User:RTG/The Blob

What is a blob in modern terms?

In contemporary MMORPG, aggression is a key element, not in sentiment, but that the game itself is based around battles and wars based mostly on strategy and timing. Most often another key part of the game is to spend time "farming" resources and currency, to gain strength for battles and wars through crafting and purchasing various items.

This farming often goes on in a PVP (player versus player) area. This means the player-character is not guarded in any way any by the game system (most MMORPG have core areas where player-characters are safe from aggression). In a PVP area the player may be attacked and robbed of these farmed resources and currencies. As a high dexterity skill level is often secondary in MMORPG, the first key to strength is usually a mixture of items and experience levels combining to give the player-character various strengths up to a level where they can see off a whole hoard of aggressors. The second key to PVP strength is the hoard. An MMORPG wants you to gather in teams of as many player-characters as possible.

Even the finest items and highest experience levels can be conquered with a large enough hoard. Everybody is trying to avoid the hoard in a PVP area of an MMORPG.

So a hoard often picks a point of ambush and awaits a victim.

They form a blob... The Blob is a hoard of adversaries which cannot be conquered because of their numerosity.

The Blob is a key element in contemporary MMORPG.

To be blobbed is to be overpowered by a large number of aggressors.

"You're a crude species. Only your size makes you formidable" ~ Seven of Nine