Lowbie - ZOMG - kill it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Follow

Am I the only one that, when glancing at the title, keeps thinking that it says "ZOMBIE - kill it"?

Well the zombie apocalypse will inevitably happen after all, so I'm sure those threads will pop up eventually

On topic, the only "fix" I can think of for pvp servers and low lvl ganking, is to just place a limit on how far someones lvl can be under yours to be able to attack them (unless they attack you, of course). That way it would still have that world pvp feel when you're out questing and come across people of the opposing faction doing the same, but without worry of a high lvl coming along and 1shotting you for 100x your max health

But was it honorable - no.



Then you've obviously not read any of my discussions of PvP then - I suck at it - plane and simple. I have gotten somewhat better over the years so while I wont put myself in the bottom 20% anymore I wouldn't put myself at the tail end of the top 50% either.



Seeing as how you're what the PvP server folks call the "care bear server" type I don't see you as really being qualified to talk here.

Remember kid, this isn't a prepared setting where you get the chance to swap mindsets from PvE to PvP and you've got everything ready and set up on a toon built for PvP with all the shiny toys. This is you're minding your own business and someone jumps you. Sure, you know you're in the bad part of town so you can't say you're surprised that it happened, however, it's usually a surprise when it happens.



*yawn* Learn to read Theo - I made it pretty clear that when the odds were even I didn't win because I was some leet PvP geek, I won because the other guy sucked worse then I do. Whether that was due to the lack of knowledge of his class (which you'll note was emphasized) or his lack of experience at PvP (the fact I was his first HK means he's never even taken this toon to a BG) or a combo of the two, I don't know.



You might want to remove the line "You're the kind of person" if you're not aiming it at someone who made it abundantly clear that he wasn't that kind of person then.

So in addition to learning to read please learn to write as well.



No clue what you're talking about with the former, as for the latter well, idiots are idiots.



Here's a quarter, buy a clue Theo.

There's a big difference between the two of us and that's that I'm willing to actually give the PvP server a go.

The twinks claimed that they were only twinking for the thrill of fighting the best of the best and when Blizz gave them their own twink servers they all retired the toons because not being able to gank folks who didn't stand a chance wasn't any fun for them.

So now I've set up on a PvP server to test the claims of those folks that they really are these heroic warriors engaging each other in honorable world combat and not simply a bunch of gankers who'll only jump someone if the person is lower then them, wounded, outnumbered or otherwise at a severe disadvantage.

Put your money were your mouth is boy - you've got just shy of three weeks with nothing to do in game so roll a toon up on a PvP server and do it via world/quest XP like I am and not simply hiding in the instance/BG queue till you ding 80.

Then once you've had that joy tell me that my assessment so far of PvP servers is wrong. ;-P

It's just a name. As you acknowledged, you can get HKs by 'dishonourable' means. It's just a handy name for a mechnaic designed to remove any incentive, save enjoyment, from camping low level characters.

The point is a sense of constant danger and war. You don't get this if you never attack people in any situation apart from that of utter preparedness. You are not meant to be prepared; it is supposed to be spontaneous. I shouldn't have to point out the idiot strawman ("only attack") or the other idiot fallacy (engaging in asymmetric combat makes you bad how, exactly?), but maybe this has been enlightening for you.

You clearly don't get it - that's fine. Just stop crying about it and we're cool.

The constant fear of being mercilessly faceraped by a random high level is the charm of being on a PvP server. It separates the sheep from the sheeple. You either get paranoid and aneurysms, or you get better.

Been on PvP servers since Vanilla, but I've also played a little on PvE servers. The first time I saw a "yellow" dancing inside the enemy village, I decided that it wasn't what I was looking for.

Red means dead.

I am new to all this, but isn't there rules to this? It is not considered a bannable offense to ruin someones enjoyment of the game?

Personally once I am high level I will not kill a lowbie, it should make you feel embarresed. It would equivalent of me in real life to pick a fight with someone in grade 1. You should be ashamed.

I would have hoped there would be some form of pvp etiquette, but I guess not. Last night I was in an area where a group of 80's went around killing all the people questiong, all the npcs so people couldn't do quests etc, it was kind of pathetic of them. I guess blizzard never thought of putting in some type of measure that you can't attack someone x amount of levels below you unless flagged?

PvP servers sound like fun, thats why I moved to one with my friend on it, but seems a bit of a mess until you get to 80.

I hate leveling and I've got 6 ******* 80's...
On PvP servers you either find a PvP solution or you're **** out of luck and *GASP* you might have to go do somtheing else for 15 minutes.

Oh yeah, and you know how often I've been ganked by higher levels while leveling 3 characters from 1 to 80, a DK to 73, my shaman from 75-80, a warrior from 1-62 and some other random characters on a PvP server?
Less than 20 times for sure, it might even be countable on both hands. That probably cost me less time in corpseruns than Rusttle spent whining and moaning about it in this thread alone.

So in short: get over yourself you ****.