I grew up so to speak on a PvP server. Originally on Arthas then took the first ever free transfer wave to Nathrezim. This was way way back in the day when blizz hadn't implemented anything to prevent unfair/unwarranted PvP. The goblin town guards wouldn't attack you if you PvPed, there was no rule against rooftop ganking with a ranged class. PvP happened constantly, I never went a night without being killed at least a dozen times while leveling my first toon (a rogue). Yep, even being a rogue with the lovely stealth ability, people would still kill me in the neutral towns, or friendly towns if they were higher level than the guards, and catch me out in the open when I was fighting mob(s).

That lasted til about spring of '08, so almost four years of having a PvP server as my main server. Then I'd finally had enough, I had friends playing horde on a PvE realm and I switched. Now Shadowsong is my home and horde is my faction. I still have many of my original alliance toons, some have been transferred to other friends' servers, some have been deleted, but my original trio of rogue/priest/warrior still exists. The warrior went to Hydraxis-PvE when one of my friends and his wife transferred all nine of their toons because they got fedup with doing dailies on the "horde territory" Isle of Quel'Danas. The rogue and priest are still on Nathrezim. I did come back and level the rogue to 80 and do a handful of PUG raids to get some purpz, but the priest has been parked at L66 for ages and since I got fedup with crappy PUGs the rogue lies forgotten and gathering dust.

She's my original WOW toon with over 120 days /played, most of that at L60 (used to be a hardcore 40-man raider back in the day), and now she's a mediocre-geared 80 rogue that can barely make the top 10 on a 25-man PUG's dps meter lol.


I'm done with PvP. If I ever want to play the rogue again I'm gonna transfer her to Hydraxis as well where my friend and his wife play, along with the priest. Nathrezim is over for me. I prefer the relaxed environment of a PvE server far too much now that I've gotten used to it.


But as for the main topic, my rogue was probably one of the least-likely-to-gank-you tier2-geared L60's on the server back in the day. I had a private KOS list, which included about 5 horde players plus one entire guild (my raiding guild and their raiding guild were perma-at war, constantly getting involved in 40v40 action at raid gathering spots like Thorium Point, BRM, AQ gates, etc). I generally left the horde alone. If I was leveling a lowbie and a higher level player attacked and camped and griefed them bad enough, I'd bring the rogue out and show them how tough a tier2 geared rogue was.

I got attacked alot while farming with the rogue, but had the benefit of being full tier2-epicced (back in the days before resilience and actual "pvp gear"), so I could usually annihilate whoever attacked me without breaking a sweat (since back then most 60's had a mix of greens and blues, fully-raid geared toons like me were probably only 10% of the server and most raid guilds left each other alone, except for some of the at-war cases like I described)

I do have some fond memories of the big 40v40 fights our raid guilds got involved in, ambushing each other, fighting for control of the MC/BWL/AQ zone-in area or wherever the flight path deposited people straggling in like Thorium Point, etc.