August News/Discussion

[Mirajj]

And, again, get off your high horse. I'm going out of my way to avoid attacking people who don't share my views - which, generally, is the majority of the Lounge's WoW group - and I don't think it's very fair for you to act better or somehow superior to those of us who enjoy full on world PvP.

I think that the problems here lie in definition. I have no problem with world pvp. I've attacked Crossroads, and defended Southshore myself a number of times. I have chased a gnome 3/4 of the way across HFP because he attacked me while I was almost dead from a mob. Fun times. Even level times.

I think that is the key, though. Most folks see world pvp and think of the lvl 70 who has nothing better to do with their time than prey on and camp a lvl 30. It's very frusterating for us to imagine it, and there is NOTHING the lvl 30 can do besides call out for help which may or may not arrive, or log to a different toon.

From what I see and feel, most of the Lounge has no problem with the first definition of world pvp. The problem comes with the definition of ganking, which is looked on (rightly or wrongly) as being a jerk for being a jerks sake, because there is no mechanic in the game expressly forbidding it.

Now, because there is no mechanic to prevent it (Though I am amused by WAR's "chicken" idea) it is not, per se, wrong. But a lot of folks in the Lounge (and I include myself in this number) have difficulty understanding how ruining someone else's gametime (and that's what low level ganking is, really, whether they expect it or not being on a pvp server) can be deemed 'fun and enjoyable'.

I can appreciate your determination in sticking to your convictions on this, but I do feel that you will never have anything but an uphill road convincing the majority of the Lurkers that this is a "fun and great" way to spend their time.