Savingsupertokyo,Sep 23 2005, 04:04 AM Wrote:Today I landed in Dustwallow and mounted up to head towards Onyxia, that sly beast with the newly uncontrollable aggro.
As I was riding I came upon a level 31 Human Warlock named Sassafras. I dismounted and walked behind her for a while and she didn't notice me. I wasn't trying to sneak up on her or anything.
Then my instincts kicked in. I smelt burned flesh and tasted blood in my mouth in anticipation. Fireblast. Frost nova. Cone of cold. All critical hits.
I took off my robe and pants and cannibalized her.
Then I was ashamed, because I had broken my rules of pvp. #1) Red = Dead. #2) Unless they have a clever emote/name/guild tag that makes me laugh
She was in the guild <Respek Knuckles> and I laughed. I /apologize and rode on to two hours of wiping on Onyxia. Karma?
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What a challenge that player 29 levels lower than you must have presented. And that string of critcals - surely sign of a fluke in game mechanics and not the vast disparity in levels + equipment. To me I think the crowning unglory was disrobing and cannibalizing your victim. Class moves there.
But then again I'm a carebear. I prefer a honorable and fair fight. In group PvP in the world I seek out opponents that are within levels of me. I don't attack an opponent that is engaged with a mob and will let them med up before I attack.
For example the other day I was heading to Molten core when I saw a flagged paladin fighting a pair of spiders in the Burning Steppes. As I closed a undead rogue unstealthed and dropped the paladin to 1/3 or 1/4 health in his opening moves. I dismounted and engaged the rogue. I'm sure that the horde will see this as an example of Alliance zerging but if its not a fair fight then I will jump in to even the odds. After all the rogue had a chance to finish off the paladin while trying to evade me. About as much chance as the paladin had when the rogue jumped him at less than half health.
Or another example from yesterday. I was escorting a level 31 hunter who was flagged with my priestess who was 35 to the Vile Reef. He sees a level 37 tauren shaman fighting off 3 37 to 39 ogres and decides to pull one of the mobs off the Shaman to help him. I rolled my eyes knowing the predictable result. The shaman finished the fights, medded and drank and promptly attacked the level 31 hunter while he was still trying to kill the 37 ogre. But oh how the Shaman ran when he took the full force of my mind blast and I dotted him with SW:P. :whistling:
My rules and these are the rules I lived by when I was on the pvp server in Beta (I got an undead rogue to 43 before end of beta).
+ or - 5 levels and red = dead. Unless they attack me first and its on like Donkey Kong.
Do not attack an opponent who is busy fighting another mob. Sure I spent more time face down in the dirt for extending that courtesy but you don't lead by anything but example.
If you do fight honorably do not desecrate your victim. No spitting, no sitting on their corpses, no cannibalizing. The worst I have ever done was to chain sap a prominent warlock outside of Booty Bay. But I paid for that sin when his friends showed up. I eventually had to log because they were so intent on corpse camping. ;)
Allow your opponent time to med and return to the battle. Corpse camping is unseeming unless they have done it to you.
Group PvP is slightly different in that there will frequently be 2 or 3 on 1 kind of odds. Do your best but do not gank opponents who are trying to re-enter battle.
We have a real problem on Stormrage that the Alliance for so long were so bad with behavior in PvP that many horde have decided to forgo PvP all together. The imbalance has gotten so bad that many of the alliance have re-rolled horde to be able to PvP. But even some of them have seen the brunt end of dishonorable play and are only doing battlegrounds. Group PvP in the wild is very rare and a lot of the reason for it being scarce lies on the shoulders of players who do not play honorably.