What possesses someone to.......

[Ektomorf]

Camp me for 8 hours...

I ask this because today I logged on my 3s and was questing when around 1pm I get attacked by a 70 hunter whilst attacking mobs, I naturally kill him and go on. About 10 minutes later whilst 75% dead from mobs he attacks me and kills me. No big deal this happens alot, tried to rez but the 70 hunter was camping me. Half dozen more rez attempts and more camping I decide to log off and go out.

Came back an hour later logged in, rez and he was still there waiting, killed me again.Righteo I thought, another 4 attempts at rezzing I logged out and went and did the washing =[ Came back about 2 hours later, rezzed and he was still there. I thought you gotta be kidding me wtf Logged out yet again and went and watched TV. Came back hour later and he was still there so I decided to see how long he would be waiting and decided to log in every hour and see.
It is now 9pm here and he still there. Its not like hes AFK'ing because everytime I rez he comes out of hiding amd kills me.
I know PVP happens on a PVP server but.....WTF possesses someone to do that? There's no bot that allows someone to do this is there?

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Jubei%27Thos&n=Yahsmash > my quest greens =[

[Ken]

1) Face your characters in the opposite direction.
2) Resurrect.
3) Press the autorun button (so that your characters start running away from each other)
4) Repeat until both characters are far away from each other and possibly hide behind something while the warrior attacks 1 of them.
5) Resurrect and use hearthstone.
6) Invite a warlock to your group, resurrect and summon. Or go to a summoning stone and summon yourself. Of course this only works when the warrior doesn't kill you within 10 seconds or so :P Try to crowd-control him as long as possible when this is the case.

[Ektomorf]

1) Face your characters in the opposite direction.
2) Resurrect.
3) Press the autorun button (so that your characters start running away from each other)
4) Repeat until both characters are far away from each other and possibly hide behind something while the warrior attacks 1 of them.
5) Resurrect and use hearthstone.
6) Invite a warlock to your group, resurrect and summon. Or go to a summoning stone and summon yourself. Of course this only works when the warrior doesn't kill you within 10 seconds or so :P Try to crowd-control him as long as possible when this is the case.
Problem is lvl 70 + multishot + low level = 1 shotted. If im lucky enough to survive the one. His pet or him finish me off in 2-3 seconds :(I tried fearing him etc etc but he resisted everytime :(

[Signal7]

Camp me for 8 hours...

I ask this because today I logged on my 3s and was questing when around 1pm I get attacked by a 70 hunter whilst attacking mobs, I naturally kill him and go on. About 10 minutes later whilst 75% dead from mobs he attacks me and kills me. No big deal this happens alot, tried to rez but the 70 hunter was camping me. Half dozen more rez attempts and more camping I decide to log off and go out.

Came back an hour later logged in, rez and he was still there waiting, killed me again.Righteo I thought, another 4 attempts at rezzing I logged out and went and did the washing =[ Came back about 2 hours later, rezzed and he was still there. I thought you gotta be kidding me wtf Logged out yet again and went and watched TV. Came back hour later and he was still there so I decided to see how long he would be waiting and decided to log in every hour and see.
It is now 9pm here and he still there. Its not like hes AFK'ing because everytime I rez he comes out of hiding amd kills me.
I know PVP happens on a PVP server but.....WTF possesses someone to do that? There's no bot that allows someone to do this is there?

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Jubei%27Thos&n=Yahsmash > my quest greens =[It's possible you ran into a botter who has their bot set up for PvP functions. Certain bots like Glider and PocketGnome can detect and attack other players if set up right, but the odds of the bot being in your rez spot everytime you logged in would be pretty slim unless that botter was running a profile that didn't stray from the area he found you at. Odds are you just ran into a some tool with nothing to do till WotLK hits.

[zanthor]

Turn 180 degree's.. talk to the large angel... take the hit.

Go somewhere else.

[KvdM]

Ken's tactic won't prevent him from killing you, but it will prevent him from camping you. He will only be able to kill you the first couple of tries. After three to four attempts, your characters will be so far apart that he can't camp all of them at the same time. He'll either have to run from corps to corps or camp one of your corpses. If he tries try running between the corpses, just ress the chars that he isn't at and heartstone. If he tries to camp one specific character, either group your other chars and kill him again or use the grave yard to ress that one char. Although a grave yard ress will give that char ress sickness, your other chars should have enough dps left to continue playing.

It takes a bit of practice, but mastering this tactic will allow you to escape almost any corps camp.

[Ken]

KvdM actually tought me that tactic :)
We have succesfully used it back when we were level 30 or so. At a certain point, 2 level 70s were corpse camping his 1 shaman while the other 4 were roaming around looking for alliance. That was awesome.

[Tynk]

1) Face your characters in the opposite direction.
2) Resurrect.
3) Press the autorun button (so that your characters start running away from each other)
4) Repeat until both characters are far away from each other and possibly hide behind something while the warrior attacks 1 of them.
5) Resurrect and use hearthstone.
6) Invite a warlock to your group, resurrect and summon. Or go to a summoning stone and summon yourself. Of course this only works when the warrior doesn't kill you within 10 seconds or so :P Try to crowd-control him as long as possible when this is the case.I have a single macro that pops and rezes

/script RepopMe ('http://www.wowwiki.com/API_RepopMe')() **Releases**
/script RetrieveCorpse ('http://www.wowwiki.com/API_RetrieveCorpse')() **Accepts rez at corpse**

just let's you accept the rez instantly on all your characters. Would help with this strat.

[homerjunior]

The point to this thread is why would someone do it, Not how to prevent it

[Schwarz]

Ok get someone around your level or maybe an alt around your level to queue you to a bg. This way you get rezed as soon as you join the battle. You get away from the person so they can't camp you any more.

[EvilSqueegee]

The point to this thread is why would someone do it, Not how to prevent itSignal7's post was really all there is to it.

[Ken]

The point to this thread is why would someone do it, Not how to prevent it

So that means we aren't allowed to give tips/hints on how to handle such a situation? o_O

[Hachoo]

Yeah seriously...

If you would sit and res 10-20 times only to get murdered again over the course of 3+ hours instead of just ressing at the healer, waiting 10 minutes for sickness to go away and paying a small sum to repair your gear...sounds like you have just as much spare time as the guy killing you.

Not like we can tell you why he would do that, we don't know him. I'm sure hes a teenager with no friends that doesn't have much to do besides sit in front of the computer. Possibly he was just watching TV the whole time and just noticed whenever you ressed and killed you. He could have been doing homework, reading a book, etc, though the latter things are less likely.

Either way, you're a serious glutton for punishment. If I get camped more than twice I res at the healer.

[homerjunior]

The point to this thread is why would someone do it, Not how to prevent it

So that means we aren't allowed to give tips/hints on how to handle such a situation? o_OI doubt he did not know how to res at a spirit healer that is all

[blast3r]

That guy is a multibox hater. I get those every so often but more times than not I end up killing them and camping them back. What you should do is just rez at grave, hearth and then 10 minutes later go back and camp his ass. Or get some others to help you and even camp the grave and make him log off.

[Tynk]

The point to this thread is why would someone do it, Not how to prevent itI do apologize for that, however, as an excuse I will use the excuse that as a hobbyist coder I tend to look to finding a resolution to problems presented to me.
Empathy may have been expected response, but with out expressly requesting it you can not fault us.

[Sarduci]

If he instantly kills you over and over when you rez over the course of 8 hours and only moves to kill you, that sounds like someone needs to open a botting report.

[Svpernova09]

If he instantly kills you over and over when you rez over the course of 8 hours and only moves to kill you, that sounds like someone needs to open a botting report.No, if it was a botter the bot would have gone back to reading its path / profile killing mobs on its course. Also its very unlikely that a 70 would be botting in common questing area out of fear of discovery. Sounds more like a douche bag than a botter.

[Spatulor]

If nothing else, you can take solace from the knowledge that you went out, did the washing, and watched tv, while he.....camped you.The odd time i get camped that I don't wanna go to the spirit healer, I'll wait at my corpse as a ghost for hours if need be, reading a book or something, jumping occasionally to prevent afk.

Or I ask for 70's to help me, wait until the camper is distracted fighting them, and join in. That works fairly well too.

[dwaine]

Reguardless of why they are doing it REPORT them. That is harrassment and should be stopped with extreeme predjudice.

[TheBigBB]

This sort of behavior bothers me so much that I moved to a PVE server over it. If he actually waited for 8 hours online then he probably is mentally ill, but there are ways that he could have known you were back online without actively playing the game the whole time. For example, having an alt on your faction with you on his buddy list. Either way, a lot of people out there have issues, and surely this person is one of them.

[Multibocks]

If he instantly kills you over and over when you rez over the course of 8 hours and only moves to kill you, that sounds like someone needs to open a botting report.No, if it was a botter the bot would have gone back to reading its path / profile killing mobs on its course. Also its very unlikely that a 70 would be botting in common questing area out of fear of discovery. Sounds more like a douche bag than a botter.

No there are botter pvp programs out there that you can have it stand in one place and auto kill the person. However this is very suspicious activity and will(should) be noticed right away and threatens to get person banned. I know we are not supposed to talk about botting here, but trust me I have seen some very good stuff in botting.

[hardcoded]

If nothing else, you can take solace from the knowledge that you went out, did the washing, and watched tv, while he.....camped you.
Does nobody else use a spirit healer to res in these cases? Or switch to another team?

I do have to admit having a sandwich while people camp me is entertaining though.

[Lilith]

Had a hunter camping me and my bro in 60 :P we killed him twice then he followed us on flying mount until 1 was lowed killed him and ran away:P was camping us 2 houers^^
Reason he did it was that it was more horde than alliance on the server so he was running around killing lowbies^^

[heffner]

I don't mind fair play, but holy smokes, 8+ hours of corpse camping? That person is seriously disturbed. AFAIK that would be considered harassment and is a reportable offense (based on a GM response I read on the official forums regarding a similar issue - I don't know if there is an official written policy though).

Someone needs to create a "Goons for Hire" guild....

[Nachtkinder]

I fail to see how this would be harassment. You always had the option to Spirit Res.

Now, if he was camping the Spirit then I could understand.

I agree with it probably being a bot btw. It's stupidly simply to set up a program like glider to do what he did just to screw with you.

[Bettysue]

Corpse camping is not reportable on a pvp server...says somewhere in one of the descriptions of pvp servers that it does and will happen so "bring a friend." Camping people for 30min or so is fun sometimes, 8hours is some sort of sick dedication I can't match. Maybe he is part of "goons for hire" and was hired to camp you :P

[elsegundo]

guys are problem solvers. so its no surprise that most of the replies in this thread was a suggestion on how to solve the problem.

sorry dude. i'd just get my 70's and my guildies and camp him.

[heffner]

Yes, generally that is probably true. But if it's deemed excessive I believe it is "frowned upon" and I am sure they could take some action. The thread I read, which was linked from this site - sorry I don't know have the link to the thread-, described someone following around a MBer all day and trying to kill them. The GM stated it would be considered harassment. I am thinking 8 hours of camping would fall under that category. Of course, the spirit rez is a good counter argument and I would have to agree with you on that.

The person could be a dual/multi boxer too. You could easily solo play on one toon while the other just sits there watching and waiting to kick your arse.

[jettzypher]

people are just assholes...thats why i refuse to play on pvp servers. idc if people consider pve realms weak or not, ive got better things to do than worry about whether im gonna get ganked when im not even bothering anyone.

[pinotnoir]

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1) Face your characters in the opposite direction.
2) Resurrect.
3) Press the autorun button (so that your characters start running away from each other)
4) Repeat until both characters are far away from each other and possibly hide behind something while the warrior attacks 1 of them.
5) Resurrect and use hearthstone.
6) Invite a warlock to your group, resurrect and summon. Or go to a summoning stone and summon yourself. Of course this only works when the warrior doesn't kill you within 10 seconds or so :P Try to crowd-control him as long as possible when this is the case.I have a single macro that pops and rezes

/script RepopMe ('http://www.wowwiki.com/API_RepopMe')() **Releases**
/script RetrieveCorpse ('http://www.wowwiki.com/API_RetrieveCorpse')() **Accepts rez at corpse**

just let's you accept the rez instantly on all your characters. Would help with this strat.

I put those in my accept trade ect.. macro so 1 macro does it all.

[Tdog]

The point to this thread is why would someone do it, Not how to prevent itThat's like asking why is the sky blue....Because it's f 'ing EMO!!!

[hotdogsrgross]

I have had a guy camp me for 4 hours straight. I just played a single box as my 6th client, and had it going through keyclone so that every movement/spell/jump was mimiced by my boxers. That way, they didn't log out. He sat there for 4 hours, waiting to rez kill. I did my daily quests and grinded some honor. :)

[hotdogsrgross]

people are just assholes...thats why i refuse to play on pvp servers. idc if people consider pve realms weak or not, ive got better things to do than worry about whether im gonna get ganked when im not even bothering anyone.I enjoy PvP servers for just that reason. Where is the challenge in killing AI? I like killing the AI while watching for PvP opportunities. Risk vs. Reward.

[Fizzler]

The point to this thread is why would someone do it, Not how to prevent itThat's like asking why is the sky blue....Because it's f 'ing EMO!!!

I thought it was because of Rayleigh Scattering?

[Vicker]

The point to this thread is why would someone do it, Not how to prevent itThat's like asking why is the sky blue....Because it's f 'ing EMO!!!

I thought it was because of Rayleigh Scattering?

I like this guy. I wonder if he recognizes the names of my characters...

[jettzypher]

that's like asking why is the sky bluethe sky is blue because god loves the infantry.


I enjoy PvP servers for just that reason. Where is the challenge in killing AI? I like killing the AI while watching for PvP opportunities.its all personall preferenece. if i decide i want to beat up hordies, then ill flag myself or queue in for a BG. if i dont want to do pvp, then i shouldnt have to bend to the will of someone else who does. i had my fun with pvp, i did it all the time before they changed to the new system (i then got pissed cause all the work i was doin had been lost imo), and it was fulfillng. but since i never played much during BC (until recently), the time i spent doin heroics and raids were more than enough of a challenge for me to be happy and feel accomplished with myself.


Risk vs. Rewardand raiding has better rewards than pvp anyways.

[Gadzooks]

There's PvP, then there's someone being a complete asshat. It's most likely some whiner who hates multi-boxing, he's probably hur hurring his lame butt off in Guild chat the whole time.

The GMs in the CSF have said that while pvp on a pvp server is something they don't interfere with, you *can* cross the line, and this guy did after hour one. This goes way beyond griefing, it's firmly in harrassment territory.

Lodge a complaint, *keep* your toons there, until a GM responds to you in the game, tell him what's going on, and let the GM watch what happens. If the asshat is using PvP bots, buh bye asshat. If he's just being an asshat, the GM will sort him out.

This isn't so much a "support your fellow multi-boxer" issue as much as it is a "get rid of the jerks in the game" thing. I canceled my accounts because I hit the wall, when it came to the idiots who infest this game now. The community is killing this game, it's nothing but harrassment, insults in any chat channel, anal spam, botters, griefers, and children who like to trash talk and curse.

I *might* be back. I'm still deciding. I'm waiting out the Wrath release insanity, because I knew it was going to be bad - and it's been worse than I thought. Starting tonight, don't plan on getting much done, be grateful if you can even log into your server!

IF I come back, I'm going zero-tolerance for jerks. I put up with a lot of crap before, but if I return, every single one of them will be reported, and I will report players until the GMs tell me to stop.

[Multibocks]

With the new PvP zone in Lich King there really is no point to PvP servers. Want to world PvP? Go to Lake Wintergrasp. Want to level in peace? Don't go to Wintergrasp. In fact if they allow Magtheridon a free transfer off to PvE I will take it in a heartbeat. If it didnt cost so much money they would have been moved long ago.

[Tdog]

Pretty much everything in this thread is exactly why I don't play on a PVP server. It's fun for about the first few days then it just gets annoying as hell.

[elsegundo]

guys are problem solvers. so its no surprise that most of the replies in this thread was a suggestion on how to solve the problem.

sorry dude. i'd just get my 70's and my guildies and camp him.

Thats not always an option. Great way to NOT think outside the box though.thanks.

but im sure everyone knows its not always an option.



Pretty much everything in this thread is exactly why I don't play on a PVP server. It's fun for about the first few days then it just gets annoying as hell.
yea that's one thing. but i do enjoy the incertainty of playing in a pvp server and, though i get my butt kicked sometimes by groups of people, i do find having the option to attack an opposing faction's member in any contested territory an awesome facet to the game. i sometimes wonder why there are factions without forced open world pvp.

[Hachoo]

With the new PvP zone in Lich King there really is no point to PvP servers. Want to world PvP? Go to Lake Wintergrasp. Want to level in peace? Don't go to Wintergrasp. In fact if they allow Magtheridon a free transfer off to PvE I will take it in a heartbeat. If it didnt cost so much money they would have been moved long ago.This is exactly why so many people that play on PvE servers have no idea why those of us that enjoy PvP play on PvP servers.

Why would I want to ONLY be able to PvP by going to Lake Wintergrasp? How is this different then ONLY being able to PvP by entering any other battleground?

I want UNPLANNED PvP - the kind that happens when NEITHER side is necessarily thinking about PvPing at that moment. This happens, for instance, when I'm out questing, and I see an alliance out questing, and I decide I'm going to kill him. Or when I'm fighting a mob, and an alliance attacks me, and I have a chance to own him and then still get the kill on my mob - THIS is why I like being on a PvP server. I don't care that ganking comes along with it, its part of the thrill whether I'm on the sending or receiving end.

I can't stand it when people say "XXXX is why PvP servers don't need to exist". People who say this really have no idea what the point of a PvP server is. Hint: Its not to be forced to PvP in a single zone, location, instance, battleground, or whatever.

[Multibocks]

ok well we got your take on it, thanks.

[elsegundo]

which is why blizz have pvp servers and normal servers. different strokes for different folks and you're able to play whichever you choose.

but... what i dont understand are those that roll pvp, get ganked, then complain about it like its not supposed to happen. :rolleyes:

[TheBigBB]

people are just assholes...thats why i refuse to play on pvp servers. idc if people consider pve realms weak or not, ive got better things to do than worry about whether im gonna get ganked when im not even bothering anyone.I enjoy PvP servers for just that reason. Where is the challenge in killing AI? I like killing the AI while watching for PvP opportunities. Risk vs. Reward.Ironically, the area of WoW which multiboxers haven't been able to scratch is the cutting edge PVE raiding.