Being called "Runner" in PvP..

I was reading some other thread about AB where some dude said that each death should give 5 Faction to discourage runners. I'm not sure exactly what kind of runner he meant and i do not base my "oppinion" on his statement.

However, i've numerous times been whispered where some extremely hostile person has called me a noob for being a "runner". I then right away know that this person does not play GvG at all. I and probably many other GvGers are used to "kiting", to save yourself from damage and give monks a break in GvG. This habbit is something that is implemented in your backbone and you use it everywhere.

Now, what these morons in RA,AB, TA, HvH, whatever don't realise is that you are not an noob runner for kiting. A noob runner is a person who loads his bar with running skills, block skills, selfheals, whatever to stay alive or run away in RA when it's 4v1. I usually play assassin when doing "random pvping" in ra, ab etc, I can't just stand like an dumbass and take loads of damage and die, i have to be mobile.



So please, PvE paladins out there, you can serve the light and bring justice to those horrid monsters all you want but Guild Wars pvp is not about valour, heroism and standing your ground in a glorious battle. Please keep this in mind next time you feel you have to bash someone about Kiting. I hope this message is brought to the right eyes, if you know you are not one of them then have a cookie and be happy.

When you use a tactic that completely unravels someone else's and, as a result, beat them you sometimes will be blessed with insults from the embarrassed and vanquished foe. My mesmer has been called a runner before by touch rangers... or at least their corpses. I snare them with Ethereal Burden then slap Conjure Phantasm and Conjure Nightmare on them, keeping well outside of touch range.

There's a difference between running for the sake of running and running for the sake of maintaining the advantage when the situation requires it.

Yeah people call you a 'noob runner' for kiting because they chose to take Mending instead of a speed buff or snare.

There's a distinct difference between a runner and a kiter. A kiter moves his/her positioning to mitigate as much potential damage as possible. A runner enters the battle with the intent of running around to 'grief' the other team in to quitting. The latter is an EULA offence.

Kiting is a valid tactic. Don't like it? Bring a speed buff/snare.

QFT.

If they were too stupid to bring snaring/speed buffs to the fight, punish them for it. Maybe next time they won't be so stupid.

Trash-talking and common sense are rarely seen together in one sentence. Same in FA, bond the gates and stay inside, boom, you're automatically a coward and a noob.

Hehe reminds me of a time when I was monking and executioner's strike only hit me for 9 and the warrior bashed me after the game with stupid insults, but yeah this is why I play offline or do not disturb when I RA or do any arena that involves meeting up with random people.

I've started to do this recently aswell since frustrated people just have to break your balls when they loose. But you can't really expect the most dumb and stupid creature on this planat to take a defeat easily when it's their own fault.

Recently i've come to feel sorry for these paladins that don't know better, sometime some conversations with these individuals really leads to them being retarded, for real, downs syndrome or something. Their sentences makes no sense, their arguments are just random words. My girlfriends brother has Downs Syndrome and he is one smart dude, smarter than these people on the retardweb.

I love being called a "Noob Runner" in pvp. Since my IGN is Runner i reply with simple words and get them even more enfuriated. Like said above its their own fault for taking something other than a speed buff or condition removel. As a Ranger i'm not exactly gonna let them get next to me.

The standing your ground heroism backfires sometimes on wammos, i was playing alliance battles yesterday and had a whole mob of the retarded C+Space wammos your taking about stuck on me, so i stopped and used GoS/meteor shower/savannah heat/tenais heat/searing heat, not a single one moved out before they died.

Almost as stupid as bringing gladiators defence and then using it against a monk in ab...

"Noob Runner" - Elite Shout. Cost 5 Adrenaline. (This skill disables all intelligence for 1-999 seconds)

See PROFESSIONAL players do this thing we like to call, KITING.

IMO a noob runner is someone in RA when its 4 v 1 and they have NO chance, and all they do is run in circles to annoy people. Running in AB is Kiting.

Rangers also get called pussies for pindown/cripple shot on melee classes and then falling back to a safe distance. Yeah....it's called intelligence not cowardice and we alleged noobs will use it over and over to ambush the real noobs.

The people who shout NOOB RUNNER, in AB are a toucher ranger and trappers wet dream. Easy pickins.

Surely these people are noobs, just use throw dirt. Then the monk cant see who they heal. LOL if only.

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Pretty much sums up my thoughts.

Touchers are the biggest offenders for this by far....

The problem is you cant argue with idiots it just doesnt work and is a waste of effort.

Last week i played ab as a crip shot ranger was capping a shrine on my own and an enemy player on his dervish comes along.

Due to my skill set i put poison and bleeding on him and just keep him crippled while I run around for a minute while he died then cap the shrine again without taking any damage. However the guy/girl playing the dervish made it sound like it was me that didnt understand the way the game worked. He/She took my "cowardice" of using crip shot as some sort of moral victory because his/her build would beat mine if i let him/her come near me.

These sort of people should just be ignored for the tards that they are. They will ether start to understand some tactics of the game or will remain as fodder in almost all games but pepole with an IQ should just ignore them its a wast of time otherwise

kiting is to be expected, however catching a ranger with escape and every other run buff under the sun and bodyblocking him into a corner and stabbing him to death is very satisfying

I remember one time I was playing BA w/pindown in RA. This
retarded warr come up and tries to solo me. He had no mending
touch of course. You can guess how it went:
Crip
Burning
DShot Healsig
"Noob runner, dont be a pussy bitch and use cripple!!!1!11!!"

i dont get why people get so uppity about kiters lol

probably cause they wiki'd the build that was absofrigginlutely perfect for RA...they use it...get crippled/snared and eventually killed. so i suppose maybe some people just attach their ego to the game that much

oh wait.....nvm =)

If they have an IQ above room temperature they'll either wait til you engange someone ELSE and run up, or wait to you use the pin skill and try and dodge it from afar. That would be a skilled tactic, not run, get pinned, then unleash verbal/textual assaults.

I don't get called a 'noob runner' for kiting all too much...
But when I do, I can have a giggle and rest assured that I'm a far superior player

Though... It *is* fun leading a posse of wammos/dervs/'sins back to Base Defense. C-space scrubs ftw

Man you think you have it bad:

KIll someone with Burning Arrow Build Enemy:Ahhh you got me
Kill Someone ith Touch Ranger Build: Enemy:You ---- piece ---- -----with your --- build I hope you ---- -----. Il fight u 1v1 ----

Hey If my builds bad - Why are you dead?
Sighs - somedays I have to go Back to Long Ranging just to avoid the hate

Because touch ranger is the most nooby build in the game. You just mindlessly spam those 2 skills, with the odd running/evasion stance if need be.