August News/Discussion

[Taelas]

Fair world PvP is more or less a myth:)

Depends on your value of 'fair', I suppose. Outside of the ganking, my experience on that PvP server was more or less exactly what I wanted. The ganking, however, ruined it.

I don't know why people would spend time ganking and camping people significantly lower level than them; the handful of times I did it, it was either part of a server-wide world PvP thing (back in the day prior to the honor system, two full raid groups of Horde comprised of three different guilds took over Stranglethorn Vale for three hours) or a vengeance camp. I thoroughly enjoy ganking in terms of people within about five levels of me, and it's downright hilarious when someone gets ganked by me, gets their main, and then consequently has their main camped by my alt (who is currently lvl 63) and has to call for help. But going out of my way to camp lvl 30s without prior provocation? Sounds boring to me, unless it's somwhere like Nessy's where I'd be trying to provoke a big fight.

Then my main gripe does not apply to you (though I'm not letting you entirely off the hook:P). The fact remains, however, that people who do it exist. To use your example, at Nesingwary's, they'd kill low-level characters and disappear the moment reinforcements show up.

If it was just someone spotting a lowbie and deciding to kill him spontaneously, I could get over it -- that's expected to happen. I wouldn't enjoy it, but it'd not be a deal-breaker. It doesn't happen often enough that it's an issue, and it's easy enough to avoid by questing in less well-travelled areas (such as Desolace).

Vengeance ganking is something entirely different -- at least it was provoked.