Kill scores don't truly represent your performance

[Hyrist]

Kill secured? Really?

So if a nin comes and attacks a flag that I'm defending, and we are fighting 1v1, and he gets to like 5% HP where I can finish him with a full thrust, and here comes super PLD with his flying shield and lands the final blow before my full thrust animation finishes, do you seriously think he deserves that kill? Because that's exactly what happened during that match.

Sounds like sour grapes to me.

And yes. Cause your "Last Hit" could have been stunned and the ninja run away, or Perfected Dodged and you get assassinated. Does it really matter who 'gets the kill' when you're on the same team anyways?

KS = Kill Secured. Period, end of story. It only gets stolen when your kill is taken by an opposing team. These people are your teammates, not the opponents. Stow the Ego, ask the PLD to sit on the Flag, as you're damaged, and go join the front with your healer and do something better with your gap closers than just sit on your heels and complain that someone 'stole your kill'.

For the record, I rarely, if ever, pay attention to Kill Scores for performances. Reason being, as a Paladin my duties vary from securing kills to protecting allies. It's just that variable on the circumstance. Honestly it's a matter of how many kills the team gets collectively. So yeah, if I'm capable of finishing someone, I'm going to.

In slaughter, if I've got Battle High, I make sure it turns around into more shields for the team. But too often I see DPS peal off because they don't want to over-extend, and then it becomes my job to complete the execute, because I'm most likely to survive the retaliation.

In secure, it's more about dissuading more assaults on the point, or being sure that roamer absolutely, positively eats the dirt.

Team > Individual, Always.

[Kassiekane]

Sounds like sour grapes to me.

And yes. Cause your "Last Hit" could have been stunned and the ninja run away, or Perfected Dodged and you get assassinated. Does it really matter who 'gets the kill' when you're on the same team anyways?

Stow the Ego, ask the PLD to sit on the Flag, as you're damaged, and go join the front with your healer and do something better with your gap closers than just sit on your heels and complain that someone 'stole your kill'.

Oh no you're getting wrong, I definitely PTFO every match. I was nailing the drones every spawn, and pretty much carried the node for my team, thus the damage. The reason why I killed a nin at the flag is because the paladin wantedto go mid. So I waited behind a wall and baited the nin. I was burning him badly, he had no chance by the time the pld came back and 'helped' me. And you know what? I still had enough time to run back to mid, carry the node, and win the match for my team. So if you think this is me trying to stoke my 'ego', you're wrong. This thread was made as a late response to a thread I once seen in General Discussion, where people were so impressed that a ninja got 14 kills in a match.

What I'm trying to say, is that kill scores has no value whatsoever. I don't personally care that people can steal kills, but it's bothersome that people think you are bad if you don't have a high kill count, which is bullsh*t.