June 24th 2009 09:29 am
INTERLUDE POST: PvP IS NOT A LICENSE TO GANK
Why am I writing this? Because for the nth time in my life I got ganked by dem Allies.
Like 20 minutes ago.
I have many toons. More than half are on PvE servers. Leveling on PvE is a cinch. Try leveling on PvP where everyone - yes, including YOU and ME - is fair game and getting ganked is on the daily menu.
I play on PvP to get a taste of the Ally-Horde tension. I accept the fact that I will get attacked by the opposing faction.
But what I will never find acceptable is ganking and camping on the corpse of a toon that’s 20 levels below you.
Because it is unfair, cruel and pointless. It is akin to a seventh grader beating up a nursery school kid.
Where’s the honor in picking on someone that has absolutely no fighting chance against you and your additional 20 levels? What’s so great about beating up babies? What, can’t handle those at your own level? Ha! Loser! Gutless coward! Tropical-drink-with-the-little-umbrella-sipping SOB!
And these bullies get pissed when the nursery school toon’s level 80 buddies hunt them down and camp on their corpse? (Which is what happened when I called on Remus, Cletus, Alvin and a couple more guildies to save me. Picture five level 80 DKs with AoD raining vendetta on a lvl 68 Gnome Hunter, a 72 Human Pally, a 64 Human Rogue and a 63 Draenei Priest. Not a pretty sight.)
Yes, you read that right. A 68 Gnome Hunter*, a 72 Human Pally, a 64 Human Rogue and a 63 Draenei Priest ganked, abused, and corpse-camped my 49 Orc Warrior.
“Don’t take it so seriously, it’s only a game,” says the people who think that ganking victims are just a bunch of QQers.
I beg to differ. WoW may be a game where virtual beings kill and get killed, but that virtual world still commands that we act with consideration for others. While I raid and kill and do the occasional BG, I would never attack an Ally toon that’s many, many levels below me and that’s minding its own business. Hell, I even “/wave” at it as I run past it. ‘Cause like I said, where’s the honor in killing a helpless foe?
Dear Mike Morhaime, if you happen to stumble on this post on a boring day when you’re just mindlessly surfing the web, please consider adding a severe penalty in the game to gankers. And I mean a really severe penalty. Think -500 honor points for every gank, -1000 if the toon is 20 levels lower AND you lose a purple or two. And if you could add a penalty for corpse-camping that would be awesome. Otherwise, the vicious cycle won’t end. Thanks for your time. - EGF
P.S. Got a message from good ol’ Alvin:
Dude, we’re ganking the Ally bastards that ganked you. Get back in here you’re missing the fun! Woot!
(@ Mike: see what I mean???)
*edit: should have been another class, why did I say hunter? LOL. Was probably too P.O.’d when I wrote this, I wasn’t thinking straight. Thanks, Zayda!
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James on 24 Jun 2009 at 9:59 am #
I agree 100% with EGF. As a veteran gankee, I am tired of abusive players who think that a PvP realm gives them the right to torture lower level players of the opposite faction. Maybe Blizzard can do something about this ASAP! Good job, Alvin and company for avenging your buddy.
oli on 24 Jun 2009 at 11:57 am #
The four tards who picked on you deserved to be ganked! Again and again and again.
Littlebark on 24 Jun 2009 at 7:54 pm #
I hated leveling on a pvp server for that reason. Alliance would kick my ass everytime they went by warlock and then continue to corpse camp me… and I had no friends/80’s on that server.
Maybe Blizzard could make the 20 levels below target immune to the ganker…. or something nifty along those lines.
Damn those pink pigtailed gnomes….
Lestat de Lioncourt on 27 Jun 2009 at 12:12 pm #
I would like to play on your server so I can help you gank these SOBs. I’ve been wanting to taste some good ol’ Alliance chicken soup again.
Littlebark on 13 Aug 2009 at 10:47 pm #
A 68 Gnome Hunter, a 72 Human Pally, a 64 Human Rogue and a 63 Draenei Priest ganked, abused, and corpse-camped my 49 Orc Warrior.
Re reading this… a GNOME HUNTER!???
Hax!!
Extreme Gold Fan on 13 Aug 2009 at 11:11 pm #
Haha, Zayda aka Littlebark, thanks for pointing it out. I actually placed an asterisk next to the word ‘hunter”. This Huntard (my fave class and main toon) was not thinking straight — too angry back then — when the post was being written. Should have been another class. Now can’t recall WTH he was. He was a friggin’ gnome, I can tell you that much. Oops, no offense to your Littleprick. Speaking of your little killing machine, how is she doing?
Littlebark on 18 Aug 2009 at 9:24 pm #
I was huntard before the druid class stole my heart.
So he was a gnome, leave it at that. My little killing machine is still gathering dust at level 62. Everytime she laughs/giggles it makes my teeth grind. I’ve gone back to leveling my Undead priest intead.
-.- What can I say? I’m a Hordie at heart.
Extreme Gold Fan on 19 Aug 2009 at 3:27 am #
Let me confess something: I suck at being a druid. Can’t tank or heal for sh*t. Remus hates it when I make fun of his druid. Maybe I’m just bitter.
As for other classes, heck as a rogue I’m worse. Suffice to say that stealthing is NOT my strongest suit.
Yawn, insomnia sucks too.
Littlebark on 19 Aug 2009 at 7:28 pm #
Funnily enough I can’t tank on my druid. But I can heal! It’s fun using the whole “Come dps H ToC for me or else you’re not getting healed by Littlebark in Ulduar!”
The only reason I leveled that stupid gnome is because of the Recruit a Friend thing. After I stopped getting 3x the xp, it sucked.
PS: Poor Remus’ druid D:
connor on 29 Oct 2009 at 12:12 am #
I myself play solely on pvp servers for the suspense. I personally don’t gank anything grey unless it has killed a friend of mine a few times. But I don’t body camp whatsoever. I’ve pulled a few surprises on them before. On my rogue last night some 77 elemental shaman was flying around lands right next to my 65 rogue and tries to gank me. He succeeds since I was surprised. But the next time around I beat his ass. Poor fool didn’t know how to play at all and I body camped his ass for the next 30 mins. Doesn’t happen often but it does.
Anyways enough with my bragging and what not. I think that if you gank anyone who is grey in level you should lose at least 1k honor since that should be a dishonorable kill. Secondly if you happen to do it more than 3 times in 1 hour it gets bumped up to 5k honor lost every death and that stays with you until the next day where it resets again. I’m not sure about you guys though but to me 5k honor is about 2 hours battlegrounds and isn’t worth the 2 button mash to kill a lowbie.