My macro caused some pvp hate

[elsegundo]

well i took my warlock out to do some world questing in outland to take a break from boxing for a bit and came across an ally DK who helped me kill a mob. wonderful. i figured i can help them back... so i tried and ended up attacking the DK. lol. killed him when i saw his goul attacking me. only after i killed him did i realize my macros dont work if im helping an enemy player. here goes...

/cast [target=focustarget, harm] [target=targettarget, harm] [] Corruption


so i didnt have a focus, but you can see that the second part of my macro will target the ally. =/
i guess i wont be helping any allies from now on.

[emesis]

LOL yeah I've been there. Was farming thorium in Silithus in the hives and came across an opposite faction DK around level 60 who had bitten off more than he could chew; he'd aggrod like 6 bugs or so. So, I thought I'd help the poor guy out by chain lightninging the bugs for him. Whoops. He must have thought I was a pretty poor sport ganking him when he was in a fight for like and I was skull to him. I was honestly just trying to help - but not thinking very clearly. :-)

[TheBigBB]

He should reroll PVE if he cares. I care about this stuff and that was my solution. Don't worry about it.

[Caspian]

^ ^ What he said. If you are on a PvP server it is your duty to kill the opposing faction whenever you see them. More importantly you should steal their kills, loot, nodes (especially mines while you still can). All of those go to help the opposite faction - which will help them get the gear they need to kill you. YOU MUST TAKE IT FROM THEM.

I rolled PvE because that's where my family was. But I am glad I did, ganking and being ganked would destroy my brain when I was on a personal mission to get something done. That said, if I see you flagged I will attack you, multi toon single toon no matter what - even if I lose I will go down trying. I will also ninja every node or kill I can from you if you are Alliance. This is doubally true after meeting the king of stormwind for the first time and seeing what a jackass Arthas was even before he became the Litch King.

Myabe I should be on a RP server - hmmm.

[Powerwar]

I play on a PvP server and my rule of thumb is that if someone from the opposing faction targets whatever toon from my group he gets a sudden death with no warning. They don't need to start atacking me. With targeting one of my toons I consider it enough reason to grant them a corpse run.
If they don't target me but still stay close I just thunderstorm them once. If they run again to my group they die.
If I am doing whatever quest and they are tapping my quest resources (mobs, collection items, whatever...), they die.
If I see someone from the opposing faction flying around me I just CL + flameshock him. This grants him usually GY res because they tend to fly higher while my flameshocks finish them in the air.

If I see one alliance fighting one horde guy I let them kill each other and usually /cheer at the winner.

I rolled on a PvP server since WOW release 4 years ago, so I have had enough time to learn that pvp means IF IT'S RED IT'S DEAD!

[Caspian]

IF IT'S RED IT'S DEAD!

as it should be.

[Tonuss]

Myabe I should be on a RP server - hmmm.

No, I think you have the right idea/attitude for a PvP server. I rolled PvP initially because that is where my friends made their characters and they really enjoy PvP. I don't, I never have and never will. I'm not the type to gank people or initiate PvP, so I was always at a disadvantage. When my friends went to play Warhammer (ironically, on a PvE server) I moved my WoW toons to a PvE server and haven't looked back.

But I just don't understand the attitudes of a lot of people who roll PvP. Some of them may be like me, preferring not to PvP when they are trying to get something specific done, or preferring not to attack a player that is minding his/her business. But so many of the angry threads on any WoW forum are of the "WTF WHY DID YOU ATTACK ME THAT WAS WRONG BRO" type, and I just don't get it. What part of PvP server did these people not understand? PvP servers are the choice for people who want to be able to attack you at any time, and who love the excitement that comes with possibly being attacked at any time. I think that if you're not willing to accept that, then the PvE servers are------> thataway.

As a non-PvPer who never whined about it, it always gets me when people whine about it. Even worse was watching some of my own guild mates cry in guild chat. The same people who were the reason I rolled PvP, and who kept telling me how awesome it was and how much they loved it... they were the biggest crybabies. "OH FUCK NO THAT BASTARD GANKED ME WHERE IS MY RAZOR cut cut cut" That shit drove me crazy sometimes, geez.

[Siaea]

I've started using VanosKOS now that I'm 80, and every scoundrel that ganked me while leveling is on it (I had a notepad full 'o names

Well, I found out something interesting last night at Ebon Hold: You don't lose faction when you kill those guards. I've done it 3 times now, and it seems to be right.

[Malekyth]

My trouble with PvP servers is that it doesn't have to be this way. Why spend all our time fighting when we could invest a tenth of that effort to sit down around a table and talk? In a world with infinite resources, conjurable provisions and effective immortality, surely we could find some common ground and work out the most intractable problems between our factions, e.g. legal partition of Ashenvale and demilitarization of Warsong Gulch; an agreement with the Royal Apothecary Society to cease its support for the insurgency in Hillsbrad in return for a standing-down of the outer guard perimeter at Southshore; a joint venture between the Horde and Ironforge to create a tram connecting the Undercity to Stonard via Kargath, creating jobs and reducing tensions through Dun Morogh and the Wetlands. Where reasonable people will take the time to talk with other reasonable people, the possibilities are endless.

[Rin]

My trouble with PvP servers is that it doesn't have to be this way. Why spend all our time fighting when we could invest a tenth of that effort to sit down around a table and talk? In a world with infinite resources, conjurable provisions and effective immortality, surely we could find some common ground and work out the most intractable problems between our factions, e.g. legal partition of Ashenvale and demilitarization of Warsong Gulch; an agreement with the Royal Apothecary Society to cease its support for the insurgency in Hillsbrad in return for a standing-down of the outer guard perimeter at Southshore; a joint venture between the Horde and Ironforge to create a tram connecting the Undercity to Stonard via Kargath, creating jobs and reducing tensions through Dun Morogh and the Wetlands. Where reasonable people will take the time to talk with other reasonable people, the possibilities are endless.

This is only a game, not real life. :P