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when people choose to play on a PvP server (i use the term "PvP server" loosely in WoW), you have to accept that there will be times when youll be ganked, griefed, etc. compared to true PvP games WoW is relatively grief-proof.
during the shadowbane beta a player in my first guild planted row upon row upon row of houses along the border of the first newbie town and the zone where all the mobs are. he spent millions and hours of his time planting hundreds of little wooden shacks. the way shadowbane worked, you load objects, buildings, etc, only when they come into view. he basically sat there for 2 days camping the rows of houses, that he had already loaded.. waiting for newbies to come out and lag up loading all the junk so he could kill them and loot their cash. eventually a GM had to come and delete the houses because there was no way anyone could get through to level up without dying.
so.. from my perspective.. WoW is pretty tame =)
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This is a question I've only recently had to ask, since I've started a 5 man Priest team on a PvP server just for kicks.
The approach I'm taking is to pretty much leave people alone unless they start something, or if they're obviously ganking lowbies, and to use a KoS mod to track those who no longer deserve the benefit of my doubt!
It's early days, but it seems to be working quite well so far, and since I've always had this damn conscience thing about killing people in one-sided fights, it helps me sleep at night (figuratively speaking ;) ).
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I ganked a paladin one day with my 5 shaman group while I was out questing and then the guys 70 warlock showed up and 1 shotted my group. I brought my lock out and camped him for a bit :) PvP is never fair!
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After having all 5 of my 21s rolled up by a ?? hunter the other night, I will have zero compunction about ganking the snot out of alliance. And a bunch of other alliance are always trying to make me accidentally flag. Ya pays yer money and ya takes yer chances. :P
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So, I was in the barrens questing at lvl 23 & decided to run to the great lift to get the flight path for 1k needles.
I ran across two "??" alliance dueling at the Summoning stone to RFD.
4x Fireballs, & a few AOE's later, no more allies. Armory for thier names indicated Lvl 42 & 44.
Evil yes,,, Feel Guilty No.
This is what I bought WOW for.
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I don't think its "evil" per se.
I get ganked alot, but I choose not to gank myself. Especially to the point of corpse camping. I know its part of the game, if you dont like to reroll PVE bla bla, I just choose not to do it myself. I dont whine and moan when I'm getting camped, but personally I would never do it to somebody else without a ridiculously good reason.
With this sort of attitude its surprising how many people don't fight me either! My original toon was a 70 gnome warlock on a PVE server. I still play him, but I wanted to experience PVP so I rerolled. I still like a good fight from time to time, but I prefer not to initiate them. You never know, its an old server I play on, which character is just a 40 'alt' with his 70 gnome rogue parked in the zone. Its happened to me on occasion, so now I just ignore world PVP and get on with my leveling. I'm pretty good at PVP, I win almost every encounter in the field. But I try not to start them myself, and mostly we just ignore eachother and continue our questing.
I think my attitude my change at 70 though, but for now I just want to get there. You'll still never find me corpse camping anybody, or hunting lowbies in tarren mill etc...but I might start a LOT of wars against 70s in the elemental plateau and places like that (70 farming zones). Ganking lowbies is just bad sport imo, pick a fair fight, thats why I rolled PVP. I know unfair fights are part of it, but you dont have to go down to that level for the sole reason that you "can".
