Sucidial Scrapyard

The Ghost Of Scrapyard seems to have turned suicidal. Or maybe he's trying to corner the Black Market...

Anyway, this has been going on for quite some time. I took that screenshot on 12/05/09, but I noticed it about a week before that. I thought maybe it was just something that randomly happend once. But after seeing it for the third time, I started paying attention.

This happens every time he spawns, and his spawns seem to be a lot more frequent. I was in the middle of running a mission, and a team was formed on Guardian to take him out. Within 10-15 mins., they announced that Scraps was up again, following the same path.

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Damn, he was bad enough for us dial-up people at the BM when he was on the other side of the docks.

It has been happening since the BM was placed there and I bugged this for 2 Issues after the markets were introduced. I can imagine it's low on their priority list.

Longstanding issue. I know it's been brought up several times before, since his "parade route" was set before the BMs were put in.

It's really irritating when you have a group attacking him and he runs for it. His running is bad enough without the kill field.

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Scrapyard is pretty idiotic in general. In addition to his wandering suicides, in combat he runs like a little girl when the slightest debuff is laid on him, even if it's one he massively resists (a behavior he shares with Deathsurge). In addition to being incredibly frustrating having to chase him as he plays Donkey Kong leaping around buildings and catwalks, it's incredibly common for him to end up droning himself or (again) killing himself at the black market.

All it takes for for one Scrapyarder to get killed by a drone (usually because they're chasing a player who runs to the drones or zone through the Ferry) and now that drone is enemy number one on Scrapyard's and all the Scrapyarders' list.

"The drone killed Larry, get it!"

And that's how Scrapyard redied.

Here's the thing, though: Prior to the Winter Event, I'd see him go to different locations. Since the Winter Event, that is the ONLY place he goes.

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when I wanna take him out I go straight to his 'hood (potter's field) and call his A** out.

Ok, its good to know I'm not the only one who's seen this.

Of course, it scared the bejeebers out of me the first time I saw him and his parade coming straight towards me at the BM. I think I managed to close the auction window and trigger flight and all of my defenses in about .5 seconds.