Posted by Juggynaut on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 - 53 Comments
Tags: achievement, Alliance, Alt, camp, corpse camp, gank, Horde
As we all wait for Wrath of the Lich King, I’ve been doing a lot of achievement grinding. It gives me something to do other than leveling alts, and I finally got my Loremaster of Kalimdor achievement the other day. In order to complete it, I ended up having to do a few raid quests along with some rarely done quests in Silithus. I also had to nearly complete the Raene’s Cleansing quest line in Ashenvale, which provided me with the awesome Rod of Transformation to turn me into a furblog. Luckily, I was able to stop at the final step and keep the rod, allowing me to transform into a furblog whenever I please.
While grinding out the quests for this achievement, I’ve of course run accross a few low level horde who I would sometimes leave alone, but sometimes I would just have to one shot them. There’s just something fun about running by, tossing an Earth Shock and maybe a Stormstrike, killing a player without breaking stride. If they’re in my way again, they’ll probably be scared that I might do it again. Hopefully that stops them from stealing my quest objectives.
Now, Bastosa has wondered about the joy of ganking, and doesn’t see the fun in killing low level members of the enemy faction, but I do. Part of it is revenge. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been killed by horde because I was not on an even playing field with them. Either I’m half dead from killing mobs or 10 levels lower than the enemy, and I find myself dead. Of course, I won’t waste my time camping some level 30 undead warlock, but if I happen to see one, I will usually kill them. If I happen to see them again, I may kill them again.
If you’re on a PvP server, that’s what you can expect. I’m not out to ruin anybody’s night, but to give you the experience of a PvP server. I dealt with it, so you can deal with it. While I won’t just camp anybody unless they’ve done something to deserve it, such as corpse camping me, I can think of a few easy solutions. Here are a few of the things I like to do if I get camped.
Get your friends. Especially during early WotLK leveling, lots of your friends will likely be in the area and willing to help. While you’re at it, group up and blast through some quests together. A group is much less likely to get ganked than a lonely player.
Go somewhere else. You can usually find another place to level. There are a lot of areas and subzones and more quests than you’d ever need to level. Move on to the next area and come back later.
Log on an alt (or a main). Grab your other characters and get some work done on them. Or, if you’re leveling an alt, take your main and do some dailies. Maybe play the Auction House game for a while. You probably won’t get killed in the AH unless there’s some sort of plague going around.
Take a break. Make a sandwich, grab a drink, or get some errands done. While you’re out getting things done, your campers are waiting for you to come back with no idea that you’ve logged out, balanced your checkbook, and beaten Little Big Planet.
What are all of your strategies for avoiding gankers? Are you looking forward to ganking in Northrend? How often do you kill the lowbies that happen to be in your way?
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By Joe on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
I kill lowbie horde whenever I see them….it’s fun
By cjus on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
.. i cant beleave im sayign this but … first…
in my server, gankings gone way down resently
By flamearow on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
log my main and kill them most of the time
By Ananun on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Goes to show how immature the Alliance are really they take pride in ganking whats so great about it? Ever heard of a BG, Alliance is full of 10 year old twats who don’t understand the true value of a game while Horde consists of more mature players who dont spend hours on end camping corpses for fun
By cjus on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
true, but heres somethign to think about aswell. the age thing, both sides are about the same, just the 10 yearolds are camping bodys , as the older players are off leveling or something.
By ThoMage on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
i dont gank mainly because it will then be an evil circle wich i will NOT participate in… or will I?
i have done some major ganking on Isle of Quel’Danas… but i think that is partly legel, revival of the world pvp and so on, but most ppl just dont like the feeling of being the weak or the vulnerable…
dudes… gankers have been vulnerable once… therefor they gank!
By Allenok on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
HA! Ananun, apparently youve never played the other side, Horde corpse camp just as much as allies do. On my Realm the number of 10yr olds is much greater on the horde side.
The way I deal with ganking?… I play on a PvE server, you’d be suprised how rarely I get ganked. You should try it.
By Zeck on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
I’m a Paladin and on a PvE server but there are the rare times when i just have to kill a lowbie who has pvp on… that’s of course the time a full brutal guy comes round the corner :/ i bubble and try to run, and if that doesn’t work i try to out run him…
2 days till lich king, yay!
By getsu on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
You’re going to get idiots if you play alliance or horde, its not a faction thing. I play alliance and get ganked by horde and camped by higher lvls constantly for no apparent reason.
But if you have a problem with it, or are going to get stressed about it, either get used to it or switch to a pve server. remember YOU CHOSE a pvp server, dont QQ about your own choice. They have bgs on both types of servers.
I wish blizzard would somehow let you PK people of your own faction, they usually annoy me just as much as the opposing faction, cause they can talk like idiots about anything (*cough*tradechannel*cough*) and trash talk you/about you and you can’t do anything but /ignore them. it gives me more satisfaction being able to send them to the GY and have to run back to their bodies.
as for avoiding gankers.. i usually don’t, i gank back (if possible). But if you are getting stressed about it.. take a break, its a game, enjoy yourself, if you’re not, then stop and cool off
By Scaper on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Lol Ananun, i play on the Horde side and even i find that comment Bull.. We Horde gank just as much and there just as many 10 year olds, Apperantly you’ve never PuG’d on your server,
By brightwings on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
I attempt to get away as a hunter i kite them until im in a safe place and as i have epic land mount now i can lay trap readiness and lay another one FD mount and then im gone
By Kyndranigar on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
How the hell did you get Loremaster of Kalimdor on Alliance? I’m at ~ 670 quests and have only Un’Goro and Silithus left to re-check. (I have the low level search on in my minimap and have scoured all the quest hubs from Teldrassil over to Wintersping and down, Zone by Zone (and I’ll be damned if I’m going into Maraudon again in my life))
By Spudnik on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
I usually just log and read up on Prject Lore ^^
By toque on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Furblogs FTW!
By Zeb on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
“Part of it is revenge. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been killed by horde because I was not on an even playing field with them. Either I’m half dead from killing mobs or 10 levels lower than the enemy, and I find myself dead. ” juggy see juggy do
By Fruma on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
“Goes to show how immature the Alliance are really they take pride in ganking whats so great about it? Ever heard of a BG, Alliance is full of 10 year old twats who don’t understand the true value of a game while Horde consists of more mature players who dont spend hours on end camping corpses for fun”
Hmm. By posting this you are kind of contradicting your statement, you know.
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Well I noticed that in order to avoid ganking in contested areas, a lot of lowbies bring bored, high-level guildie friends with them to scare people and power level. Two in one.
And I’ve ganked people myself, but I never set out to do it. The only time I’ll gank someone is if it’s on my way when I’m doing something else.
I did corpse-camp a warlock once after we had a 1vs1 battle. We were the same level. It was more like a victory dance that lasted 2 minutes than anything else.
(:
By Shaunior on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Everyone always says that the Alliance is this or the Horde is that. Fact is, it’s fucking split even right down the middle. There are assholes on both sides. On every server.
As for avoiding being ganked, I usually /bow, /hug, or /wave. This works *surprisingly* well.
I have yet to be corpse camped, knock on wood, but if I was, I would just log off. There’s plenty of other things I can be doing.
By Reeper on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
READ AND FOR GOODNESS SAKES, FINALLY GET IT!
The thing about ganking lowbies is this, if your on a PVE server then obviously you cant gank or be ganked. If your ganking or getting ganked then YOUR ON A PVP SERVER! If you play on a pvp server then expect to kill or be killed. Thats the whole point of a pvp server. The thrill and fear that while questing and farming you may encounter a player from the opposite faction.
Thats the whole point of it. If it wasnt then play pve. I honestly HAVE NEVER understood ANYONE that can QQ over being camped, ganked etc.. while playing a pvp server.
Its so illogical to complain about it , makes me want to slap someone upside the head and shout “WAKE THE F UP AND GET THE DAMN POINT OF A PVP SERVER”.
Seriously, if someone has a better reason for playing a pvp server that doesnt involve the actual pvp-ness of it and has a good reason for not getting ganked. Let me know please. But it doesnt exist. And dont say that ganking a player x amount of levels lower then you doesnt make sense, is cruel and interupts leveling. If you dont want leveling interupted, play a damn pve server. Hell, level on pve and pony up the 25.00 to xfer to pvp. Then at a high level you might understand.
In closing REMEMBER.
PVP IS JUST THAT. FOR KILLING EACHOTHER REGARDLESS OF LEVEL.
PVE= EASY FARMING, GRINDING, LEVELING ETC..
STOP BEING A NOOB AND DEAL WITH IT OR GET YOUR QQing ASS OUT OF MY PVP NEIGHBORHOOD.
yes, caps were necessary. CAUSE IM SCREAMING MAD ABOUT THIS.
By PatrickD on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
I can honestly say that I’ve never ganked a Horde player. I HAVE killed some (including outside battlegrounds), but have never been the one to initiate the kill…until last night.
I was in Feralas doing a quest where I had to free a bunch of creatures. As part of this, I have to kill a lot of mobs that are trying to keep the creatures from escaping. There I am, minding my own business when a Blood Elf who is two levels lower than me runs into the middle of my battle. Now, I’m pretty sure there’s a Horde quest to kill these folks too, so I’d be perfectly happy to let him kill some of these and help me complete the quest. Unfortunately, my pet had other ideas.
I think what happened was the Blood Elf mistook my bear for one of the shaman in bear form. Honest mistake, really…so when he hit my bear, my bear hit back. Oops.
In the end, he died…as did all the mobs. He didn’t rez right away, probably afraid I was corpse camping. After my quest, I headed back to a nearby ridge to watch. He came back and eventually started killing the mobs on his own. I left him alone, but eventually decided to send my bear in to attack a mob here and there to help.
Eventually he went on his way. Then I completed another quest and went on my way as well. I ended up riding past him on a road later, but was moving too fast to wave in time.
I wish I could remember the guy’s name.
By Endomorth on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
I like to move my main to the area im levelling my alts so should I find myself dead at the hands of any Alliance char my Hunter can log in to track them down and enact vengeance
By Manse on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Hehe, my old guild would always take getting ganked as an excuse for a mass alliance bloodfest, if one of us got ganked then 20 or more guildies would hop on a FP and come ge their own back, offense is the best defence
By Jyorore on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
What I don’t understand is how you guys know the age of the people ganking you, seeing as on PvP servers, you can only have characters from one faction. Camping on whatever side happens, horde or alliance.
Generally, if you don’t like getting ganked (and in turn, doing the ganking) Then there are plenty of pve servers available to you.
By RabidWookie on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
I personally like the idea of Lake Wintergrasp coming with WotLK because while I dont mind when someone kills me and i choose to fight back, but if im trying to do something and you corpse camp for an hour or two I get frustrated. Thats why I got my main mage off of Vashj an onto Nordrassil
By Red on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
I’m a Rogue. Its in my nature to gank.
But none of that lowbie crap.
Grow some balls and fight people your own lvl. :/
By Bastosa on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Nice Juggy, so you are that guy?
Every once in a while I’ll pop a lowbie too… I don’t really mind that. My issue was primarily with corpse camping.
That being said I like your strategies… there is something even more satisfying about being camped by some douchebag horde, getting up and getting on with life for w while, then coming back 30 minutes later and they are still there!
When that happens you have won, because they are just pathetic.
By kiley on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
best thing that happened to me was when i jumped on the isle of quel danas right after a gruuls run with my guild and got ganked by 5 hordies, they tried to camp my body…until they saw 24 guildies coming there way
it was a kodak moment. Sticking with friends or guildies is the easiest way to avoid being ganked imo.
By Alayea on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Never ganked anyone myself, but my twin did on one occasion. See, there was this Alliance player who had turned on his PvP flag and then stood on top of a quest NPC on the Isle of Quel’danas. So if any Horde player (my twin included) tried to click on the quest giver, he/she would end up attacking the Alliance guy and end up getting killed by the guards. That jerk was told to move time and again, but he refused. In the end, it took nearly all of the Horde players on IQD — trust me, there weren’t *that* many there — to kill the Alliance guy. Because he was responsible for all of those skeletons that surrounded the quest giver, you can understand how the Horde would be feeling rather vindictive… The Allie was then corpse camped for the next half-hour or so when my faction felt that the message had sunk in.
By Zeke on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
I kill horde when i see then…lets just call it payback…cause it fells so good
By Jerg on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
While leveling my shammy ( alliance ) I would keep my lvl 70 hunter near the town my shammy is leveling in, any time I get ganked, I log on my hunter and kill them, tea bag there body and log on my shammy if they so happen to have the nerve to kill me again i just rinse and repeat and ,nobody ( near my shammys level) can beat me did i hear some1 say frost shock?? O.o
By Justin on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
I used to gank low lvls until i started getting ganked on my alts and saw how annoying it was… also love how ppl think there “first” at posting when there not like on this one:P
By James on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
I find the concept of PVE servers to be boring too since the forced cease-fire is so artificial. But likewise, just because I play on a PVP server doesn’t mean that I *have* to go stark raving mad whenever I see a Horde player running by. It’s kind of like the Schindler’s List philosophy. I see a Horde and I know that I could kill him–especially if he’s a little 30. However, instead I just let him go. “I pardon you.”
As for logging out to go do something else while taking glee in thinking that poor sap is waiting there for you… it doesn’t always work. Why? Because there is a way to know if an opposing player has logged out *gasp!* Next time that you want to find out if a player of the opposing faction is online try inviting them to your group. “/i someguy” If it tells you that the player is unfriendly, then he is probably standing there in ghost form waiting for you to go away. If it says that the user is offline then… well, he’s offline and might not come back online for a long while. Either that or he’s POed and his main is moments away from jumping you.
By matt on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
lol one time i ran into this horde when i was a lowbie and he just kept ganking me torchering me and camping me and when i got to 70 i ran into him again he made no efort to lvl since he ganked me and i killed him set a campfire and sat with a pickinic basket and i got the ultamite payback
By Jake on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
I will admit that If I am in a horde ridden area, I will 1 shot the lowbies with a PoM Pyro and just keep moving. But on my server, the horde just camp your body. They will kill you, wait for you to rez, and corpse camp you till you get so frustrated that force quitting wow just feels necessary. Some of my toons are outgeared by the ganker.. I get it, now Quit it!
By Alexis Knapp on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
If its red, its dead.
By Daemonbane on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
EVIL!
By Danethil on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
I play on a pve server so normally don’t see much ganking going on. However, there was a blood elf mage who had attacked some guards in the Burning Steppes during the Fire Festival. Because she was flagged I went after her. She kept popping blink and I kept using sprint. The chase lasted from Morgan’s Vigil almost to Redridge.
Dead mages tell no tales.
(rogues ftw!)
By Voxx on Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 at 12:01 am
Well since they are making twinks obsolete in WotLK I cant use my old tactic of counter ganking. Which consisted of logging onto my twinks and raping some bg’s.
By Voxx on Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 at 12:15 am
in my experience i get gang banged by 2-4 allies while grinding. So i will go out of my way to ruin anyone who plays alliance entire day. I’ll call in favors, bribe other players, anything to exact my vengence.
there was a time when i would leave some alone if they left me alone…but Too many times ive turned around to see 5 f’kers in the same guild come up and camp me for half an hour.
so now, F em all. and if i cant get my vengence on that particular player i go to arathi highlands and murder everything there, then i move to southshore and from there i move to redridge and lake shire. ive spent hours ruining ppls lives in red ridge and it was EXTREMELY satisfying. and then wen predictably 20 or so 70s show up from storm wind i let them kill me and go watch tv while they sit there waiting for me to rez.
now i would probably hate horde as much as i presently hate alliance if i were to play alliance but i dont, because i hate the god damn alliance.
By Uesegi on Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 at 1:26 am
I play on a PVE server, so i don’t gank that much. Only if i find a lower lvl player who is taking out quest givers. I have done this more than once, and because it’s annoying to have to wait for a quest giver to respawn, i have no problem corpse camping them (if they dont leave PvP before they rez).
By eatem on Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 at 6:07 am
i play on pvp server and the joy of gankin isnt fun but if they trying to kill my quest oblectives i gank them if they res and try again i gank them.. i never log my main on if i get ganked unless they do it over 3 times then my main comes and kills all in my path.. it a vicious circle on pvp servers you kill them they kill you you bring main kill them they bring main kill you.. it happens and on pvp server genrally happens mid afternoon till 10pm then it very quite due to the fact most chi9ldren are off to bed yes the kid word we all hate to say butr it is a childs game with adults playing and we too have our evil side when it red it dead:P
By Ntieoen on Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 at 6:17 am
Having levelled to 70 on both pve and pvp,
I can safely say there is more than just being a cocky pvp-addict to be playing on a pvp realm.
Perhaps you have friends on that server?
Maybe for simpler questing?
On a pvp server everybody is more inclined to quest in groups to help avoid being ganked.
There is joy in one gank, not zerglings on corpse farm.
Even levelling the opposite faction will occasionally help.
I remember after tbc release when everybody was racing to 70,
during ring of blood a 5-man group of alliance players helped my group while we helped them, no snuck in ganks for either group.
By friskydingo on Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 at 6:37 am
you know, i never complain about ganking when i get ganked by someone 3 levels higher than me or the same level, bc that actually takes skill. now if u gank me once and im so many levels below you. ok thats fine, ur running by. but people who sit and camp you, now that to me isnt pvp. thats making your epenis feel bigger. its the same as talking trash to people bc u dont feel good about yourself. now yes i usually just get overit, take a break, then go lvl somewhere else, but the only time i hate it is lvling from 30-50 bc unless i go to desolace, anywhere i go is ganksville. now lvling in winterspring can also be a pain in the ass, bc for some reason more ally gank there than the plaguelands so its nice to go somewhere else. but ganking to me is pvp, but not camping. gank me up to 3 times i under stand its funny, gank me 5-10…..and this is saying something since we all play wow……get a life.
By friskydingo on Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 at 6:43 am
oh and i use the keep my main near by in case anyone decides to start camping, now i love pvp servers so a pve server isnt really the best choice for me, just i do get frustrated when it comes to lvling. so no matter how much i hate corpse camping, i do agree with the people who tell us to stop qqing about it, yes it sux but generally getting friends or ur own main to do something about it can be a solution. oh and pve servers shouldnt be called carebear servers. a carebear server would be a server where u could walk into stormwind and have a teaparty with the alliance and all play some jolly good games….lol
By Sylvester on Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 at 8:04 am
I find it funnier ganking people on my own level rather then killing level 40 players but i know that it’s just me
By Strikir on Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 at 10:08 am
I kill lowbies if i happen to come across them, not always sometime i am feeling nice and i will just /wave but most of the time they will end up dead. I don’t camp unless I was being camped before.
When i am with 2 or more people we usually will kill any and all Alliance we see, even if they are higher level.
To avoid/get away from people camping me i usually just get some guildmates to come and help or I will just get up get something to eat/drink and then by the time i come back they are far enough away for me to rez and get out of that area.
Since i am starting a DeathKnight in Wrath I am expecting a lot of people wanting to kill me from the start, however I will be with 2 other people the whole way up to 70 at least so I am hoping with others with me we won’t have to worry about it too much, at least until that first crazy guy hits 80 in 24 hours….lol
By Zamzil on Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 at 10:44 am
I usually let people at lower levels be, although sometimes my finger’s might slip. However if I see a player in my own level range, that I think I might stand a chance at, I often charge in and hope for the best. That’s why I chose a PvP realm
A rather embarrassing thing happened to me the other night. I was in stranglethorn, questing on my alt, when I came across a draenei. I started emoting her, and we had a nice time emoting each other for a while. A couple of minutes afterwards she went back to killing mobs, and I thought I should show my good will and help her.
Said and done, pressed ‘T’ and started hurling shadowbolts. On my last shadowbolt though, I discovered I had not targetet the crocolisk she was fighting, but in fact her.. And so she died and I felt ashamed.
By Splive on Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 at 11:33 am
I’m a non-ganker.
My thought is this - I’m trying to have fun playing a game. If I kill someone much lower level than me, I’ve just taken away their fun. They have no chance of killing me, and little chance of avoiding death (epic mounts are hard to stay away from). On the other hand, I get maybe a little bit of satisfaction from seeing how bad ass my character is. It seems to me that the minor satisfaction of one shotting someone doesn’t stack up to the inconvenience they experience of that long graveyard run. I’d rather run up to them and sheep/snare/fear them…give them a bit of a scare, then go off and do something more productive.
That being said, I do play on a PvP server and restrict my complaints of being ganked to the 3rd or 4th time. It’s not the fact that I was killed…it is a PvP server after all. It’s the fact that the human being on the other end is either too ignorant to realize they are making someone else’s life less enjoyable, or too malicious to care.
Really, ganking is a part of the game. If people want to kill lowbies when they run across them, go for it. If people want to log in and hunt down lowbies for a few hours each night, then I think they need to analyze why they get so much pleasure out of being a douchebag…but they are still entitled to play the game by the rules that Blizz has defined.
By Claxo on Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 at 11:55 am
When I’m wanting to avoid being ganked, I tend to do something in an uncontested territory or find a group and run an instance. However, being on a PvP server means that getting ganked is a part of WoW life. If I can down the ganker first, all the better. I remember once when, on my Alliance main, I ‘traded’ kills with a Hordie for a better part of an hour out in Hellfire Penninsula while leveling. I had fun and I think he did as well. I’ve also had those moments of being corpse camped. If I didn’t feel like making the corpse hop back to a town, I’d log out and go do something else.
When it comes to being the ganker, now that I’m 70, I’ve found it to be rather fun. I don’t corpse camp unless its while in a raid group and we’re destroying a town, where such a thing can’t be helped. Otherwise, it all depends on whether or not I’m busy with something else if I’ll kill some random low level Horde I come across. If I’m not in a hurry, I’ll generally DoT them up and follow them long enough to watch them drop. Then its back to whatever it was I was doing.
Now to address some of the things I’ve read not only here, but on other forums, blogs, chat channels, etc. First off, if you are on a PvP server, you will get ganked. You will get corpse camped. More than one day will be ruined by these things. You have every right to be upset about it. You also have every opportunity to do something about it; including playing on a PvE server. What irritates almost everyone is that your venting about it has been done to death. If you don’t like the negative responses you get for it, then don’t do it.
Secondly, I can understand the whole ‘For the Horde’ or ‘For the Alliance’ mentality players get having spent countless hours playing in that particular faction. But seriously, there are idiots playing in both factions. If you’re playing an Alliance toon, getting corpse camped by some idiot Horde player, you can rest assured that statistically, at that exact moment, somewhere else on the server, some Horde toon is getting corpse camped by an idiot Alliance player. And trust me when I say that these idiots can be a lot older than 10 years of age. I’ve met some of them in real life.
Anyhow, everyone have fun Nov. 13th!
By Izaya on Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Resto Shammy’s never die
By horde gankers on Thursday, November 20th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
thats the biggest lie ever horde dont gank!!!.
im on a pvp server
and since i rolled a DK i havent been able to bairly move due to every horde child that see’s me feels the need to attack me.
even if im fighting a monster the horde noob will come right next to me attack me while im attackign the monster.
im on a pvp server where there are 20 horde to every 1 alliance.
lvling has been a joke.
its as if these so called “mature horde”
are so pittiful they will stop lvling at all just to wait over your corrpse.
yeh i agree allot of alliance are kiddies but so are horde.
the only differents is horde have more 40 year old virgins
By Illuminora on Sunday, December 21st, 2008 at 10:15 am
I have a 75 blood elf mage on Rexxar, a PvE server, and I’m a pretty damn good mage. I admit to wanting to experience WoW on my first character without having to constantly look over my shoulder for the opposing faction, but there have been a few times when I’ve wished it was a PvP server instead LoL. But, I am a battleground addict, and I’m a “squishy” so I do expect to die–quite frequently. Glass Cannon, that’s me.
Right after WotLK came out, I ran into another one of those times I wished I was on a pvp server instead: my friend and I were trying to do an escort quest in Nagrand on our death knights and this alliance jackass decided to camp the escort NPC and kill it everytime we would start up the quest. We finally gave up after about 10 trys, but kept checking back every once in awhile. That sucker camped the escort Npc for THREE hours. Now really ….talk about “get a life”. My friend and I tried to get him to turn on his Pvp flag but he was too cowardly, heh.
The only time I’ve had an issue with any sort of “ganking” or corpse camping is in the BG’s. Call me weird, but I’m one of those people who enjoys playing a bg the way it was intended–by the rules of the bg. (i.e. actually capturing the flags in Warsong instead of camping the opposite faction’s graveyard so the bg lasts 2+ hrs…or hey..even taking the time to build up defenses at Frostwolf Village and raising Loki in Alterac Valley…) but it’s really rare to get in a bg where the majority of players want to do that. While I love testing my skills against other players, sometimes it does get extremely frustrating. Once, I got camped by a human warrior in Arathi Basin, just after I hit 70. It was a typical Zerg-match (alliance zergs while horde runs behind them and retakes but leaves no defense so alliance just zergs it again…*sigh* horde are idiots in BG’s, I admit it LoL) and this guy just decided i was going to be his sole target the entire match *Gah*. No matter which base I respawned at, he was there killing me the sec I poofed back into existence. I finally had to hide in the Mine for the remainder of the bg to get away from him LoL. Now where’s the fun in that?
By Dragzeez on Thursday, April 16th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
reading this made my night the end was pretty damn funny
By Azrius on Saturday, June 27th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Usually I’ll just log on to an alt, or bring my main around to the area that I’m getting ganked if I’m really dead set on playing WoW. Otherwise, I’ll just find something else to do if I encounter one of the extremely persistent gankmonkeys.