Camping is teamwork, actually, for the very reasons I outlined. It aids your team by serving as a distraction. If I'm a single DPS holding up a single other enemy DPS, then my net cost:benefit is 1:1. If I manage to even hold two dps alone, then my net cost:benefit is 1:2. A simple cost:benefit analysis shows that camping can be extremely beneficial, as it is a great allocation of resources from a cost:benefit perspective. If you take into account the overall cost:benefit:time ratios, you can even determine how many DPS you'll need to keep distracted over what period of time to make the duration of time you're spending camping their base worth it.
Also note that, if you're camping because you think your class is useless in mid, then you're doing it wrong. I don't think my class is useless in mid. I do very well in mid, often ending up as one of the top 5 melee DPS of any match in each of the categories of damage, kill count, and (least amount of) deaths. Me thinking I don't do well in mid has nothing to do with it. Camping is simply beneficial very often. It's like setting up an ambush to reinforcements - a mainstay of war tactics.
Of course there are times where camping is not beneficial, as well. At those times, you'll find me in mid.
As you implied, flexibility is key. And staying in mid regardless of anything is the very opposite of flexibility.
Whether it is because they are bad or otherwise, I have held many healers at their base for numerous minutes at a time. At the worst of times, all I can do is slow them down with stuns and roots. But even so, as healers are so precious in PvP, who knows how many enemy deaths I indirectly aided in by having slowed down a single healer for even so short a time.
Regardless of the reasons or duration, keeping healers away from mid is greatly beneficial.
Damn straight. I will play what I like, and I will excel at it even if I find myself in a disadvantage. I will be where I am most useful to my team, but I will do so on my own standards. After all, I'm flexible, which even you admitted is of high importance to winning PvP.
You should try it sometime. It's fun.



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