For those who didn't play DAoC: 

If you type /stick (or use a /stick macro) you start following another player (enemy or ally) which means you don't have to move your character at all to stay in range and melee him. It made melee combat kind of easy mode IMO.

WoW had a similar command (/follow) but it only worked on friendly players.

I would love to hear your arguments for both yes and no.

Note that the movement in CU probably won't have acceleration and decceleration like DAoC.

/stick or /follow just = macroing. In a PvP game i think macroing should be nonexistent. Rift allowed macro in an overabundance and for me it ruined the game. If you did not macro you did not PvP or Raid, or other higher level things. I am not a fan of forced macroing (even if its not forced by the devs) i am also not a fan of gearscore and other marginalizing of players.

Yes back in the early days of DAoC /stick had its place, but it ended up being a crutch i feel for lazy players.

No offense intended to those who enjoy it, but to me it does nto belong in a PvP environment. 

If you want to hit someone, then aim! Thats my two cents here. I hate it being forced to use addons, macros etc just to keep up. I want to play the game and use my own skills for that.

Despite of that - I do like a follow-command, so if you need to take a quick break when travelling, you still can follow your teammates.

I voted no because I feel the enemy needs to make the effort to keep up with me.  I'm willing to run amuck in PVP, it's not that hard.  

I still love my /follow for the reason stated above, quick breaks.

Originally posted by Vrika
No, because players have to play the UI-minigame too much as it is. Further eliminating the need to look at the actual gameworld and situation instead of just using the UI is not a good idea.

Makes no sense. (Global) Cooldowns and the missing of /stick and /face eliminated the possibility to look at the situation and to have more tactical fights.

I'm going to vote no here for 2 reasons:

1. Adding /stick commands cheapen the feel of strategic combat, and make you a worse player. Even in DAoC if you just /stuck someone, and spammed your attacks you were doing it wrong. Positionals, positionals, positionals. You could always tell someone who knew what they were doing by how they abused/mastered circle strafing. Let's not repeat a system that punishes players fighting strategically, or encourages players to /stick and just watch their hotbars.

2. It essentially encourages people to be lazy, which I don't agree with in any skill heavy PvP combat MMO. I want someone to move around in combat when I'm fighting them, but not have a bunny hop fest. /stick ends in 1 of 3 ways usually in DAoC: Someone is a better player and can land strafe hits, both people stand there staring each other in face slowly wittling each other down, or they are silly and try to run without sos or something exposing their fleshy back. Either way no skill was expended with a /stick keybind. 

Just talking about this makes me miss my armsman though :)

That said I do believe there should be a /follow command usable on people in YOUR group only, this way groups stick together and you dont have that random skald/minstrel/bard being a butthole following your 8 man around for free RPs :P

/stick helped combat the circle strafing and bunny hopping. The fact that strafing also had a slower movement rate helped as well.

/face was excellent for against archers as otherwise it was completely impossible to tell where we were (yes, I was scout). Until they added visible arrows that ALWAYS pointed towards the archer. Which wasn't as good.

It really depends on the movement system in the game. If the movement is WoW/WArhammer/GW2 style movement then there is no need for stick on enemies. If it is like DAoC then yes you need it. Preferably though, the movement is updated like WoW and you only need a stick for friendly targets. maybe a /face button but that's it for enemies

Originally posted by jtcgs
No. That was one of the many in a long line of crap ideas that made DaoC PvP for carebears. If you dont have the skill to even follow your enemy you really shouldnt be PvPing at all.

+1, said it a lot better than my 3 paragraph explanation.

If you want to get rid of the /stick /face macros and instead have bunny hopping straffing artards in combat, at least keep the 0 Dmg for strafing in the game. DAoC RvR along with all of its mechanics are what made a great PVP experience, then along comes WoW with its Heavy hotkey gameplay where the only situational move is a backstab from rogues, and that was easy to pull off since Rogue had soo many on demand CC's. DAoC was a differnt breed of combat, with style chains and multipul positional abilities, with negated dmg if you were busy moving while spamming abilities... While some feel this was stupid and not twitching, Bunny hopping artards broke the emersion just as much in newer MMO's. I had no idea a person in a fantasy realm could bounce like a bunny while doing 720's in mid air, spamming there instant cast fireballs... just saying.

/stick /face was one of the worst things about DAoC's pvp.

/stick, /face, runthrough, /face, runthrough, /face, runthrough, dead enemy....it was such a terrible way to exploit the LOS mechanics in pvp and when lag came into play you could yo-yo all over the place using this combo.

I had fun dropping lame-ass stealthers off bridges in OF by making them rubber-band on stick and dragging them off the edges of the high towers, but generally it was a lame tactic.