Please. Do that. Tell me why I still have some chars on pvp servers, and please tell me why I still play them on occasion.
I logged in on Tesz the other day. Tesz, my level 36 troll mage that I have on the Laughing Skull (pvp) server. I hadn’t played her for some time and wanted to give my hunter Cuddling some rested bonus, so I popped in to Tesz.
She was in the inn in Tarren Mill. I checked her quest log and she had quite a few quests in the area. I’ve been peeking a little on Jame’s levelling guide and he lists a lot of quests in Hillsbrad, so I had been questing a bit there and was looking forward to doing some more.
She ran out of the inn and died. A ?? stealthed druid oneshotted her. Haha, how hilarious.
Well, the graveyard run is not long in Tarren Mill. I decided Hillsbrad would not be fun to quest in today after all, so after Tesz had ressed she started casting a teleport to Orgrimmar, and then she died again.
After having played on a sweet normal server for some months now my hard-earned reflexes like “when you know gankers are about, find a safe place to ress lest you get ganked again” seems to have been lost.
Yes, it was the same ?? druid again, some sad person with a Challenger title, that had stealthed up and oneshotted her, then he shifted into cheetah and ran away from the guards.
Elapsed time since log-in: About a minute. Number of deaths, gank-related: Two. Amount of affection felt towards pvp servers and gankers in general: Zero.
Third time up I ressed inside the inn and teleported away.
I was close to deleting the char and never look back but I decided to give it a last try, and flew off to Desolace instead, and after having completed a few quests without anyone bothering met here I headed off to Arathi Highlands, where I kept questing for yet a few hours.
In fact, that entire day I saw no Alliance chars at all save that sad druid in Tarren Mill and a lvl 31 warrior in Arathi who snuck away when he saw me and Tesz was just a few hundred xp’s away from 38 when I logged out.
And to remind myself: I play on these servers because I have some friends there, both real life and in-game ones, and although I still quest a lot by myself I don’t want to lose touch with them entirely.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Remind me again why I still play on pvp servers
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Me me f**ing n00b!
So as I was playing my druid Joaquime today, and was on a flow in AV in the special AV weekend, on my sixth or so consecutive win, I was rushing down to Frostwolf Keep with some others to get and defend the grave yard and towers while the most of the crew were beating down on Galv. I came to a halt at the Frostwolf Graveyard where some horde was chasing down a gnome warrior. The warrior seemed to be on top of things and I threw him some heals to keep him alive long enough to get the job done.
Now this is me, in my catsuit, in my feral spec, healing because I can and because it seemed better to heal the warrior than go cat and dps at the time, when I suddenly get a whisper that just stops me in my tracks.
This is not something I usually encounter while bg'ing. For some reason this player has taken his time to target me, whisper me, taking care to spell noob the correct way, showing how good he is at communicating with people, and to include a profanity.
But he also forgets to include what he wants (a heal) and then he takes his time to whisper me again, adding this wish to be healed to his earlier statement.
For some reason he thinks its more important that I heal him than the warrior the two hordes are beating on.
I am at a loss of what to do, I see no other than the warrior in sight, and even if I could have seen the whisperer, his chances of getting a heal from me now is slim, to say the least. Non-existant, would be more truthful, even. Not-gonna-happen, is another way of putting it.
Anyways, the horde have reinforcements coming, the gnome warrior die, I die, and I have no idea if the unseen whisperer is dead too, and frankly I couldn't care less.
However, as I am at our grave yard, waiting to be ressed, I get another whisper from the sweet talker.
So I assume that he did die too.
He may have whispered me with more but I by this time I had welcomed him to my ignore list and was blissfully uninterrupted by hostile whispers out of the blue for the duration of that AV. We lost, by the way.
Now losses in AV do happen, but I can't help to wonder if maybe they are more frequent with players like this in them, players who actually spend time and efforts whining about things, rather than getting them done.
While in the AV, I checked him out in the bg tab, and he was listed as a shaman. So after the AV I was actually curious enough to check out this guy, and he was listed in the Armory in four different guilds (none of which had any other members than himself) and he was shown to be an elemental/resto specced shaman.
Now, last time I checked, a shaman can heal themselves pretty well, and this guy had about 750 +healing bonus. Me, in my cat gear, I have +0 healing bonus. It would have been better if he had whispered himself to get a heal. But maybe he was out of mana, in which case healing him up would be pretty useless anyways since it would mean I would have to stop healing the warrior.
This guy had netted about 3500 honorable kills in his days of playing. Me, on my druid, I have about 2300. I have not played very much BG's with her, I joined the general honor craze before TBC was released and have played a little since the Arena S1 gear became available for honor points, but that's about it. So, I am no BG expert, but I usually help get the job done without being a sad little moron like this new addition to my ignore list.
And think about the time and effort this guy spends on whispering people calling them things. Well, maybe he had never whispered anyone else and this was the first time, but somehow I get a feeling this was not the first time he did something like this.
What if he could make something useful out of that time instead? As most of us know, if you type something while fighting at the same time, both things get a little unfocused...
Ah, well, this is not really anything I wish to dwell further on. Morons and jackasses are sadly all too frequent in the WoW-universe, but at least this place has an Ignore-list.
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Sad story
My gnome warrior Dizzie is happily lvling up nowadays. She is fury specced and its one of the cutest things I have ever seen, watching her charge away to a mob and start hitting the tall ugly thing with her glowing [Phantom Blade] (made for her especially by my adorable <3 husband) and some off-hand axe.
As she hit 44 she went to Tanaris to start questing there. Picked up the wastewander water quests and the ones that lead you into Pirate Cove. You would have thought she'd be 45 within some hours with all these easy questing and the rested bonus.
Well, think again. Tanaris seemed to be filled with sad no-life coward hordes and Dizzie spent more time running from the gy than actually getting any xp.
I never attack horde players when I see them, no matter what level or what they are doing. I just leave them be.
All (and I mean all, every single one I saw) of the horde players I encountered in Tanaris that day attacked Dizzie sooner or later. If they were of about equal level they snuck off when they saw her and waited until she was already in combat before they went for her, if they were some ?? lvl helping out some lower lvls they just attacked her on sight.
An all too frequent sight in the Tanaris desert :-(
(I know I am on a pvp server and should get used to it - I started playing here because the kids were playing here and by the time I found out that there were servers that didn't allow ganking I had too many characters and too many new friends on this server to really like the idea of changing servers. I think many people are like me in this aspect.)
Dizzie has crap gear. She sucks at pvp. She generally just ambles merrily along, picking up quests and doing them cheerfully, not bothering anyone. However, this constant running from the gy was beginning to get on my nerves and I decided to get some revenge.
I logged Tessy, my rogue, flew her off to Tanaris and parked her in the Pirate Cove. She also has crap gear, she also sucks at pvp but she is a lvl 70 subtlety specced rogue, she doesn't have to be good to kill lvl 50 wankers.
And kill them she did.
Some idiot lvl 51 priest, who did see Dizzie but skulked away and didn't start dotting her until she was fighting some freeboter. Shadowstepping rogue = dead priest. He got oneshotted twice and then he got the message and disappeared.
A group of three, some lvl 65 pally helping a 43 or so warrior and mage. Killed them all once and then one-shotted the warrior and mage some times, sapping the pally when he was trying to ress them.
A moonkin druid, same lvl as Dizzie and hadn't been trying to kill her at all so I was beginning to think it might actually be a human playing and not some sad loser al-quaida hangaround. But guess what, ofc he started spamming moonfire on her when she was fighting two mobs at the same time. This particular druid I followed all the way to Steamwheedle Port and made sure he didn't get to turn in any quests. Had to run from the NPC's a few times though, but hey, so what?
And then I asked myself...did this make me any happier? The sad losers were still sad losers, they were not gonna start acting like decent human beings no matter how many times I killed them. Dizzie was still dead and not getting any xp.
No, it was definitely not making me any happier.
It is said that revenge is a dish best served cold and I think I see the meaning of that proverb now. Revenge while being pissed off is not a good thing, it only makes you feel even more saddened and disgusted.
I just don't get it. Yes, its "only" a game and yes, its "allowed" to kill characters in the game, but do you always go around doing everything just because its "allowed"? CS is a game where the only objective is to kill the enemy players, WoW is not. You don't lose anything by letting enemy players live (ofc they may be sad gankers as well and come back and try to kill you, but that is not likely if you are of a higher level).
Ok, you might wanna do it for the honor (if ofc you even get honor, guess its more than probable that some of the morons don't realise that you don't get any honor when you kill players that are grey for you). So you get what, 5 honor?, for killing me. If you want honor go play one of the bg's, more honor there than you could possibly get by killing random world encounters.
Or maybe you want to show off how good you are at killing opponents? Well, if you think that its showing off killing someone several lvls below you or someone who is already engaged in a fight, you need your head examined. Maybe the results would show that you have a brain or at least some cognitive capabilities, but I really doubt that.
I think that those who go around killing other players in have the same mentality as those who don't help people with prams or wheelchairs get on the bus, they are the same kind as those who can't be bothered to hold the door open for you but rather let it slam shut in your face - hey! it would have taken me a few secs to wait and hold the door open, cba with that!
It just saddens and disgusts me that a game I like to play so much seems to be overflowing with such rude a***holes.
It's a good thing I have met so many nice and friendly people too, otherwise I'd have no hopes left for humanity...
