why raid citys?Follow

why would u peep wana raid orgrimmar, undercity or thunderbluff, i mean its really pointless and causing people alot of pain, they are all harmless (and usally on my server, who ever dared going into orgrimamr gets farmed for honor by 10 lvl 60s) but really why would u raid other places when we did nothing 2 u (probobly somthin like farm u or sumthin) but really, tell me just wana kno^^

Because it's fun.

And for example, if there's an Alliance raid on Orgrimmar, it doesn't mean anything if you aren't flagged for PVP. If you're Horde, they can't hurt you unless you're flagged.

It's already been said: world PvP is part of World of Warcraft. Occasional raids into major cities keep things interesting. You'll also find a lot of higher-level people tend to hang around the major cities anyway, so they can still repel invasions, and with linked city chat, reinforcements can come from the other cities.

I'd rather get them attacking a major city (except perhaps Darnassus- it's usually almost devoid of high-level players, and takes too long to fly to) than attacking the lowbie areas. I've seen high-level Horde raids on Sentinel Hill in Westfall of all places. They sit there and camp all the NPCs, including the quest givers, or kill the Defias Traitor over and over again, making it impossible for questing players to complete their quests. I've also seen raids into Auberdine during low server population periods- basically choosing one of the towns which is least likely to face opposition in. As soon as a few 60 Alliance arrive, they disappear.

Let's not forget the Alliance-side raids either, most commonly the Crossroads of all places. It takes longer to get to from Orgrimmar than Razor Hill, so gives Alliance players that raid towns more time to have fun at the expense of the people trying to quest there. I've also seen one small raid into Bloodhoof Village in Mulgore, but that takes a long time to get to- you have to pass Xroads to get to it. I did see a raid on Brill once- only 10 Alliance, and it's close to Undercity, so the people that planned it gave up rather quickly when a large mass of lvl 60s showed up. I was on an undead character that time, and one guy thought it funny to keep killing the NPC I needed to turn my quests in to. The biggest raids I ever saw was a 30-man Horde raid on Darnassus around 9-10pm server time, guaranteeing not many 60s would come right away, and a 40-man Alliance PUG raid on Xroads.

World PvP is part of the game, whether you're on a PvE server or PvP. How much of it affects you depends largely on whether you flag or not, especially if the raids are on friendly ground (which they usually are). As has been mentioned, you could always just move to another location until the carnage has been completed.

Edited, Today 9:41am by Wondroustremor

Meh - XR is a direct flight from Org. Astranaar - the favourite Horde target on Uldum - only has one flight connection - to Auberdine, an even lower level town. Ah well.
Town raids are just fun, especially when you get 2 decent sized groups of sixties going at each other. It's the way Alterac Valley used to be before it became an honor farm.

Why cry about people killing you and your townsfolk, when this is your sig?



Hmmm... If you look at line #2 there... and #3... you've answered your own question.. don't like it? Switch sides...

There's also that whole +honor for killing faction leaders. Say your horde buddies attack Darnassus; Not only is it a nice break from the normal raids, if you kill high priestess what'sherface, you all get +honor. Maybe not much, seeing as it's divided by about twenty of you, but it's still +honor.

And, of course, it's fun. Last time I saw a major raid of Darn, I had a ball collecting screen shots of me dancing with some level 60 undead. Then there's all the whining on the general chan. You'd think they hadn't realized yet that all the NPCs will respawn in a couple minutes.

But seriously. You're not so ignorant to assume only Alliance does city raids, right? You do realize both sides do it equally, correct?

couple weeks ago bout 15/20 horde arrived in Ironforge on Dethecus, and just lived in the AH, they would all die, then rez up aoe kill all the people in there and the auctioneres. then die and do it again. i swear they were there for 2 hours. was great fun! (i was on the alliance blasting blizzard into the ah it's like shooting fish in a barrel)

This is a part of world of warcraft I don't get. A bunch of people getting together to kill NPCs in a town that generally doesn't have any high level people like astrannar, thesslamar, or sentenal hill.

PVP is important, but don't you think you should be fighting players? not NPCs. especially with the new honor system.

The last raid on astrannar led to retailation from the alliance on crossroads. In both battles did not involve any players from the opposing team. Seems kind of pointless if you have a party of 5 level 60 chars and you aren't fighting the guards and at least a couple players.

Well i raid cities for one simple reason TO kill all horde that i see. I dare any horde to step in front of me flaged. IM from the zuljin server Look for a pally named Lburna.


I give a shout-out to all my horde killin Alliance


Edited, Dec 12th 2006 11:57am by DeboLburna

there are a few quests of course that involve killing NPCs in the opposing faction areas. The Alliance 'Barov' quest comes to mind. Typically players kill NPC's to try and get things rolling though. Why? I don't know, maybe to bring back old memories of Orc Vs Human Warcraft games of past. Just something more to do. I'm not sure about PvP servers (probably always flagged there), but on regular sevrers just don't flag by attacking them and they can't kill you. Just one more aspect of the game.

Now when we went in to kill Alexi Barvo we automatically flag because he is PVP, and of course the Horde came in and waited till we were distracted with that and killed us. But after we ressurected, I think they realised what we were doing and left us be.

I really don't see the sport on a normal PVE server where you and 4 buddies all lvl 60 go arround killing NPCs in astrannar especially killing venders and quest guys that are hard to agro.

There are 2 things I noticed.

1) They never attack the level 55 elites. Whimps.

2) They don't stick around when real players show up.

If you are going to do PVP fight a player. When the players show up, don't run back to Duratar.