Would having a Horde and an Ally online at the same time be against the rules?

[Eteocles]

Aye when I first got my 2nd acct, first thing I did was roll a BE mage on Mag ;p I ran Eteo up to the BE areas once the noob hit 6ish and then started doing the "Tag > MOONFIRELOL" powerlvling bit, got the mage up to frost nova/aoe and started letting eteo Faerie Fire each mob 2-3 times then mass-kill for big exp(FF generates a surprisingly high amount of aggro vs noob dmg at pre-20 lvls); I ran them by setting Autorun since /follow didn't work as you said...trying to steer 2 autorunners at once is interesting, to say the least, and I ran into a bunch of angry mobs more than once ;p

Got it to 21 before I got sick of being bored and alone on horde, sent my money/items through goblin AH, deleted and rerolled the shamen ;p

[Taipan]

Greetings,

Note : this is for PvP servers with open warfare, where players are always overt (vs. covert) in disputed regions.

I agree with the comments above.

As far as I've experienced, Blizzard is quite tolerant with customers paying for two different accounts on the same PvP server (you can't have opposing faction characters on the same account on PvP servers so you need two accounts for that) as long as this isn't exploited for harassing and ganking other players.

The "smart" harassers will do that in stealth mode, logging on their character in your faction to locate you and then use their opposing faction character to "search and destroy" you there.
Hard to prove indeed.

But the "dumb" ones will taunt you through /w. That's when you can report them to a GM and could get them into a temporary ban, though without guaranty of success (and you may have a hard time to check that success too).
I ran though that experience while multi-boxing and reported the guy asap.
Never heard from him again and never got ganked by his opposing faction character either.

/salute

[Ughmahedhurtz]

http://utterwizardry.com/angwe/quotes.htm

So Angwe was just a fluke? I highly doubt it. I do agree that people who are using this mechanic to grief others purely for the sake of griefing aren't violating any technical parts of the ToS. They're violating one of those "spirit of the game" sections that is deliberately vague so that Blizzard can run the asshats out of town on a rail.

[Simulacra]

I was on Jubei'Thos - and had several ally chars there - I bought my first second account and rolled an undead warrior just to check out what horde was all about, I also rolled a new Human pally. So there I was on my pally level 2 and there's this level 10 undead rogue ganking all the low levels including me and I think stuff this I'll go play another char till he gets bored. So I log onto my undead warrior who is now level 10 also and who do I meet on the zep platform an hour later but this rogue and he's going on and on about how much fun it is to gank lowbies in the human starting area. So I say to him wow that sounds like fun tell me when you're going and I'll come too and he says right now so I get off the zep and say damn sorry mate I got some RL to attend to and I log off. Then I log in my NE Level 36 Hunter and go to the human starting area and shadowmeld, needless to say the poor bstard got ganked to hell and back - after he finally left I logged into the horde account and whispered LOL Loser.

I'm pretty sure my violation of the spirit of the game was a lot less than his.

[thinus]

Back before TBC when everyone was farming Cenarion rep in Silithus a gnome mage showed up with ridiculous gear ganking everyone in sight. I was on my rogue so started hunting the mage to help out the victims and turn the tables on the mage. We managed to kill him once or twice but I noticed that the mage seemed to be friendly with some Horde.

So I was sneaking up on the mage from behind and when I was getting close he suddenly frost novad and blinked away. It was pretty obvious then that the other Horde there were telling him where I was. I was extremely pissed off. Turns out that they were on the same vent. I didn't report it at the time but it is completely against the spirit of the game in my opinion.

[sanix]

The "smart" harassers will do that in stealth mode, logging on their character in your faction to locate you and then use their opposing faction character to "search and destroy" you there.
Hard to prove indeed.
/salute

Did this once myself to chase a 55(ish) Belf Paladin across three zones using /who <name> after he ganked my lvl 25(ish) tri-box shammy team wiht my hunter. Once I caught up with him, I pounded him for about 30 minutes. :P

This is why I'll never roll on PVP server, gankers just waste my gaming experience. I don't have that much time to play so being ganked for 30-40 minutes is no fun.

[Simulacra]

I couldn't imagine playing on a PvE server, it would be weird not looking over your shoulder all the time. On a PvE server you wouldn't have that thought of "oh cr@p here comes a level ??" and start running like all get out, instead it would be all roses, bunnies, flower arranging and a big hugfest. There's nothing like the satisfaction of someone trying to gank you and them failing only to receive a /lol and /spit.

PvP puts the WAR in WARCRAFT. Not that I'm opinionated or anything :whistling:

[sanix]

I couldn't imagine playing on a PvE server, it would be weird not looking over your shoulder all the time. On a PvE server you wouldn't have that thought of "oh cr@p here comes a level ??" and start running like all get out, instead it would be all roses, bunnies, flower arranging and a big hugfest. There's nothing like the satisfaction of someone trying to gank you and them failing only to receive a /lol and /spit.

PvP puts the WAR in WARCRAFT. Not that I'm opinionated or anything :whistling:

Actually you can flag yourself all the time if you want.
But as I said, I've been ganked and corpse camped before and it ruins the fun. I don't mind dying but being corpse camped for 30-40 minutes is really annoying.

[Simulacra]

I couldn't imagine playing on a PvE server, it would be weird not looking over your shoulder all the time. On a PvE server you wouldn't have that thought of "oh cr@p here comes a level ??" and start running like all get out, instead it would be all roses, bunnies, flower arranging and a big hugfest. There's nothing like the satisfaction of someone trying to gank you and them failing only to receive a /lol and /spit.

PvP puts the WAR in WARCRAFT. Not that I'm opinionated or anything :whistling:

Actually you can flag yourself all the time if you want.
But as I said, I've been ganked and corpse camped before and it ruins the fun. I don't mind dying but being corpse camped for 30-40 minutes is really annoying.

Yep it can be really annoying - especially when you're minding your own business and some S3 epic geared Dest Lock dismounts from his Netherwing 3 shots you again and again and again :cursing: . I guess I've been reasonably lucky gank wise, although at times I've had the urge to transfer to PvE inch: . I noticed on some webby census site that the 4 highest pop servers were PvE. Barthilas was the highest PvP server coming in at 5th overall hence my rerolling there. I might roll a char on a PvE and find out what it's all about.

So multiboxers what PvE servers are you on?

[Stealthy]

I couldn't imagine playing on a PvE server, it would be weird not looking over your shoulder all the time. On a PvE server you wouldn't have that thought of "oh cr@p here comes a level ??" and start running like all get out, instead it would be all roses, bunnies, flower arranging and a big hugfest. There's nothing like the satisfaction of someone trying to gank you and them failing only to receive a /lol and /spit.

PvP puts the WAR in WARCRAFT. Not that I'm opinionated or anything :whistling:

Actually you can flag yourself all the time if you want.
But as I said, I've been ganked and corpse camped before and it ruins the fun. I don't mind dying but being corpse camped for 30-40 minutes is really annoying.

Yep it can be really annoying - especially when you're minding your own business and some S3 epic geared Dest Lock dismounts from his Netherwing 3 shots you again and again and again :cursing: . I guess I've been reasonably lucky gank wise, although at times I've had the urge to transfer to PvE inch: . I noticed on some webby census site that the 4 highest pop servers were PvE. Barthilas was the highest PvP server coming in at 5th overall hence my rerolling there. I might roll a char on a PvE and find out what it's all about.

So multiboxers what PvE servers are you on?

I agree ganking & corpse capming can be annoying, but it really only seems to occur when levelling. Once you hit 70, it's a whole different ball game. Then you are the one doing the ganking and corpse camping. And if you want to level and another set of toons, just park your 70 team close by in case anyone tries to mess with you.

The only problem I have is with stealth...you need to wait for rogues & druids to make the 1st move, which can be annoying. But apart from that, I love playing on a PvP server...wouldn't have it any other way