Why would it dissuade anyone? The only viable time to swarm is very early in the morning when no one is around, or when there aren't people soloing the second and third floor camps.
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"Moving to Moat." or "Taking cloud stairs." or "Taking 2nd/3rd floor."
Any of those camps get claimed and the swarm is cut off at the knees, which is fine. Just come back when no one else is there. The real issue is often that a single group wants the entire first floor to be their own personal playground. It's ignorance of the actual mobs involved in the swarm, and an irrational loathing for its going on.
Countless times people have shown up and the zone has filled and I just logged until no one was there.
What's the bard going to say? "I'm camping it all." Do other groups say that concerning camps disappearing as the zone fills up?
Misinformation and rampant tear time has led to the current status.
There is a way to social much of the Moat mobs into the swarm, but there is also a way to leave most outside of it if the zone has a group operating on the first floor. It's a very easy pull. One that takes little effort to control, and a reaver that can be managed without issue.
People avoiding a dungeon because a bard is killing mobs they would never pull, in a small section they don't travel, is laughable. Sure, maybe the bard dies, and the mobs return back. At stables that is irrelevant. Same with Temple. Same with Arena as long as the puller doesn't just rush around a corner.
Prime time with many groups and the bard is dick. And all it would take is a single group moving to Moat or a character claiming a camp on the 2nd floor and the pull is not possible. That is when comes the time for a petition. I very much doubt that bards have caused more drama than slower groups of neckbeards bullying their way into camps. But swarming is a vile word to the minds of the meek, and unfortunately the wailing of bad clickers was listened to.
But anyone who avoided going to CoM because a bard was there is just wrong.
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