A medical (comical) analysis of "scrapperlock"

In my absolutely non-professional medical opinion, "scrapperlock" can be viewed as an illness. It is dangerous and highly contagious. The most noticeable symptom is of course the behavioral trend to attack the largest group of anything that poses a threat. Other common symptoms include impatience, hyperactivity, and disregard for self as well as teammates. In the most extreme cases, those with scrapperlock can go deaf and mute. All of these symptoms stem from the same root cause, which is the delusions of immortality that scrapperlock creates.

Even though a player is diagnosed with chronic scrapperlock, he is often able to function normally within a team. The player will always experience frequent minor flare ups, and may notice in time to return to his group. Commonly, however, full scrapperlock will take hold, and the player will be lost to the illness until such time as the armies of darkness have been vanquished in their entirety.

Scrapperlock, however, is a lesser affliction of the rare "mirelock." The added danger of mirelock is the rapid pace at which it advances to the chronic stage. This is often too soon for the illness to be diagnosed and treated properly. Further, once mirelock has developed, there is very little that can be done to cure it. This is because mirelock is more than a simple illness. It is an addiction. Mirelock causes the delusions of immortality, but is fed by the presence of foes. The more foes present, the greater these delusions become. The greater these delusions become, the stronger the illness and thus an increased number of foes, et cetera, ad infinitum.

A typical case of mirelock exhibits all the symptoms of scrapperlock, but each of these symptoms is exaggerated. Where a scrapperlocking player may find himself ahead of the team, the mirelocking player needs to be ahead of the team. A mirelocking player will find his power directly proportional to the number of foes around him, so where a scrapperlocking player will finish a group off before moving on, a mirelocking player will race ahead and let the stragglers catch up to him. Impatience and hyperactivity are worse in the mirelock case because of powers operating on a timer. The deaf/mute symptom is also more common with mirelock for this reason as well. The disregard for self is further inflamed because of the presence of an offensive self reviving ability. A mirelocking individual must be deep within enemy ranks so that in the event of a defeat, fuel will exist for the fire.

In conclusion, this is a very serious illness with potential ramifications on an extremely large scale. If a cure exists, it has been elusive. I urge this community to help me find a cure for mirelock. If we are to find a cure, we must know more about the disease. This will require research, and countless volunteers to experiment. Please, for the sake of the community, roll a warshade. Learn about mirelock.

"Must find more bodies. More bodies mean more fluffies. More fluffies mean more bodies. More bodies mean higher damage resistance. More damage resistance means more bodies. More bodies mean more fuel. More fuel means more bodies."

It is a vicious circle of madness.

Scrapperlock has nothing on Irresistible FURY !!!

Must hit, they hit me ? Must Hit BACK !! HIT HIT HIT HIT HIT HIT.

don't forget scrapperlock's ugly cousin stalkerlock. there are few enough of us out there, but if you're teamed with a stalker you will see this variation of the 'lock at some point: stalker gets repeated tunnel-vision after initial target/boss is down, rehides and moves to next spawn as team aoe's down the remaining mobs, repeat. this usually ends in the stalker trailing a couple spawns' worth of minions and LT's around for half the mission while everyone else is pulling the mobs off to kill them as stalker is moving on.

if the stalker's good, it's beautiful to watch, but if the stalker's not so good then the team will soon find a horde of minions and LT's coming. and perhaps even that AV that just looked like a regular boss will drop in too.