Wintergrasp Rant

[LavCat]

My reasons for hating PvP are similar to what happened to you in the salt flats. My first toon was an undead rogue. Friends thought I would like rogues, and I thought that the undead looked pretty cool (before I realized no amount of cool gear made the bones hidden). I quested through into Stranglethorn Vale without a lot of pvp. I had a couple instances in STV and Stonetalon, but nothing horrid, and I could usually hold my own.

When I got to stranglethorn, things changed. The alliance were always lording over the zone, and coming and going from Nessingwary's camp was brutal. Then, one night, I heard short john mithril scream about his chest. I rode down to take a look, staying out of the pit, just watching as these 70's tore through each other over the chest. When all was said and done, a gnome rogue in full T5 saw me, mounted, and chased me down. I mounted, and ran, but alas, he killed me. I walked back to my body, bandaged up, started to mount, and died. Oh hey look, there he was. So, next time I rezzed a little farther away from my body, bandaged, and sprinted away, when sprint came off cooldown, BAM! dead again, same gnome rogue.

This went on this way all the way from Gurubashi arena to Grom'Gol. I was furious about it, I even tried to hearth out, but he killed me while I was casting. From that day forward, I hated PvP servers. The ability to ruin someone's night was ridiculous. I couldn't get on a high level character and fight back, Shoju was ~41, and my highest level character.

I stayed on the pvp server only because that was where my friends were, but I started searching for the less travelled zones, and avoiding world pvp whenever I could. I bg'd as often as I could, farming marks for gear to help make leveling less painful (I was a newb, and a baddie, but I was great at stunlocking )

Because of this, I have little to no desire to see world pvp, and I find it hard to equate WG to world pvp. Sure, you can do things while the battle isn't going on, and you can find some pvp during this time.

I still remember the name of the little bastard gnome rogue. Maxameeliun. I have often thought about sending an 80 back to bloodscalp and trying my hand at killing him as revenge, but that just seems silly.

Did not your friends on Bloodscalp have any higher level characters that could have helped you?

All my characters monitor Worlddefense (I do miss being able to chat in that channel) and there is hardly any activity these days. City sacking and city defense are about all that's left.

A few nights ago Lazypeon and his friends had taken the Stormwind mage tower, and it was sad for anyone who zoned in flagged. ...Or anyone that did not cloak and vanish, which my rogue did. There were bodies everywhere. We assembled a great number of people on the other side of the portal and zoned in all at once. The Horde did not escape. Here I am sure the Alliance numerical advantage helped, but the people who like that sort of thing are probably a small subset of the server population. We then went around the Horde cities, killing the leaders, auctioneers, flightmasters, and anything we could find flagged.