What do you do when you're at a neutral town and you get attacked?

[knopstr]

It's terribly frustrating when a mage is pummeling your team and if you fight back, the damn guards kill you. I had at least 4 enemy players take a dislike to my 77 team at the new Nessingway place in Scholozar last night. I threw down mana totems and healed my way through the onslaught twice but eventually I got tired of this and after I chased a couple down and toasted them they just kept coming back until I logged out. What do you do when this happens? Is it worth petitioning Blizz to ask for the guards to not shoot you if you aren't the initial aggressor?

[Bovidae]

That would be a suggestion for the forums, a petition could do nothing.

[glo]

The same thing you do if you are not boxing. You find a way to kill them or move to a different area.

[reman]

I don't think they can just flip a switch and the guards wouldn't shoot you anymore. That would be the "WhosYourDaddy" mode. On a more serious note, there are jerks everywhere on a pvp server. Think of it as a goal to lvl/gear/skill up to whop these guys asses. at least that's how I deal with it when I get annoyed by these guys.

[Bigfish]

Is it worth petitioning Blizz to ask for the guards to not shoot you if you aren't the initial aggressor?

No. There's nothing a petition is going to do about guard functionality. A more appriopriate course of action would be to report the aggressor's for exploitation in avoiding guard reprisal. Assuming of course that they weren't dealing with the guards themselves.

[Siaea]

I just leave, they just want you to attack and take dura. When I'm attacked by anyone, they go on my kill list, to be 1-shotted later.

Had a funny thing happen in Conquest Hold last night. My 4 shaman were there waiting for my DK to get there from TB after training maces. There was an 80 priest attacking people from the top of the hold, usually killing them (that's a level 74ish town). I flew them up there and killed her (and her waiting rogue friend), losing a shaman in the process. Well, she rezzes and flies off, and I park my girls inside. This priest is LOSing the stairs to dot me up and stay out of guard range. Well, my DK gets there finally, and manages to get a deathgrip on her, right into the Horde guards. She proceeded to be one-shotted

Didn't see her there again that night 8)

[glo]

Is it worth petitioning Blizz to ask for the guards to not shoot you if you aren't the initial aggressor?

No. There's nothing a petition is going to do about guard functionality. A more appriopriate course of action would be to report the aggressor's for exploitation in avoiding guard reprisal. Assuming of course that they weren't dealing with the guards themselves.

In outlands or northrend avoiding guards is not a reportable offense at all. Any GM will tell you there is a pvp solution and have a nice day. Why would you want to report someone for pvp on a pvp server anyway? That is what you sign up for when you make a character on that type of server, if you want to occasionally pvp when you are in the mood you roll pve. You either move away from the guards to a position you can return fire with the guards ganking you or you move to a position where the attacker cannot hit you without aggroing the guards or you move to an entirely different area to quest.

[knopstr]

No. The mage in question would stand out of range of the guards and fire volley after volley of some kind of ice/fireball (never leveled a mage past 40) that would turn me blue and slow me down. I appreciate the quick responses.

So, it's appropriate in this matter to report them for exploitation. Hmmm...I thought I was just shit out of luck on my PVP server. I did fight back. I just got tired of it after a while.

Thanks all.

[glo]

No. The mage in question would stand out of range of the guards and fire volley after volley of some kind of ice/fireball (never leveled a mage past 40) that would turn me blue and slow me down. I appreciate the quick responses.

So, it's appropriate in this matter to report them for exploitation. Hmmm...I thought I was just shit out of luck on my PVP server. I did fight back. I just got tired of it after a while.

Thanks all.

Trust me, it's not an exploit and reporting will get you absolutely nowhere.

[Vyndree]

What to do?

Don't fight back. They want to watch you get squished. So either go somewhere else (with higher level guards, perhaps?), log off for a while (to waste the other person's time), or just grin and bear it...



Write their name down or use a addon like VanasKOS to remember them, and when you're the same level make sure the guy gets a taste of his own medicine.


PvP servers enable bullies. It's not reportable, because it's part of the "PvP experience". You have to find a friend big enough to fight the bully for you, or you have to wait until you're big enough to do it yourself. That's the only advantage of a PvP server -- starting combat with other players at any time, any where, with or without consequence. If you don't like that sort of system, PvE servers allow people to flag themselves for combat if and only if they want to participate. You'd be able to avoid this problem entirely.