a good time also.

I know some of the Zergers are great about this, maybe spread the word.

[Shanzookie]

Whatup guys and gals!

So, most of you reading this must have seen my other post about the community's effort to rebuilding Cannith, if not, you should definitly take a look at it.

So for a while now, it has come to mind that some people really hate Zerg. That thing is fine, not everyone should like every aspect of the game.

Yet, do we all have the same idea of what Zerg'ing really is?

When I talk to some people, and they tell me their ideas of what Zerg is, they imagine a group trying to team work, and then someone runs off and go die by itself, and being a burden. This is not Zerg, this is just someone who didn't know what their limits were and died off by taking a risk they couldn't handle. I feel that if people want to work together, we need to understand each other.

So what is Zerg? Unlike what some people may think, Zerg really is team work, we may not move as a group, but we all do different things in the goal of completing quickly. What's the idea here? Efficiency, affecting the group positively, making the most of your game time. This is especially true if you're someone who, like me, enjoys doing frequent TRs.

Zerg is strategy, and SP runs this game. Knowing this, there's a few reasons why we go really fast when questing.

1) Efficiency, the faster you run the faster you complete a quest
2) less SP usage, the more monsters you gather up in one pile, the more easily your group's caster can take them out with one blow. If a sorcerer can handle a lot of monster agro because of their items/race etc etc, why not go ahead grab more monsters, then you can take them out using less sp.
3) Often we don't bother with archers, they do really low damage overall and we use them to proc torcs/conc opp items to regenerate sp. Besides, killing mobs 1 by 1 is way too sp expensive for little benefit, considering archers never really group up and go out of your AoEs when you place down a firewall or blade barrier.

Yeah, Zerg is team work, for example in maraud the mines or in bloody crypt, if everyone goes solo one part of the quest, we can get some sick completion times. We're all contributing to the quest, even if we seperate and rampage each on our different side!


So maybe you didn't have this idea of Zerg, and that's why I made this post after all. That being said, hope that helped some of you understand Zerg, and don't forget to have fun, it's a game after all
Also, leave me your thoughts, would be appreciated^^


NOTE: For more information about The Zerg Tribe more specificly, follow this forum post, it's very complete http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=361885


Sigkur, proud dinosaur of the Zerg Tribe of Cannith

Unfortunitly, Alot of ppl that zerg on cannith are NOT about team work, They run ahead to do their thing, leave mobs and trash for everyone else to deal with so they can get to the end of the quest as fast as they can to get the XP. Don't for get we have Quite a little population of elitest on our server. So if you can keep up Re-Roll!

[tiipeJii]

Unfortunitly, Alot of ppl that zerg on cannith are NOT about team work, They run ahead to do their thing, leave mobs and trash for everyone else to deal with so they can get to the end of the quest as fast as they can to get the XP. Don't for get we have Quite a little population of elitest on our server. So if you can keep up Re-Roll!

Ah the pesky elitists. Always demanding game be played their way, luckily we have so many other ppl willing to adapt their style of play to the current groups one.

[Zeklijan]

haven't read this in a while, so many comments.


I am one of the following:
->Zerg'ing
->Piking at entrance letting Steelrender/Lotusfly/agordmils or any other do the quest then join the next run after a nice drink and bio. What's wrong with that? :P


Note that even if I'm a melee most the time, when I'm not piking I AM useful!
Why?

I open doors, pull levers, break barrels and gather mobs in a pile

Winning!

[xxScoobyDooxx]

A true description of 'zerging' should be done in one sentence otherwise it is not a true desciption of zerging.

[parvo]

I know what zerg is not. Now I'm learning what zerg is.

[Finch_Bloomwhiffler]

You were still buffing.
Lotusfly finished the quest.
That is how you zerg.

Say "XP! Thank you!"
Not "I'm getting the end chest."
Cue party reform.

When there is a wipe
Don't point to the server lag.
Blame it on Photo!

(Smiley faces are 0 syllables.)