Hopefully coming in WoD: /nopvpFollow

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/11422312838?page=9#161



About.

Farking.

Time.

Why, again, did it take 9 freaking years to implement this?

This would (or will) be awesome. I love PvP, I enjoy PvP, world PvP is fun, but I don't like PvP when I'm trying to do other things that aren't PvP. It's one thing if you're on a PvP realm and expect to happen, it's another thing when you're mindlessly doing your dailies and suddenly find some pouncing on you because they found some trick/exploit/whatever that flags you either unintentionally or completely without you realizing it.

Can't get here soon enough, good riddance.

Blizz said they don't want to "over-complicate" things and they don't want players to have to learn two entire rulesets, they don't want abilities doing 1 thing in PvE and 1 thing in PvP as that essentially creates a whole copy of your character's abilities, with new rules to memorize.

So yeah, I doubt we'll ever get that.

And, frankly, I'd argue that it's more confusing. PVP and PVE require such different mindsets that abilities that do the same thing in both environments have a DRASTICALLY different utility. Abilities you adore and use constantly for PVE sustained DPS might be useless in PVP, because of the need for burst. On the other hand, abilities that you mostly use as filler for your rotations, because they offer low sustained dps, might be great for PVP (particularly if they add something like a snare, or a DoT, etc.)

I remember back before closed spec days, when Warlocks would be tossing out every single DoT effect they could in PVP, even if that would have been a solid dps loss in PVE. Because the ability to cause mass mayhem far outweighed the fact that it wasn't the best possible damage.

These scenarios are reduced by that abomination of a talent system they've adopted, but they still exist.

PVP servers were fun back in Vanilla. They stopped being fun in BC, when everyone was in the same zones and crowded into similar areas because of dailies, heroics, etc.

I remember some really awesome world PVP videos. I also remember how it was an "exploit" to use terrain to your advantage.

One thing I miss? Stopping by to watch part of the 8 hour Druid vs. Druid duels.

I miss those. Or in my case it was resto druid and holy priest. Eventually people showed up for the raid and we called it quits. But what's a better way to blow a half hour?